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Show BIRD TRAVEL FALLING OFF Matron at Railroad Station Notes tho Passing of a Custom. "A heavy falling off In bird travel la notlcc-ablo notlcc-ablo of late." said Mrs. IxjuIso Schull, union depot matron, this morning. "I am trying to reason out tho caueo of It." "Bird travol?" asked tho ono addressed. "Birds migrate by wing and not on railroad tlckots. Whut do you mean?" "Tho birds did not ray fare, but they traveled trav-eled by rail extensively, Just tho &amo," tho matron replied. "At ono tlmo nearly every woman that boarded or disembarked from a railway train carried In addition to thrco grips two or threo cages of parroto or canarlea. No woman seemed to think of travollng without a ldrd cage or two. Now a bird cngo is seldom seen. Good Bcnse, probably, has banlHhed the birds to the caro of the housekeeper or to the boarding avlnry whllo their mistress travols.'' Kans-os City Star. |