Show 1 ELLA ELLS WHEELER WILCOX WILCO tJ I i off off- Protecting the Birds Boys Birds Boys Should Be Taught Not Notto Notto J to Shoot Shook Them and Schools and Mothers I Should Combine to This End I By 1 ELLA LLA WHEELER WILCOX X Copyright Wf 1913 by Star Sta Company Compan I EAR kEAR FRIEND permit DEAR us ua to call calI your Jour attention to a I great eat and serious evil now menacing our insect eating birds birda Millions of ot small birds in mi migration are destroyed yearly Jearly b by the tim people of the I. I southern Bouthern states and used as food This 4 I destruction tion now now increasing is having ing serious serious' effect on OD tho numbers of fit on ng I birds in the north Ne Negroes are armed frith guns CUDS and many are arc proficient in other othor means of destruction In tho the north also lar largo to numbers o of foreign laborers coming from Europe kill small birds for fog food It is only recently that little birds birds were sold in large 14 I quantities in Now vow York City and ami thoy they i are still sold Bold by b- thousands s in the south r. r The The Audubon societies which have havo j already checked tho the killing of native I I birds bird for millinery purposes now pure pur- ur- ur poso Dose to stop the tho elau slaughter of son song I birds buds k for food In n this thie country This is is a stupendous task tal It must bo ho done dona by byi i educating tho the public through the tho schools the pre press s and the clergy and b by securing bettor better laws and by bv iSET- iSET TER ENFORCE ENFORCEMENT fENT OP OF OF THE i LAWS WS now on the statute books boob The scarcity of or robins bluebirds and bobolinks bobolinks bob bob- is b becoming noticeable wide areas Will ViII you not help us us to the best of your jour ability to top atop the slaughter which is now depleting depicting our fields and amI woody wood of feathered song song- A word of encouragement will frill willbo bo ho ap appreciated r Yours Fours IT T. T GILBERT GILBIRT er PEARSON r Secretary This Letter Should Reach Eve Every Man and Eve Every Woman This letter ought to reach the tho heart and the tho brain of every cery man and anel woman woman woman wom wom- an of common sense and anel common son eon in our O land and It ought to reach the hearts of ot mothers of young sons SODS who have havo arrived nr- nr I rived at an ago where they want to express their manly qualities by using a gun SUn Air uns are arc only a a. loss lose menacing men men- acing MiDA in in tho the hands bands of young lads than revolvers in in the tho hands hand of gunmen n. n Every Evory year distressing accidents are neo reported in in tho the daily press from tho the I nse nl of those thos toys hv by hove Com Come are blinded or crippled and ami J tile tho precious lives Ines of beautiful birds buds I are sacrificed while tho killing in instinct in- in in growing children is il is cultivated and fo fostered I All An because TV Women omen believe themselves theme them I selves to be good goot mothers and consider consider con con- sider the thoy are cultivating th the manliness manU manU- ness as in their little bo boys by y providing them with guns tuns for amusement Moan Meantime time if the mother bo began Kogan an n as soon as her little boy could talk or understand to awaken in in his heart alove a n love lovo and aDd sympathy for birds and ana boasts and is ia sho she then stipulated that his gun Iun practice should consist l wholly in target shooting hootin under proper gui guid guidance ance and in instruction hot her boy would grow ow up skilled as as' as a 3 hood good marksman and yot yet humane humano and kindly in his in in in- Ever Every man should know how to use a 3 grin fin and revolver There Thoro are are occasions when whoa ouch Ruch IU knowledge o is important But Butt there thero ere is no part of a youths youth's education which needs a II more careful and wi wise e preparation and guidance than this Not one boy in in a thousand receives receives this thill preparation and guidance The average boy teases S for a Q gun es ci birthday Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- and r receives it as a or mas gift and proceeds to use it after boin being told told to be bo careful by the tho loving parent who nho IO goes away and leaves es him to his amusement Unpopular Because She Forbade Forbade Forbade For For- bade Boys to Shoot Birds At one of the resorts not far from New York Cit City a woman made hers her self unpopular with her ber nei neighbors mothers of sons eons of tho the un a ago o by tolling telling the boys bOr thoy they must mUt not riot aim al at or OT shoot birds of any Rny kind on her grounds Her action was considered and her hOT words of adico advice advice ad ad- vice ico to the boys bors to study bird lore and learn kindness were considered imper There Is nothing our T public schools need more moro than to include this education education duca tion Hon which tho the Audubon society offers offers of of- fers fern In tho the school courses If Tf you dear madam who peruse these lines Jines want to help make this beautiful world worM more beautiful and anit less leis sa sad if you ou want ant to aid nid in forming hi higher her ideals I and kinder instincts in the tho rising generation gone gen oration in ordering or trimming your I autumn hat try and use good common commonsense I 1 sense ongo and a little individual dual taste and wear a bat hat which i is ii hect becoming and beautiful and md entirely devoid of any part of a dead bird Plumes from the ostrich do not mean tho destruction of that bird bud for the ostrich is a robust fowl and the tho plumes grow while the tho exists just as the goose grows rows new down each year jear oar But besides o plumes there thore are exquisite exquisito grasses and aud flowers and laces and sets lets and velvets vole vel vets and nd ribbons an and other trimmings which can mako headgear attractive Refined Refine l Women Should 1 Be Ashamed l to to Wear an Aigrette Use your good taste and ask your milliner milliner to show somo original ide ideas s in iu building you yon a hat bat R Remember member tho the osprey and ai aigrette ette mean the death and torture of the tho mother birds and the tho slow starvation of their young aa as a rule rulo Any refined woman woman should bo ashamed to be seen seon wearing an aigrette Spun Sun glass and preserved grasses and ferns erns produce quite as artistic artistic ar ar- ar effects I Help the Audubon society save birds |