Show FOR foli WOMANS VAN BIRDS AND BEASTS ARE TOR AND KILLED every plume and feather in fernl feml nine headgear costs costa the life of one of gods god a creatures christian principle involved chis Is an ago in which as never in any other othar women momen nio me coming lie solid as workers for reform chev exhibit in an ever increasing de arc the lie divine unrest unreal tion lion with wrong desire to light it hut but Is one follia of wrong wronie cruell which malch women are not cuu coti 1 latently to lemady I 1 say not c consistent ii the rhe same woman who mho ft III interfere intel fere on behalf of an over loaded or hoise and who mho would perhaps escue a sta iving cat or dog Is often to be seen with A ith a flay ed alive seals seal a skin on her back and on oil her head the plumage of slaughter ad birds to all appearances uncoil of her culpability she adver uses the fact that she either will not rea real I 1 or dots docs not regard the state ments menta so BO well and n d I 1 in tho the case of bird plumage aluni go BO i jay 11 and 11 d repeatedly concerning 0 the barbarities perpetrate df n obtain ing ng these things last october mr william dutcher of new york city president of the national of audubon societies mado made an address la in philadel wit at tho the annual meeting of the Ameil Lall Hui iane association in which after mentioning what has been often repented repeated the fact that to ob tain the white while aigrette so BO lai feely worn morn involves not only tile the destrie tion of parent birds for these plumes prow only at the time of nesting but the death of their wung noung flom tion ile ho spoke also albo of the brutal mur der of 0 one of the maidens in the em ploy of the association by a plume hunter at oyster ke KC florida this law breaker rot foi whose nefarious rief arlous trade feather wearing mearing women are re sible resented the interference of the warden and killed hilled him such women may now reflect it if they will da n the fact that the thoughtlessness and vanity of their kind haie bae in el I 1 bentall den tall ben the means of burdei ing a man and leaving his big wife a widow and his eb illren orphans they are also responsible for encouraging a trade of the most flea cles no iso man con can arend hn his time kill ing with all the haste and re rei kless ness possible innocent birds at the nesting period the oung to starve I 1 without himself losing the last remnant of feeling such stich a man Is getting the education of a cil minal aomen who mho wear mear tile the products of his I 1 evil work are before god responsible whether hether they think about it or not I 1 mr dutched in hla his address spora apoka ot of the killing of birda in general the utter folly ot of it on account of the he 1 loss 0 as to agil culture through the ravages of insects tho the cruelty and the of for the human race were it riot not for the birds lie he spoke of the laws his big association has and Is aiming to secure and was as one at I vast least of his big hearers u who he hoped that the day might spee cIlly conw ahen women cruel enough or heedless enough to wear bird plumage shall be liable anywhere to arrest and fine as law breakers millinery that costs suffering ering and slaughter daughter the killing hll llna of god coda a I 1 tul ful innocent and most useful creatures should be condemned by f ff aebers cn can ho bo I 1 tak n from the bird hut but there Is 1 reason to bellove ll at men een hega ate aia cruelly loin out in many lo women momen claiming to be and left to savages and barbarians no really humane woman moman wants to wear enen een as much as a chicken feather be cause all feather w wearing earing tends to pro long the fashion one of the most incomprehensible things connected v ith the senseless and cruel bird plume plurie fashion Is the silence of ministers of the copol why can not see that for a woman to deck herself with mith the re suits of cruelty and brutal ltv Is incon sistena with mith christian profession there Is a citing need that people in all the chu ch inches iches should be told definitely and what applied christianity Is participation in cruelty is a sin from which professing Chilst ians lans are far from being exempt and it constitutes a serious and well grounded cause for among outsiders who are humane they laugh at a christianity which milich harps continually on gods icicy to us but sias little or nothing about the mercy which we me in consequence should show to every living creature carl can the justice of this criticism be M F lovell Spere secretary tary american ilu hu mane association |