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Show THE REVIEW. Attorneys and Counselors-at-La- w. 0. F. & F. 0. Loofboobow, Mo. 70 Commercial Block. Eugene Lewis, Office 102 IV. -- Rooms 103 Commercial Block. Hodges. XX. DEflTIST 1 &4 A and Commercial Bit, Salt Lake City Plea for the Birds. The president of the Smithsonian Institute has stated that unless women cease to wear birds bodies, in fifty years, birds will be extinct. For every dead body which you women wear on your hats, and for every wing, which means a dead bird, food for your children will be dearer. All over the world the birds are singing. What do we do ? We send a man to shoot them and then put them on our ridiculous bonnets I suppose all the women in the Illinois Federation can read, yet all this has been printed, and still I see a fearful aigrette on the bonnet of a friend of mine. Everyone of those beautiful feathers means the death of a mother or father bird and probably three or four little ones. In pleading for the birds, I am not pleading alone for them in their thousand beautiful forms of life and music, but for the preservation to the human race of what is useful, and The plea for the birds is a plea for their arch enemy and destroyer man. The cause of the birds is by no means a sentimental fad. It has a very practical bearing. Birds play a very necessary and important part in agriculture, the industry upon which the life of the world depends. Careful investigation has shown that our common wild birds preserve the farmers crops by feeding on the destructive insects, which, if left undisturbed would completely destroy the most valuable grains. The United States government has issued, through the agricultural department, books and pamphlets explaining the vast usefulness of insectivorous birds in saving annually the harvests of the country. ! joy-givin- heart-cheerin- g. What kind of creatures will the be in the opinion of women of those of a hundred years from now, when the song of the meadow lark, thrush and blue bird hare become a tradition because great great grandmamma would wear their dead forms, heads and wings in her ridiculous have names enough on our list (numbers will tell) the traffic in wild birds hat? shoot birds and rob their nests we can do little. Mrs. Nelson, Freeport: We are to-da- SALT LAKE CITY. g 7 y Upon some matters the number of people who profess and declare their belief is not material, but in this affair of the wholesome destruction of birds the number of women who can be persuaded not to aid and abet the destroyer is of prime importance. That is why I speak here today. To stay the hands of the dealers in birds, skins and feathers, reaching out to slay in all parts of the world, is needed one thing, namely: The declaration of g sex that millions of the they will not wear those slain birds or their feathers. In this case numbers Once convinced that do count. bird-wearin- women as a mass are as determined not to wear song birds feathers as they may heretofore been determined to wear them, the restless hands of trade will seek new fields and let the birds alone. I am making no plea against the use of the feathers of food birds, or of the ostrich, as articles of dress. All domestic and game birds are protected when they are rearing their young, and when they are killed it is for use as food and not for the sake of vanity alone, and the ostrich is raised and carefully fostered for its plumage. The treatment of these birds is practically without cruelty. It is the wild birds, Gods messengers of joy and grace, and His helpers to man whose protection I plead for. Do not wear their beautiful plumage. Turn away from their poor stuffed bodies, their heads, wings, or aigrettes made from their graceful plumes. The aigrettes are taken from the birds at nesting time, and every airy spray means a and a dead mother or father-birnest full of starving little ones. Help! Every one help here, by adding one name to the roll of women who say that they will never encourage by word or deed the slaughter of wild birds for any reason. When we d, will be over, and every hill will ring with the songs of Gods joyous messengers. Ada C. Sweet at the T. F. W. C. Convention. Mrs. Burns, Monmouth: as mothers encourage So long their sons to eating song birds in our restaurants under false names. Mrs. Barnes, Rockford: I rejoice in the law passed by Massachusetts, and wish we might have one like it. Miss Sweet said, It has come to me that some members think I have feathers on my hat; I defy the alle-gatand allegation. These are not feathers and I think this is a very pretty hat. Mrs. Bourland, of Pontiac, stated that her milliner had assured her that the ornaments on her hat were vegor etable. Mrs. Barnes stated the feathers on her hat were not those of a singing bird, but were rooster feathers. . Dr. Morey, pastor of State Street Church was introduced and spoke in very complimentary terms of the orI have heard more ganization, down right common sense than I have heard in ten years. Keep on this line and you have got the country, you have hold of the end of the string that will pull our country up to a higher plane. English reviews are said to.be wrestthe great ling with what is called underwear problem, which is simply a question of whether exposure exposes or strengthens, or whether the poor Indian is tougher than the remainder of the world because his rough life is the healthiest possible, or because it kills off all the weaker ones at the start. We are not informed, however, to what department of literature this is referred. A CLUB WOMAN. Gladstone has written an article of considerable length on the influence of Arthur Hallam over Tennyson, to be published simultaneously in London and New York Christmas. |