Show WAR OF AUDUBON SOCIETY AGAINST FANCY OF FASHION or STATES HAS PASSED U MODEL lw mav aar or ADOPTION for man years there has been a never ending never conceding never triumphing trum phing war between the world ol 01 fashion and the world of serious thought from the davs when the stoics of anc ent rome strove to awaken the dissipated set of their day to the grim realities of life and of ahll down to the present busy era in which the preachers in the pulpit try to arouse responsibility in the use ol 01 the enormous wealth of to aay and hi mane societies endeavor to protect the innocent wild things from the on slaught of eternally barbaric fashion there has existed this pitched battle of one halt of the world against the other half bishop henr potter wrote tl ere is an element of savagery in the use of to personal decora alon which is in grotesque gio tesque contrast ath our boasts of civilization but even the savage stops sl ort as a rule with the feathers it Is only christian people who think it worth while to butcher a whole bird to adorn theli headgear I 1 am sure however that is largely from that unreflecting habit which Is a leading vice in people who follow the fashions but it is a vice as hood sang when he wrote but eill Is wrought by want of thought well as want of heart oliver holmes too wrote once oi his hearty and eager sympathy with all and every one who tried to pre vent the waste of these innocent hap pi beautiful and i asefi 1 lives on which we depend for a large shadic of our natural enjoyment but it was charles dudley warner who made the aptest aphorism on the matter that has yet been printed it is celebrated but can hardly be too often weighed and it should have a pretty certain influence on the vain little heart of my lady A dead bird does not help the ap bearance pe arance of an ugly woman and a pretty woman needs no such orna ment chicago record herald |