| Show AN EDITORIAL BY I I IAN FLORENCE DAVIES 4 S IG TIlE THE The rising generation scarcely ren emers th the Audubon society If f they know v It at al all they know It ItI I I a a society of or scientists Interested in the tir study tudy of ot birds and bird life ilfe I But Dut that Isn't what tho the Au- Au Audubon Au Audubon dubon society meant 25 years vear oars ago agoto agoto to the scattered few minded high hith I AU-I conscIentious women omen who nho he belonGed to Ib lb To 10 them It mcneil sa saIng Ing the tho lives of bird mothers for tor the sake k of their young oung And that In turn meant no aigrettes on hate hals The ladles adles of the Audubon society had no objection to a homely quill I or a s wIng wine or two from the th barn barnyard barnyard I yard The breast of ot a duck didn't shock them thorn cruelly since they real real- real that In the course of human eHnts that duck would meet the short sharp pangs of ot death and gl gle gi e a up Its life lite to appear later on the family platter I IThe The result of o all those early othe years year of pleading on the tho th pal pait t of the faithful fo few Is 19 that aigrettes are arc no more Some Somo Som very dull peo- peo peo pIe people may Imagine It was the peo-I peo law which banned them from this country that saved the bird lings How very er ery droll The law law- mere mere- ly merely designers served to discourage the de- de de I signers so that aigrettes for the very cry ery occasional picture lInt out of fashion That was WIlS the real reason that our mothers stopped topped wearing that particular kind of ot plumage It was fashion which of course spoke the final ord Once out of o fashion an fo fot which ones one's mother might have h vc paid a fortune could positively doo dowdy do dy Isn't the thc time coming it If not almost here when hen something will have to be done clone to make mako the tho skins ot of almost millions of animals al- al a- a most too big a pric prIce to satisfy a whim ft him ot of o I The Tho feather question seems to have been settled pretty sanely All Al feathers are ar not barred But most hats hat are smarter without them Fashion has attended to that Couldn't we solve sole sol e the thc fur wF In some somo Bom such commonsense sense a vay 7 Could there not be enough furs for the making of warm srm In winter secured without either cruelty or without the th danger ot of o J out whole hole specIes ot of f t mam- mam mal mammals mammal mals r l 1 or ot skin f now d for faddy trimmings and ad for tor summer garments her they are not need need- needed ed for warmth could rould be bo saved Th The true tru slot or of o the trapping of many y of the animals which give E their lies IM to make mak II a l summer now for tor Or seine gome foolish flapper Is la too cruel too gruesome to be Oven even hinted In these lines It It would not 1101 make pretty reading l ft n it If women knew ew It 1 they would turn sick and Cold at ot the tho sight of C every Cery ery pelt peltOn On the other hand thousands of oi being raised and una killed for tOl the i sake ale of their pelts Isn't Isn t It almost time that women faced facts 13 and took tills this next step In ch i The Pity city ot of It Is 11 tnt that once oc thy they okE t the word nord ord no nn one ono would miss the product which costs so tern tern- tar In sUfferIng because fashion would step In and settle It all 1111 jn 11 i a n Jiffy |
