The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-24
THE FLEETING SHOW.
Some of It's Facts and Fancies.

lWrltten Tor the JOURNAL AND COURlER.l
 NOTE OF WARNING.
 It is said that really truly butter flies, dead ones, of course, are in favor as appropriate ornaments upon modish hats. Now, if this fad obtains, col lectors who have choice specimens had better double-lock and seal their cabi- nets lest they be despoiled by sisters and daughters who develop an appreci- ation of these treasures when they dis cover them to be desirable adjuncts to millinery. The fragility of these beau tiful things, and the difficulty of pro- curing an adequate supply at this sea- son, will render them expensive luxu- ries, hence the danger of loss to col aectors Is serious and startling. Lovers of the lepidopterae, take warning!
 THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTs.
 Apropos of the display of lifeless bod ies upon hats, a London paper, evil dently in the interest of the bird slaughtering trade, recently asserted that the bulk of artificial plumage so worn is manufactured from poultry feathers, and that entire birds are usu- ally made-up affairs, such as never flew, or could ever have been classified by an ornithologist. Hence, they may be worn without remorse, the charge of cruelty being disposed of. But Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller, the enthusiastic student of bird life, and an undoubted authority upon bird-lore, has taken pains to refute this statement. She says: "Women would, of course, be glad to believe that the feather decora- tions they desire to wear on their hats had no other origin than the ducks, cartridges, etc., that have been eaten. But in nine cases out of ten they can- not truthfully quiet their consciences with this fallacy. Any one at all .fa- miliar with living birds can tell a made bird with half an eye, and I venture to assert that iine-tenths of those to be seen on hats on the street are composed, in part, at least, of sing ing and insectivorous birds; indispen- sable not only to the beauty, but to the agricultural prosperity of the country. It may be only g. head; it may be only pair of wings, with the remainder of the creation furnished by other birds, for the manufacturers of these ob- jects take such liberties with nature as set ones teeth on edge. Heads and beaks and small wings are hard to im- itate; far easier it is to supply them of natures construction and call the pro- duct a made bird, though it demands the death of living one all the same" |"
 When one reflects upon the number of times that facts concerning the cru cities of bird-slaughter have been dis seminated in all reputable journals of all civilized countries, and then con- siders that these dead creatures are seldom graceful, though they may be striking, ornaments, 1t is difficult to see why barbarity and bad taste are still encouraged. That they are. and by tender-hearted women who would shed very many tears upon the death of a pet canary, and who would be deeply offended at the suggestion that it should be stuffed and worn as an or- nament, is sadly apparent.
 "Oh, for the shame of 1t!
 Oh, but the blame of it.
 Price of a hatl
 Just for jauntiness bright'ning the
 street!
 This is your halo, O faces so sweet
 Death; and for that"
 IN HAY.
 It Is somewhat surprising at this late day to have the immortal O. ". pre- scented to us in 8 dudish light, as Al ice Morse Earle presents him in her re- gently published work on ''Costprnas of Colonial Times"
 Yet the love of dress is deeply plant ed in every masculine mind, and soon- CT or later 1t mutt come to tho surface. -asorgs Washington yss q methodi-