The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-05-03
PLEA FOR The BIRDS
Miss Maud YuIe Reads Very Inter-
esting Paper Before the
KenOsha Teachers.
WORK OF AUDoBoN SOCIETY.

Miss Yule Gives Ladies of the City Some
Points to Think of When Purchasing
Spring Millinery Destruction of Birds
has Become one of the Great Questions
Discussed by Humanitarians and Efforts
Are Being Made to Stop it.
1t is most fitting, that we who are to
teach our pupils about the birds found
near our home, should know about the
society that proposes to restore the
birds to our cities and make them once
more feel at home and safe with us.
This society was formed for the pro-
lection of the wild birds that are being
killed all over the world with such
savage and relentless cruelty. 1t seems
strange to think that we women are IN
a great measure to blame TOR this
cruelty.
True, many birds are killed by boys
and men for mere sport butthis is only
drop in the bucket compared to the
millions that are slaughtered at the de-
mand of our sense1ess vanity.
on. s.Vhat does it cost this garniture of death:
tt costs the life which God alone can give;
IT costs dull silence where was mus1c's breath
1t costs dead Joy, that foolish pride may live,
An life. iOy and song depend upon IT, ~
are costly trimmings for woman ) ooul1eV
Some may and do ask the question:
why take so much trouble to protect
the birds? Surely birds do an immense
amount of useful work which could not
be accomplished in any other way.
They destroy harmful seeds, they
act as sCavengers, very much to the
advantage of public health, and save
millions of dollars to the country every
wear by the increasing war which they
waoe on the insects that prey upon
vegetation and it is because SO many
birds have been killed that the wretched
insects are getting the upper hand,
and men, alone, are pOwerless to hight
them.
This society is formed to awaken
great interest and desire to protect
our feathered friends, by teaching
about their habits, homes, and the way
the Young are fed and tended, about
their sweet songs, indeed to teach
everything which has a tendency to
make us love and protect our birds. L
wonder how we can talk to our children
about the wrong of numbering birds
for millinery purposes If we ourselves
wear wings, etc. Much OF the use or
bird ornament in the past has been
through mere thought1essness and
some ignorance on our part, but that
IGNORANCE can no longer exist since the
agitation of this subject and the facts
which it has brought to light.
There are three birds which more
especially need our protection, namely
the grub, gull and heron. ri
The eeret p1umes which are now so
DoDu1ar are taken from the snowy
heron. These long delicate plumes are
only worn at nesting times. AT this
time birds lose all sense of fear in the
loving care for the young. These
facts are known to the plume hunters
who pounce upon these happy homes
and shoot from two to four hundred OF
these loving mothers day, tear OFT the
mum tuff from the back of the victim
and throw the bodies back among their
helpless children, and then pass on to
new hunting ground. These little
birds are now 1o-l 60 starve, cry, suffer
and die.
The grebe skins also are taken dur
ing the nesting season, and the young
are again left to die unCared for. The
sea gu11s are however killed at any or
ali times. true, some times the hunters
do not even take the time to kill the
bird, but merely wrench off the wings
and then throw the bird aside to die in
,.,5 +o-.-1 1o1a OrOT1v
Think what price to pay,
Faces so bright and gay
Just for a hat!
Flowers unvisited, mornings unsung,
Sea ranges bare of the wings that's DER
swung,
Barred Just for hiatt
Think of the others, toe,
Others and mothers, too,
Bright eyes in hat.
Hear you no mothers groan floating in
air.
Hear you no little moan, birdlings des-
pair
Somewhere for that:
Caught mid some mother work,
Torn by hunter luckI
Just for a hat.
Plenty of mother heart yet in the world;
All the more wings TO tear carefully
twirled!
Women want that.
Oh. but the, shame of it
Oh but the blame of it
Price of a HIT.
Just for jauntiness Frightening the
Strret4
This is your halo-O faces so sweet
Death and for that!
Now can we not impress 1T hrst upon
ourselves and then upon our pupils
A1,A GGLIo 1ixyett1 hest who 1OVeth best