Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-07-18

months to supply New York dealers
alone These are facts which may well
cause one TO pause and reflect Every
woman knowing this should shun the
responsibility of carrying aloft the
trophies OF such brutal work when
women become artistic in dress ana
study the law of taste and beautyth
VIII perhaps trace from primitive man
the reason Of their love for this bar
balous adornment II this state Of az
lulrs Is allowed to continue and prO-
gress, j Is only fair TO presume that
gradually the melody now so happily
furnished by our sweet throated song
slers throughout the land win fail ana
a time win come when their music vim
De completely hushcd. when each tree
Will stand covered with a great pail OF
silence, no longer the altar from
when the red breasted robin.
CHEEKY and plquant, may chrp well
come To the morning sun or the
gracious Owl bid the world at evening
"a solemn au revoir And TO think thar
women who have hearts 10 tender that
knowingly they would not step upon
worm on XIII butterfly are In their
pllnd desire 10 follow fashions mode.
thoughtlessly responsible for the condl
tlun when creates ana maintains this
eruel industry. To think that q woman
Tor the qualification OF ornpmenupq her
head for q few weeks and wearing upon
her hat the carcass OF a spitted bird
makes It possible and profitable for
large number of men to earn Hvril.
hood By going into the forests ANA
seeking by all manner OF cruel lngen-
Ions HRNHI4ra ia
feather ROBBED fairies OF the wood.
From a mans point Of view. Il seems
a strange taste on the part Of the gentle
sex, this decorating their heads al such
@ fearful cost OF bird suffering aud bird
life, together with the threatened eS-
tiuctlOn Of the entire species, Womau's
Indifference TO cruelty when their love
OF adCrnmnt Is concerned: WOmans sd
perflclal seutlmentality which only
sheds few tears over the pain II sees
aud enjoys poems ON the nightingale,
bat who has no strength against the
selhshuess which claims everything at
any cost for the eradication of her
barbarous taste OF the savage with his
feathers and scalps.'
This calls 10 mind @ wOmans hat /
saw q few days ago It had "a sort Of
grim fitness for the wearer It's chief Dr.
nament was large Bon.1esCript bird
made W of no one knows how mahy
victims with a hawks bin and explod-
cd on the brim and he fierce head look
ing down TO the wearer's nose sonic-
what similar In shape 20 that of rs
own, as Il wishing 20 sleze and tear II
In revenge To me II was harmony m
face and hoadgear And what a cruel
examine 10 our children
IL also calls 20 mind the
story OF the boys who were rObblng
a nest IN the absence Of the mother bird
when woman CHANGED TO pass and
reprmand the children for such a cruel
act and tried to appeal to them by tell
Ing them the unhappness they would
cause the mother bird upon her return.
The boys answer was that she would
never return 'Why?' Because you
have A. on your hat"
The&omen though perhaps are not
the greatest enemy which the birds
have TO contend against The small
boy with the air gun and his Unsuitable
passion for collecting bIrdseggs, Is
another zoe. Even science is arrayed
against the bird. In It's name they are
hunted and cut off measured and dis
sectcd, stuffed and cabineted and then
the man who shoots a thousand birds
for antomcal examination learns less
than he who can read the song Of one
Audubon was not a cruel slayer Of
birds He listened to their music as
they sang IN the sunlight and FROM
their song he read their life A stuffed
bird is after all poor caricature Of the
living and he who studies the carcass
Of dead bird learns not life but death.