Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-05-09
Modern Woman
What Humane and Enlightened
People Are Dong TO keeyfsmeri-
can Birds From Being Externi-
nated-Wom Must Help Them.

Do you know that there is an organi-
cation called the National Association
Of Audubon Societies, that its head
quarters are at 141 Broadway, New
York city, and that its object is to pre-
vent the beautiful birds and wild game
generally of our country from being
murdered and slaughtered off the earth
by greedy and savage hunters who in
this respect bark back altogether to the
times of elemental man, when a SO
called human creature would kill and
eat his own neighbor If he felt hum
CRY and no other game was convenient?
In every state of the Union, game
laws or no game laws, wild fowl are
disappearing as fast as time can trot.
Not many years ago the lovely lakes
of Minnesota abounded In ducks and
other game fowl. Now so few are left
that the legislature has found it -neces-
sary to pass law forbidding Mime
sofa waterfowl to be sold either in
side the state or outside. In New York
the Audubon society has petitioned the
legislature to enact bill making the
closed season for waterfowl from Jan.
/ to Sept. Is. Women ought to throw
the weight of their influence against
the destruction of wild ducks and all
other birds in-this country, except Eng
lish sparrows, which are not American
birds at ALL Do you want our graceful,
rarely beautiful native wild ducks to
be hunted altogether of the face of
America? Do you want the sweet
song of the robin, bluebird, redbird and
catbird to be hushed forever, so that
no American will even any longer
know what it sounds like? Then
wake up and help stop the bird muir
ders. And the first thing to do is to
stop wearing in your hats feathers OF
any kind, except chicken and ostrich
feathers.
Headline in newspaper, Women
Score the Refreshment Room In the
New Diana Club Oh, yes, women
are always scoring something! And
much good it does! Scoring things Is
not the way to reform evils. Tr
again. some of the things some women
score as evils are not evils at all it
the scorers only had knowledge and in
telIigent development enough to see
It. If women would stop the scoring
business awhile and study all sides OF
the questions they shoot off their opin-
ions about. then when they did at
length speak their judgment would be
worth something and would be listened
to with respect.
I have lately read quite a taking &C.
count Of how five working girls rented
q seven room city fat and made a hap
py home, doing all their own house
work. They have brought their living
. expenses-food, rent and gas-down to
$3.50 a week apiece and live better
than they would for 81 week in
boarding house. Their success comes
from two words, harmony and hustle.
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OF New York city went on the hunt OF
her long American descent. She was a
Daughter with big D of several la
dies societies that held themselves ex-
elusive because of their stretched out
line of American ancestry. This Daugh-
ter with big D was looking up the
history of her great-grandfather. She
found it in the courthouse records of
New Jersey county. The records told
the highly descended dame that her
great-grandfather had been hanged as
a pirate. She didn't go back any far
Their.
Girls employed in the Philadelphia
postoffice have resolved they will cease
to spend their time reading novels and
will not ssmollycoddlep themselves any
more. Instead they will go in for out
door athletics and become noble speci-
mems of American physical woman
hood. They have already organized six
basket ball teams. Let novel reading.
mollycoddle girls elsewhere sit up and
take notice.
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don't know when I've read any
thing better than the story of how
Princess Wah-nah-ho-ko, chief Of the
Kickapoo Indians, gave her evidence
ais a witness to United States senate
committee. The Kickapoos had griev-
ances, and the woman chief was asked
to set them before the committee.
Here is Wah-pah-ho-ko's speech: "Wo-
men are not supposed to talk Talk
breeds mischief 1t may be well enough
for birds and animals to chatter. We
women should be above such idleness.
In our tribe woman acts, but she
never talks. have spoken"
The brave women teachers of New
York city are fighting on for equal pay
with men for equal work, and they are