Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-02
~ 81 Cruel Fashion <9e

TOME years ago, at a ball in Paris, there
appeared woman wearing on hef
head small dead bird. She desir-
ed to distinguish herself by new
kind of adornment, not caring how 1t was
procured.
From this small beginning arose the Gus
tom of wearing the feathers, wings ana ~
MANY instances the entire carcasses of Di!uS
as trimmings and adornment for ieminihe
headgear. u, ..,,or that II
NAV now be said TO be Worldwide, and its
effects are SO tremendous that they neeo 70
he forcibly called to the attention Oh 'he
chief offenders. o-.;.holor;o.l
Society saws: "From carefully gathered STA
t;st;cs It IN proved that on the most moder-
sto cslcnlation 5000, 900 song birds are an
nmaily required to fill the demand 1or tne
s,u, orna arnentation of the hats Of American wom-
en- az The slaughter is not confined to song
h;rds. everything that wears feathers Is TAR
,a+ for the bird butcher. In single season
50 600 terms were killed at Cape Goa ZOE
expectation, and the swamps anf az tbsr eeTets
~ herons In one month 100000 bobo-
GnLs nave been killed near Philadelphia, ana
from from a single Long Island village 7o,O0O song
birds were supplied in short time 10 NE"
York dealers for millinery purposes.
In some places, when wings only are sought,
+ha hunters. grown brutal by the practice OF
their horrid trade, shoot the birds down and
tear off the wings of numbers while tney are
yet alive. IN.
rida kill the birds while they are rearing
their young, because Of the greater beauty OF
the plumage at that season, and leave the
little ones to starve to death: One who went
through the hunting grounds sPeak5s .aaas o. ,ns
pain It gave him to hear the pitfui screams
Of these dying little birds
VIII does all this slaughter go on? Solely
at the behest of fashion, and that women and
girls may decorate themselves and win ad-
always rendered, because those who know
the inner secrets of this cruel fashion regard
it with deep disapprovaI.
Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller says; 1.-The beau
tiful warbers, hittering incessantly about the
trees. are working almost every instant in
our interest, yet we, some of us, wear their
dead bodies in clusters and wreaths, and In
sects increase and multiply apace. The rose
breasted grosbeak works more 1ndustriousy
than any hod-carrier and never strikes for
shorter hours and what is he doing? Carefully
examining the potato plants and picking of
that pest-the potato beetle. Unfortunately
more unfortunately for us than for him-he
has beautiful coat; he is wanted to adorn
somebody's hat; his life of usefulness is cut
short. and the bugs have free sweep with
'n1 Aepa;n p;h She says: "Pages have been written
and published about the desolation of the
former ird-hunted spots; every traveller who
observes, every collector who goes out to
secure the last lingering s. individual Individual reports
Of Of birds, and the terrific and unchecked in
crease Of their prey, the insect, which shall
y vet tt devour the world and the inhabitants
thereof" ,
sneakinr of the great use Of birds to man,
says: n.s4. -. =. -,
turai purposes alone, annually, over one hun
dred million dollars in the. United States
ant an as as to make human life almost unendur-
able. able - In other sections it is only kept in
check by birds. and there is no place in