The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13

have made stern endeavOrs to punish
tho ladies'. and TO protect the birds
though, ss Cholly. my husband. says.
they usually nike to nOurish the ladies
and to provide the birds plus the bot
tie that Is cold Cholly IS so clever
Put really excepting the last SEN
tence) this begins to sound like
graduation day essay, 80 I must hurry
on 20 hats and treat the subject light
II. First. however. want to tell you
about that ludicrous country sheriff
who lived IN central New York. IT all
happened not long after they passed a
law somewhere TO the effect that mil
liners selling hats with ospreys should
be brought before the court. Well, the
sheriff, who hsd just had a fine dinner
OF bTOiled chicken Cor maybe roasted
robins, for they are considered tooth
some bits by those country bred). took
his coat down Cbeing we'll nourished
and ready for action from the hook
and set forth to arrest the village mil
nner-ths first tradeswoman TO suffer
from the newly made law. he en-
tered her shop, he bullied her into a
faint. he wrought havoc with all her
0est S2.6s creations.
Poor little nilliner! And she never
knew whether the gew-Eaws on her
hats grew on a bird, a breast or a
bush. Foolish sheriff. Robins for the
eating may be had for the shooting.
but ospreys and paradise plumes such
as the village miIliner displays are all
awkward limitations and pulled from
the tails OF the turkey, the cockereI
and the useful hen whom you often
fatten for the Sunday dinner. In New
York. the latest rebuke to women In
regard to their cruelty and vanity IS
the glass case in the Museum OF Nat
ural History containing a family Of
birds of parad Sc caught on the island
of New Guinea Doesn't this sound.
as said, like a graduation essayD
CholIy says IL I continue my dis
sertation on the fashions I'll soon be
able TO take a part in the stump
rage-not the stump, the suffrage
movement.) Mrs. Frank D. Sturgis.
Of New York and Lenox. had the case
put there for a noble purpose PA
cards attached 10 the case tell all
about the birds. and hear that Mrs.
SturGis really can't sleep nights for
worry over their welfare. And she'll
worry all the more very shortly. for
this is a frenzied feather season in
New York.
The paradise plumage. let it be ex-
p aimed, I'm my best essay style ffor I
believe there is a complaint that l
take fashions too frlvOlously). IL taken
from the male bird. for the lady birds
all have a humble dull brown dress
The gray male birds have gorgeous
plumage and they have a fine habit OF
dancing pompously and with golden
fanlike plumage outspread wherever
there are any little brown ladies
perched about TO admire them. So
when II comes to cruelty. II is vanity
Cor vanity. and the male bird Is killed.
The whole cause OF the worry lies in
the fact that the species will soon be
extinct. And now we have II. Now
We know why Mrs Sturgls worries so.
It Is all on our account. not for the
sake OF the dancing dandies She IS
afraid that the birds of paradise will
be extinct. and we shall all be so dis
appointed II ever we go 10 New Guinea
to spend our vacations and find no
dancing handles hopping about from
bush to tree.
But stubbOrnly. stubbOrnly IN sr.ie of
the Queen and Mrs. Sturgis. naughty
women say better bird on the hat
than m the bush in Far away New