Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-12

me picture of herself.
1t was q snapshot. taken In the Adiron-
dack mountains. The lady is shown in
a quite kapoo hunting suit-short cordu-
roy skirt, blouse Of same, snug leggfngs,
alpine hit with jaunty feather stuck in
the side thereof. Carelessly resting in
the hollow of her arm is gun.
At her feet, when the snapshot was
taken, lay a dead deer-a young buck.
One Of the lady's feet rests on the neck
of the pitifully supine. all-gone deer. The
lady has her head up. face smiling. as il
| looking for applause.
She had las the accompanying letter in
formed mel killed the deer.
j did not like this snapshot.
1 should very much have preferred to
receive q picture of this lady doing any
thing else in the world than standing
over the carcass Of an inoffensive young
buck deer. thus incontinently thrust into
the Valhalla of deer by bullet from her
rife.
1t didn't seem just-er-well, womanly,
to take short cut. Nor did it seem
anything like tho girl l used to know
way back yonder in the drifted time.
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When this lady was little girl, her
Heart yedIuSO oNeI SuIAcIllS duIiIdiS. sllic
fed all the outcast and sick cats and
dogs in her neighborhood. The sick ones
she took in and nursed. She wasn't
afraid Of mouse, nor yet would she
trap or kill one. nor see one killed or
trapped. She wouldn't kill a water bug.
AS a little girl. she had an instructive
belief that these creatures had right
to live, and she let them live Many she
helped TO live. She had heart full of
rue for abused horses. She was an early
member Of the Washington Humane So
ciety. Once, when she was sixteen, / saw
her standing in rigid horror and anger
flashing a sick horse. The driver, when
she spoke to him, abused her with his
tongue. She flew to the horses head and
chung to the bride until the policeman
she had sent for appeared and arrested
the driver.
Naturally, such girl was destined to
become notable mother. She did be-
come that Her three children are dandily
behaved. beautifully trained young ones.
| One Of the cardinal doctrines in the creed
| that has been taught them by their
mother Is that they must act square with
| animals: not abuse them nor see them
| abused II they can help it.
Here was that gir-matron proudly
sending out picture of herself with one
of her feet resting on the pulseIess neck
| Oh uedu young ueef tnat she had
slaughtered with her own rife.
| 1t is puzzling.
| A deer you understand is an animal
that, perhaps above all animals that
breathe. distinctly. unostentatiously and
eyerlasting.y minds his own business To
do that properly and up to the handle he
gets just as far away from human habi-
| tations and human commerce as he pos
sibly can. His idea is to get by some
how. without interfering with anybody or
| anything or anybodys or anything $
property or belongings.
There's nothing predatory about him.
He doesn't steal sheep or chickens He
doesn't make forays upon fields of grain
He doesn't bother folks orchards. He
plays the game as he sees it. He gets
his living pretty hardly, particularly
when the snow is deep. but he gets 1t
without theft, without asking odds or
help. He has many forest enemies; none
that he fears so much as human ene-
mics.
/ There IL no animal so beautiful, 30 dig
nified, so appealing. as deer. He looks
| his character out of his wondering baf-
i 40 When ig Let