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stroyed in large numbers for millinery and other dec- 

 orative purposes a popular clamor arose against such 

 practices and the Massiicliusetts lawmakers recently 

 showed much good sense by enacting a law prohibiting 

 tlie killing and use of song and insectivorous birds for 

 the millinery trade. 



The Elmleaf Beetle, an exotic, is anotJier costly ex- 

 ample of meddling with Nature's plans. 



Rabbits were introduced in Australia. They in- 

 creased witli prodigious rapidity, and so abundant and 

 destructive did they become that for a time their rav- 

 ages threatened to ruin the country. 



German Carp have been placed in many of the best 

 fishing groui.ds in Pennsylvania. This mistake is dis- 

 covered when it is too late, perhaps, to prevent them 

 from depopulating the waters in which they live of 

 desirable and valuable fishes. 



MOTHER EVE AND HER SUCCESSORS. 



When Mother Eve started the first se\ving society 

 over which she ruled supreme in the Garden of Eden, 

 and began to make wearing apparel she was, so rec- 

 ords say, content to dress in plain and abbreviated 

 garb. >\'omen of the present age, particularly some 

 who "stride the wheel,"' pattern after Eve's short skirts; 

 and lovely woman also delights to adorn her shapely 

 form with Nature's beauties of both plant and animal 

 kind. Of course, no one would dare to believe that 

 women of this generation could ever be induced to em- 

 l)loy the primitive fig leaf dress of her ancient and re- 

 nowned ancestor, even if the demands of fickle fashion 

 should eventtially revert to the days when Eve did all 

 her own house work, spanked, and otherwise cared for 

 the babies, and besides all this, made her own hats, 



