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stroyed in large iiunibers for iiiilliiicrv and other dec- 

 orative purposes a poi)iilar clamor arose against such 

 practices and the Massaeliusetts lawmakers recently 

 showed much good sense by enacting a law prohibiting 

 the killing and use of song and insectivorous birds for 

 the millinery trade. 



The Elm-leaf licetle. an exotic, is another costly ex- 

 ample of meddling with "Nature's plans. 



Rabbits were introduced in Australia. They in- 

 creased with 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 x)revent them 

 from depojiulating the waters in which they live of 

 desirable and valuable fishes. 



MOTHER EVE AND HER SUCCESSORS. 



When Mother Eve started tlie first sewing 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. Women of the present age. particularly some 

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

 and lovely woman also delights to adorn her shapely 

 Unm 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- 

 ploy the pi'imitive fig leaf dress of her ancient and re- 

 nowned ancestor, even if the demands of fickle fashion 

 should eventually 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. 



