FUR AND FEATHERS 



IHE conjunction of these two words brings to 

 the mind's eye a matinee hat escorted by 

 " a furry Johnnie." 



And it may be that such is one way 

 of treating the subject. 



The added charm which women gain 

 from egret or humming bird might be commercially 

 catalogued, the borrowed comfort of a man in a motor 

 coat might be counted for righteousness to fur and feather. 



One might go further and estimate how many love 

 birds' plumes go to a love match, and how many seals and 

 skins — parchment or otherwise — are required for a liberal 

 marriage settlement, since — let women deny it if they 

 choose — the end and aim of all their decorative dress is love 

 and marriage. 



So it is also amongst the fur and feather bringers ; only 

 there Nature inverts the desire for adornment. Thus 

 humanity has to add to the injury of death the insult of 

 perverting masculine glory to base feminine uses. A bird 

 of paradise for instance might well resent its tail — for which 

 it had fought so fiercely — being appropriated by a female 

 who screams at the very sight of a mouse. 



Whether the birds do feel this to be an indecent inver- 



