MR. CHUPES AND MISS JENNY 



think of all these things, to say nothing of 

 the incalculable usefulness of the little 

 feathered friends, when you make your 

 next selection for a hat-trimming! 



And do not be deluded by any specious 

 reasoning concerning feathers picked up in 

 poultry-yards and arranged by artificial 

 means to simulate the genuine article. Not 

 even if the demonstration be carried to the 

 extent of exposing feathers glued on arti- 

 ficial backgrounds. It is said that all the 

 poultry-yards in the country could not sup- 

 ply the demands for feathers for millinery 

 purposes. 



" A survey of women's 'headgear, as the 

 average woman appears in public," says 

 The Auk of January, 1900, " is a painful 

 sight to the ornithologist, who at a glance 

 can tell the source of these hat decorations, 

 however mutilated and disguised, with 

 reasonable certainty, and can realize to 

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