Ct)e Audubon ^otiette^ 



" You cannot with a scalpel fitid the poet's soul, 

 Nor yet the wild bird^s song-." 



Edited by Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright (President of the Audubon Society of the State of 

 Connecticut), Fairfield, Conn., to whom all communications relating to the work of the Audubon 

 and other Bird Protective Societies should be addressed. Reports, etc., designed for this department 

 should be sent at least one month prior to the date of publication. 



DIRECTORY OF STATE AUDUBON SOCIETIES 



With names and addresses of their Secretaries 



New Hampshire Mrs. F. W. Batchelder, Manchester. 



Massachusetts Miss Harriet E. Richards, care Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. 



Rhode Island Mrs. H. T. Grant, Jr., 187 Bowen street. Providence. 



Connecticut Mrs. William Brown Glover, Fairfield. 



New York Miss Emma H. Lockwood, 243 West Seventy-fifth street. New York City. 



New Jersey Miss Anna Haviland, 53 Sandford ave., Plainfield, N. J. 



Pennsylvania Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 South Twenty-first street, Philadelphia. 



District of Columbia Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten, 3033 P street, Washington. 



Delaware Mrs. Wm. S. Hilles, Delamore place, Wilmington. 



Maryland Miss Anne Weston Whitney, 715 St. Paul street, Baltimore. 



South Carolina Miss S. A. Smyth, Legare street, Charleston. 



Florida 



Ohio Mrs. D. Z. McClelland, 5265 Eastern ave., Cincinnati. 



Indiana W. W. Woolen, Indianapolis; 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, Wheaton. 



Iowa- Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. 



Wisconsin Mrs. George W. Prckham, 646 Marshall street, Milwaukee. 



Minnesota Mrs. J. P. Elmer, 314 West Third street, St. Paul. 



Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. 



Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



Texas 



California Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands. 



Hats! 



Madame Arnold, 7 Temple Place, Bos- 

 ton, sends her name to be added to the 

 "Milliner's White List." 



By the way, is Massachusetts to have the 

 milliner's flag of truce all to herself? Will 

 not some member of the Audubon Society, 

 in every large town, make a point of se- 

 curing at least one name for this list ? It 

 is in this way that the honorary vice- 

 presidents can come to the front and be of 

 use. Every well-dressed, well-groomed 

 woman who buys several changes of head- 

 gear a year can exert a positive influence 

 upon her milliner, if she is so minded, and 

 by appearing elegantly charming in bon- 

 nets devoid of the forbidden feathers, do 

 more to persuade the milliner to drop them 

 from her stock than by the most logical war 

 of words. 



A glance at the holiday hats seen re- 



cently at many good shops, theaters, and 

 In the streets of New York, was not with- 

 out much that is encouraging. 



Velvet flowers of exquisite colors and 

 workmanship, jeweled, gold, and steel or- 

 naments, and pompons of lace and ribbon 

 have largely taken the place of any but 

 Ostrich feathers, with people of refined 

 taste. 



To be sure, bandeaux of separated 

 feathers offer a Chinese puzzle as to their 

 origin, Ptarmigan wings and questionable 

 quills appear on walking hats, and the 

 Egret still lingers as the apex of many a 

 diamond hair ornament, but the average 

 is surely better. Fewer Grebe muffs and 

 capes are seen, and whole Terns seem, by 

 common consent, to be relegated either to 

 the wearer of the molted garments of her 

 mistress or to the 'real loldy,' who, in 

 winter, with hat cocked over one eye, pink 

 tie, scarlet waist, sagging automobile coat, 

 rickety Louis heels, and rings Instead of 



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