THE BIRD STUDY BOOK 



dently lay close to her heart. Indicating a cluster 

 of paradise aigrettes kept in the office for exhibition 

 purposes, she looked me straight in the face and in 

 the most frank and guileless manner asked me to 

 sell them to her for her new hat ! The rest of the day 

 I was of little service to the world. 



What was the good of all the long years of un- 

 ceasing effort to induce women to stop wearing bird 

 feathers, if this was a fair example of results? Of all 

 the women I knew, there was no one who had been 

 in a position to learn more of the facts regarding bird 

 slaughter than this one; yet it seems that it had never 

 entered her mind to make a personal application of 

 the lesson she had learned. The education and re- 

 straint of legislative enactments were all meant for 

 other people. 



Ostrich Feathers Are Desirable. — How is this deep- 

 seated desire and demand for feathers to be met? 

 Domestic fowls will in part supply it; but for the 

 finer ornaments we must turn to the Ostrich, the only 

 bird in the world which has been domesticated ex- 

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