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PROTECT OUR BIRDS. 



frowned down the cruelty of wearing the distorted death- 

 forms of lovely birds on women's hats. May that society's 

 example outlive that fashion, and remind all women of tender 

 heart, of whatever nation, that the cupidity of the wholesale 

 man milliner cannot swerve them from the humane purpose, 

 never to wear any part or the whole body of a bird as an or- 

 nament. What remains to crown those efforts, is to cultivate 

 a national affection for birds. May every school of our land 

 engender this love for American birds ! May each parent 

 do the same at home ! In all directions, religious, human- 

 itarian, legislative, or economic, let us cultivate our national 

 love for birds. In no better place or time than this of 

 celebrating the discovery of America, can we resolve to 

 protect our birds. 



