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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE WISCONSIN AND ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETIES. 
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Published by the Wisconsin Audubon Society at Appleton, Wisconsin 
Entered as second class matter, May 16, 1904, at Appleton, Wis.. under the act of Congress of Mar, 6 ’79. 
VOL. XII. 
JUNE, 1909. 
No. 2 
THE WOMAN’S HAT AND THE BIRD. 
When will women learn to keep birds 
[; off the hats? That the ostrich feather 
and the coque are the only ones to be 
worn humanely? What more beautiful 
trimmings does one want than gold and 
silver, silk and satin, in myriad forms, 
the graceful 
o s t r i c h 
plume, and 
flowers of ev¬ 
ery color and 
ilk? Surely 
women might 
ought, must 
content them 
I 
selves with¬ 
out torturing 
j and destroy- 
- iug flying 
things whose 
presence 1 s 
needed to pre¬ 
serve the nat¬ 
ural equilib¬ 
rium. Birds 
eat insects, 
insects eat crops—ergo, 
a birdless world be like? 
“Why not be eclectic, choose the good 
in a fashion, refuse the bad, have the 
courage of our convictions? Three 
years ago fashion decreed the hoop skirt 
I but they did not come in. Our vanity 
will not avail us long, for soon the 
Egrets and the Terns, and a host of our 
S 
singing and flying feathered things will 
be gone, and then we women will have 
to do without them. Why not be dig¬ 
nified, and stop now! Their, life is in 
our hands, in the hands of women. 
’, with a sec¬ 
tion of the 
back, from 
t h e mother 
bird, who is 
left to die. 
These won¬ 
ders of feath¬ 
ery beauty 
are her wed¬ 
ding dress. 
That means 
the miserable 
death of her 
whole nest of 
fled g 1 i n gs , 
who left with¬ 
out their pro¬ 
tector, hun¬ 
ger and shiver 
till death re- 
Can any woman wear an 
Egret with this picture of suffering and 
cruelty hanging around it? 
There is a large wealthy firm down 
town that handles nothing but Egret 
feathers. They are so precious as to 
be sold by the ounce. The men who 
murder and traffic in these are no worse 
than the women who make the traffic 
The Egret feather is cut 
•ISN’T THIS SLAUGHTER PERFECTLY TERRIBLE l " 
From the Chicago Tribune. 
What would leases them. 
