April 27, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
523 
OLD-TIME FALLACIES. 
There is one gun now you seldom see. I 
refer to the single-barrel. Years back, singles 
were commoner than, or at all events as com¬ 
mon as, doubles, and as a boy I can well remem¬ 
ber a prejudice against the double gun—only, 
of course, on the part of those who did not 
understand the double. I remember my father 
once going into the garden with his double 
under his arm. When he had gone away our 
old gardner remarked that he greatly wondered 
at the master having one of those double- 
barrel guns. I asked why, and was told the 
double-barrel was very dangerous, the heat 
from the discharge of one barrel very often 
sending the other barrel off! The village bar¬ 
ber—a bit of a shot in his way and more than a 
bit of a poacher—said all double-barreled guns 
were dangerous, as when loading you were very 
apt to put both charges in the one barrel. A 
retired policeman who lived at the other end 
of the village said if you used a double gun 
and fired the right barrel you should not at¬ 
tempt to reload it wntil the left one had also 
been discharged. His reason for this was that 
in reloading the discharged barrel the ramming 
home of the wadding—often brown paper— 
created so much jar as to frequently explode 
the loaded barrel. Finally, loading the dis¬ 
charged barrel (with the other one loaded) 
necessitated the working of your hand, or at 
least fingers over the loaded barrel, with your 
head itself not far away, no matter at what 
angle you held the gun, and this last peril was 
enough to condemn the double barrel, in the 
opinion of the village parson! So it was, any¬ 
way, in our village, where the only double guns 
were those owned by my father, the local solici¬ 
tor, and the lord of the manor, who, strange to 
say, himself perished as the result of a gunshot 
wound in the chest brought about by his gun 
going off while getting through a hedge. All 
this may sound strange to our modern Nim- 
rods, many of whom possibly never had a 
muzzle-loader in their hands. But shooters of, 
or just over, fifty who commenced to shoot at 
about fifteen will fully grasp my argument.— 
Shooting Times. 
WOMEN AND THE BIRD. 
While many American women either from 
choice or because of the law, are not wearing 
the plumage of birds, it is only recently that the 
German women have considered the matter. 
The bird protection laws of Europe are so much 
better than the laws of this country that it has 
been thought necessary to cease wearing 
feathers to protect the birds. Princess Victoria 
has also joined with Princess Eitel and other 
German ladies in deciding not to wear the 
plumage of birds. Prof. Johannes Schillings 
having made the request.—Natchez Democrat. 
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A HOT DAY 
NO PLAYTIME 
FOR HER 
IN NEED OF 
FRESH AIR 
THE BATHING HOUR AT SEA BREEZE 
FROM STIFLING TENEMENT TO 
SEASHORE AND COUNTRY 
Do you know that the New Yorker living below 
Fourteenth Street has an average of only 18 square feet 
of breathing space ? Can you imagine anyone more in 
need of fresh air outings than these dwellers in sultry 
homes, hemmed in by scorching pavements ? 
Neither opportunity nor money is theirs with which 
to seek pure air. For them fresh breezes and outdoor 
freedom arc made impossible by congestion. Every 
penny of their small earnings goes to satisfy pressing needs. 
Mothers, children and babies, broken with toil, ill- 
nurtured, or frail, appeal through us to you for a bit of 
sunshine and relief from care in the country, or at Sea 
Breeze, our seashore Home at Coney Island. 
Would you not enjoy your vacation more if you 
knew that you were enabling or helping 
A convalescent mother to regain lost health? 
A worn-out widow and her children to be care-free for a week 
or two ? 
An aged and friendless woman to gain new life and cheer ? 
A weary shop girl to enioy a glorious week of freedom? 
An under-nourished baby to get fresh air and pure milk? 
An anaemic school boy or girl to win a new start for the next 
year ? 
Won’t you help them? The trouble of sending a 
contribution is nothing compared to the joy that it will 
bring to some of these stifling homes. 
NEW YORK ASSOCIATION FOR IMPROVING 
THE CONDITION OF THE POOR 
R. FULTON CUTTING, president 
A HAPPY LITTLE 
MOTHER 
WHO SAID WE ARE 
AFRAID 7 
HOW THE WAVES TICKLE 
MY FEET 
SUGGESTIONS 
A lawn sociable by 
} our class, Sunday 
school or club. 
A card party at your 
summer hotel or 
camp. 
A subscription 
among your friends. 
A list of people to 
whom we may send 
either this appeal, 
or others similar to 
it, without mention¬ 
ing your name. A “dip" in the tenement district 
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Treasurer 
Room 207 
105 East 22nd Street 
New York City 
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