Bird Slaughter

An American dealer sold last year 2,000,000 birdslrins. All were used for ornamentinwoinan'sattire. Womenought to cry down this vanity that feeds and pampers the destruction of the feathered tribes. The birds sacrificed are of course those of richest plumage, and of course also those that will be least easily replaced. In fact, if this thing continúes, American bird life of the gentier order will pretty soon become extinct. Is not the warfare the American Humane society bas opened upon the birdskin traffic wholly justifiable? We think so. The destruction refeived to contributesnot one whit to human need or human comfort. It adds nothing to tho intellectual, nothing to tbe mental. It is simply wantonness practiced at the beek of fashion, and as silly and meaningless a fashion, too, as ever was spawned from the brain of a man niilliner. There are birds in plenty that shed their plumage to supply ; the vain demand for flaming headgear. Why should the fashion monarchs be inexorable and also demand the bodies of