NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.
extract from the report of the committee on dress, by its chairman, mrs. frank johnson.
Birds, Wings and Feathers Employed as Garniture.
From the school-room there should certainly emanate a sentiment which would discourage forever the slaughter of birds for ornament.
The use of birds and their plumage is as inartistic as it is cruel and barbarous.
The Halo.
“One London dealer in birds received, when the fashion was at its height, a single consignment of thirty-two thousand dead humming birds, and another received at one time, thirty thousand aquatic birds and three hundred thousand pairs of wings.”
Think what a price to pay,
Faces so bright and gay,
Just for a hat!
Flowers unvisited, mornings unsung,
Sea-ranges bare of the wings that o’erswung—
Bared just for that!
Think of the others, too,
Others and mothers, too,
Bright-Eyes in hat!
Hear you no mother-groan floating in air,
Hear you no little moan—birdling’s despair—
Somewhere for that?