Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — One Woman’s Heart. [ARTICLE]

One Woman’s Heart.

A shameful story, a story that ought to be incredible, printed for truth in Kate Field’s Washington: A well-dressed young woman recent-

ly went to one of the taxidermists of the Smithsonian Institution, carrying with her a bright canary-bird. “I have hunted all over the city for a bird of just this color,” she explained, “because I want him to match a gown I am having made.” She wished tfya taxidermist to kill it and set It up. that she might wear it as an ornament! /• i Thousands oi-wpiben wear birds on their hats, is the pity; but probably no civilized woman ever be l fore bought a live bird and killed it, or had it killed, for such a purpose.