Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1910 — Help “Queen Mary’s Bill.” [ARTICLE]

Help “Queen Mary’s Bill.”

London Milliners Now Oppose Use of Plumage In Hats—Probably Will Become Law. London.—The next session of parliament Is ilkely to be enlivened by an Interesting debate on the plumage bill in joduced before the close of the last session by a private member for the purpose of prohibiting the sale or exchange Oi plumage birds, which are sacrifice in euormoua numbers on the altar of fashion. The rumor that Queen Mary herself Inspired the bill Is sufficient to promise an active and successful campaign, slnoe the great millinery establishments which had formerly opposed such measures are not likely to offer any opposition. Indeed, the Interviews obtained by the London press from representatives of the millinery trade have brought forth some curious statements which are diametrically opposed to those uttered In the same quarters a year ago. Then the trade cited the Parisian milliners and the demands of their own customers. The former, they said, set the fashion, while the latter were slaves to It Now they sing a different tune. Said one fashionable milliner of the West end: “We think It wicked and shameful that so many beautiful birds should be killed and the countries they inhabit deprived of them. Very little objection is urged by our customers against using the plumage of birds killed far food, but these customers are discouraging the slaughter of humming birds and birds of paradise by steadily refusing to purchase hats in whose decorative schemes they appear.** “You would be surprised.” remarked another milliner, "to know how the sentiment against the Indiscriminate slaughter of beautiful birds has developed among our fashionable patrons. There are many, of course, who will have feathers at any cost, and if the bill prohibits the Importation of

birds of gay plumage these ladles, instead of patronizing London millinery establishments, will go over to Parle for tfieir headgear." These two extracts from Interviews In quarters least expected show that “Queen Mary's bill," as It Is coming to be called, will probably become a law without much opposition.