Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1912 — Not for the Bird Lovers. [ARTICLE]

Not for the Bird Lovers.

Many of the feather fashions of this season will be bitterly opposed by the bird lovers, and there are happily many women who hare the courage of their convictions and who will Ignore the decrees of Mme. la Mode and frankly show their preference for the graceful floral aigrettes sow being made. \ flowers are suggested as a substitute for feathers that have been procured by cruelty, but it may not be out of place to point out to the gentle dames who wish to protect bird life that it is at least equally their duty to see that In the modes they are ready to adopt they are not aging the sweatshop evil. Silken roses and velvet pansies may entail as great hardships as the or the oeprey.