People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — The Osprey Aigrets. [ARTICLE]

The Osprey Aigrets.

I am told, in regard to osprey plumage, that milliners are now overcoming the scruples of conscientious lady customers by assuring them that the aigrets they offer for sale are artificial. Let none of my lady readers salve her conscience with this fiction. These pretended artificial plumes have been repeatedly submitted to naturalists, who have pronounced them to be the genuine feathers of the female osprey, over which there has been so loud an outcry. I believe I am right in saying that nothing approaching to an imitation of osprey plumage has yet been manufactured.—London Truth.