OSPREYS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 136, 9 June 1906, Page 11

OSPREYS.

Florence Henniker writes as follows to the Daily Mail:— "Will you kindly allow mo, as a member of the committee of the Society for the Protection of Birds, to utter one more protest against, the fashion of wearing egret plumes, described by milliners as 'ospreys'? To tho entirely vain, callous, or stupid wo man, it is, of course, quite useless to appeal ; but as the demand for thosn feathers appears to be as great as ever, it is probable that there are many kindhearted and intelligent people who have not yet realised the fact that every egret plume represents not only the slaughter of a beautiful creature of the nesting season, but a group of miserable little birds crying vainly for their dead parents, and left to perish by the slow agonies of starvation." "Evil," says Hood, "i» wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart." Surely it is so in this case, for it is not easy to believe that any woman who knows tho truth will consent to be even vicariously responsible for wanton cruelty.

One enthusiastic Liberal candidate in England is reported to have declared, amidst frantic cheering, "Mr. Balfouir's fiscal red herring i» coming home to roost |"