NOSE RINGS INSTEAD.

Southern Cross, Volume 8, Issue 31, 17 November 1900, Page 11

NOSE RINGS INSTEAD.

Some one who is justly and righteously indignant at the unfeeling and inhuman slaughter of songbirds writes in the Toledo Blade :

The slaughter of song-birds in the interests of milliners is an inhuman butchery against which all should cry out. From many there have gone out, and still go, earnest protests and piteous pleas ; but from California there has come a proposed remedy that ought to be effectual if enacted. It is as follows :— ‘ Arrest, fine, and imprison not only the men who shoot the innocent songsters, but the unfeeling women who wear the bodies of the birds on hats or bonnets.’ Commenting on this the Chicago Chronicle says : ‘ Undoubtedly this is the way to reach the matter. The birds are killed not out of wantonness, but to supply the demands of the semi-barbaric females who adorn their headgear with innocent corpses. Make the wearing of dead birds an offence and the demand would speedily fall off. The slaughter of the innocents can be stopped by punishing anyone who has in possession the bqdy of a gong-bird. The bereaved milliners and their patrons can console themselves with nose-rings or similar devices which appeal to the savage taste for adornment without doing violence to humane sentiments.’