THE JUNIOR LEAGUE

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20464, 2 April 1938, Page 21 (Supplement)

THE JUNIOR LEAGUE

I will try to make any animal I Dear Boys and Girls, I was having- tea this afternoon with a lady who told me, in a very grieved tone, that three or her cats had come home with -broken leg’s or missing feet, througn having been caught in rabbit traps. Those or you whose homes are on farms, will, I hope, prevail upon your fathers never to allow those cruel steel traps to he set on your farms, it is so much kinder to shoot rabbits. I understand the trapper goes round and sets his traps, ana tne next day or even later, he goes round again and collects the animals caught in the traps, sometimes they > are dead from pain and exhaustion. Just think what their suffering must have been. IT people thought about this, I don’t think they could not eat the flesh of a trapped rabbit. Traps are set for animals in order to get their skins for rurs, too. This is equally cruel. Not long ago l was shown a beautiful ermine necklet, and as I held it In rny hands 1 pictured the lovely little creatures whose cruel death had supplied the skins, and the thought somehow robbed it or an its charm, l suppose we all like beautiful clothing, but to me there ; Is no pleasure in possessing beautiful things, if they bring to mind the thought i of suffering. I -saw quite recently, on a lady’s hat, a beautiful asprey; these are seldom seen because they are so costly. I wondered

SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALB

have In my care very happy. when I saw It. IT the owner knew how this had been obtained, it is tne plume on the top of the head of the female bird or Paradise. The bird sits on her nest on the ground among- tall grass. The men in search or the plumage crawl through the grass and snaich the plume, sometimes the bird dies on her nest as a result. but this does not trouble tne hunter, for he has secured his treasure which will bring him a good sum of money, and soon the graceful plume is seen on the hat or a wealthy wearer. This is just another example of getting pleasure by first of all infiicting pain. I wonder if any of you have read or the Jack London Club? This is a society, the members or which never take pleasure in anything which has caused pain to animals. Its members never attend a circus, or any entertainment where animals perform, because It Is well known their training Involves suffering. Even If we are not members of this society we, as members or the Jun- , lor League can abstain from taking • pleasure in any such entertainments. I There is so much that Is beautiful in I the world, and so many ways on enjoying i life, that we can afford to turn our backs i on those pleasures which are got through j cruel processes. ! With love to you all. 1 TINKERBELL.