Women and Savages by Western Humane Press Committee

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 29, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 29.

Women and Savages

By Western Humane Press Committee

ASIDE from humane considerations, aside from the desire to protect harmless living animals, aside from a new sense of the enormous money value of live birds as insect destroyers, aside from a realization of our idiocy in destroying one third of all our useful birds before we knew better, aside from our dislike of worm-eaten apples and worm-eaten corn, are feathers of song-birds artistic on a hat? They are parts of dead bodies. Are they suitable personal ornaments? Do they please and satisfy people of artistic taste?

The savage, who kills the bird himself, and wears it in ignorance of economic laws and all the rules of art, is the only consistent human wearer of feathers on his head.—Western Humane Press Committee.