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Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Oct 11, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 41.

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Cruel Fashion

By Editor

Cruel Fashion.—We passed a show window of a large store the other day, in which the winter millinery was on display. The chief feature of the display was poor dead birds of various sizes and shapes and colors. We love beautiful things, but in all this beauty of plumage and grace of form we could hear the cry of pain of wounded birds and fatherless, motherless nestlings. Why do not women—tender-hearted mothers, beautiful, gentle maidens and sisters—think of the cruelty which they are demanding, for which they pay the price to the slayer of God's poor innocents. They are not only increasing insect pests, but are leaving God's woods and groves songless. Would they could see the reality as it is; they would rise above the tyranny of Dame Fashion in this respect at least.