For many seasons, lwd doubtless by the requirements of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the fashionable woman has adorned her head-gear almost entirely with the produce of the farmyard. The beautiful plumes ofthe ostrich form the except the cultivation of the ostrich for ite feathers being an industry involving cruelty, it is said. Farmyard feathers sonnd fusty and dowdy, but these adjectives cannot be applied to. the saucy "wings" made up of drake: iridescent feathers, peacocks' tails and all the rich, quiet tones of turkeys' and pheasants' plumage. Whole sea galls were all the "go" in London last season, and rather pathetic thes looked perched on a sma
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