This is an article from the 1910 Technical World Magazine, condemning the fashion industry for using the feathers of grebe birds for women’s hats and by extension condemning women for killing birds for their vanity.
The illustration as the baby grebes asking “Where’s my Mommy?” and the infant replying “On my Mommy’s hat.”
Ironically, 1909 was the year President Teddy Roosevelt travelled to Africa for a safari and ‘collected’ 512 beasts including 17 lion, 11 elephant and 20 rhinoceros.
In this particular folio 1910 of Technical World Magazine, someone had written “how awful” over the page. There’s an article in the same folio about poor people in cities who live in windowless rooms, as well as articles on the other social problems of the day. No comments there.
In my next chapter of Flo in the City, my novel in progress about a girl coming of age in the pivotal 1908-1913 era in history, based on the letters of http://www.tighsolas.ca/ Flora will finally get an interview with the local milliner, Miss Eugenie Hudon, and the local milliner will trick mother Margaret into buying a big hat she doesn’t want, which really happened.
