The fashions of this season are changed in the next.

Look, for example, at women's hats; some years ago the "merry widow" which was about two or three feet in diameter, was all the rage, and the larger it became the more fashionable it was.

Sometimes the wearer could hardly go through a doorway.

Then came the hat crowned with birds' feathers, some ladies even placing the complete bird on their hats--a most ridiculous exhibition of bad taste.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals should take up the question of the destruction of birds for their plumage, and agitate until the law makes it illegal to wear a bird on a hat.