Her sister smiled at this outburst and continued: "While I was working
at that morning-glory wreath to-day I couldn't help but watch this bird
of Polly's with its innocent little antics, and it made me see more
than ever how wrong it is to cage and kill them. I just felt as though
I ought to do something to help save the birds and, Kathy, I wonder if
we were to invite some of our friends here some evening and call their
attention to the subject, and explain the wrong to them, if we couldn't
do some good that way? Maybe they'd decide not to wear birds on their
hats."
"We might try, sister, I would be perfectly willing to try; but I'm
afraid it wouldn't do much good, for we have but little influence. As
long as fashionable and wealthy ladies will do it, the poorer classes
will not give it up very readily."
"But they have hearts which can be appealed to. They have feelings
which can be roused," answered the lame girl eagerly. "Being alone so
much I have more time to think over these things than the shop girls
who are hurried and busy all day, and perhaps nobody has ever tried to
show them how wrong it is; but I really believe some of them could be
influenced, if once they would seriously think of the wrong they are
doing. That is the reason, Kathy, I suggested to get a lot of them
together to talk about saving the birds.
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