In 1910, Technical World Magazine ran an article about how grebe feathers were being used in women's hats. What vanity, the article implied. What cruelty to harmless little birds!  In my bound edition of 1910 Technical World Magazines, someone has actually written "How awful!" on the top edge of the page. This magazine is full of articles describing the deplorable living and working conditions of many Americans at the time, but no indignant words scribbled over them.

Ironically, the same magazine published a number of pictures of Big Game Hunters and Fishers with their 'trophies', all the rage at the time.

There's nothing inherently wrong with this article, which aims to save the grebe, except for the misogynistic 'angle.' The Title: Die in Torture for a Lady's Whim.  Read this 1913 letter to the Editor (one of Margaret's Clippings, Re Women and their Expensive Dress Habits.)