LADY WARWICK'S SUGGESTION.
A very clean-cut and useful speech was made from the audience by Lady Warwick ; and it is hoped that her principal suggestion will be adopted in many country villages. She described what was done to keep down the rabbits on her own estate. No traps are or have been used ; and expert hands, by the use of the ferret, catch and dispatch instantly the bulk of the many hundred destroyed annually. Her practical suggestion for the suppression of the steel trap was that it Should be made a plank in the platform of the Wdmen's Institutes. If a large number of Women's Institutes in the West would organize protests against the steel trap, they alone might be strong enough to instigate legislation. The Press would be with them, local opinion, outside the few actually concerned, would be with them, and local sportsmen would certainly be as keen as the humanitarian societies themselves to support the campaign. It would be a fine thing it the women of England should prove their power in such a cause. That would be a tribute to fame indeed'. Such an endeavour, insistently pursued, would establish and ennoble an already great land noble association. If kindness to animals is not a proper, quality of woman, what is ? Women Might also, as suggested, refuse to buy trapped rabbits ; and all are invited to sign a petition to Parliament now being Organized by " The Council of Justice to Animals " at 42 Old Bond Street, W.1.. The final letters refer to the address, not to Women's Institutes !
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