Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-02-25

Lady-bir nor butterfly
Nor moth with dusty wing,
Nor cricket chirping cheeriy.
Nor grasshopper 50 light of leap,
Nor dancing gnat, nor beetle fat
Nor harmless things that creep.
SEVENTH GRADE, THIRD DIVISION, Miss I. B. Davis,
teacher), ANNIE LEONARD, age ID, 6A ID street
southeast
Our country Is, like the ocean on a windy day,
decidedly wavy. We have not only hot waves and
cold ones, but waves OF temperance, religion and
reforms OF various kinds. The wave ripping
around us at present Is that OF Kindness to ami
mails For the time being it Is the object OF every
Weil-regulaJed mind THAT which Is to be talked
and written about and made the subject OF our
thoughts generally While the feeling lasts socie-
Ties for It's promotion and consequent prevention
OF cruelty TO animals will be formed, and pocket
DOCKS VIII open, as by magic to sustain Them but
When the wave recedeS, then-why then the socie-
ties Will die q natural death, and things he pretty
much as they Were before.
vi course, while the wave lasts, We feel very
proud OF our interest in the matter a iatter our
selves that we are very far advanced in civiliZa-
ton, indeed. TO have arrived at this point
But let us look back couple of thousand years,
and We will find that India was far ahead OF our
present position on the subject even then Tie
doctrine of Butldha, where it bears on the animal
God. who had become fncarnate Is represented as
passing, during a famine, starving tiyreSs and
her TWO cubs, whose misery SO eXcite5 his compass
sion that he
Forth from behind the milk bush i on thu n sa rs'
WRerea the rrshins beast yeeed hoaae and hru
S Tprs wi , her cubs and harlias e the earth
VT Nth hall: all the cooked daggers of her claws
Bsthe in bsIoi t The nst se,oT iamgs ,,.,
Mixed with tie last sigh Of such fearless love"
Surely greater kindness To animals than the
family Ike that cannot be conceived: and if onIY
some people {Iuiteau and few mere could mem
tion) would feel like Buddha on the subject and
go ana 90 likewise" what comfort 1t would be
to the tigers, and the people OF the United States
as we'll.
Aside from all other considerations though. and
viewed from little girls standpoint, 1t seems to
me that 40 noble, brave man viii or can be guilty
OF nnSin e TO helpless creatures; and its my
opinion That any one who is unkind to animals
Will De the same to human beings, unless deferred
by fear or coDSeaue nceS.
And here may as well protest against species
OF unkihiheSS toward defenceless creatures
which very much concerns myself. There are a
number OF US confined, during great part OF the
day, within walls from Which the water rms in
streams and where the ceiling Is In chroni: state
OF rupture. Some fine day it Is going to fall and
then somebody will be hurt; after which there
as usual resolution that nobody was TO blame. y
which will end the matter-unleSs the Injured
chids parents should so cunning for the guilty
parties
Another species OF unkindness consists in OPEN
ing the windows and letting the cold drallght
pour r, IN upon us when we are just getting COM
kills more children than anything else. 1 hope
some BODY viii teach these unktnd people how
wrong Their actions are, and make school life a
pleasure instead OF q torture to us
EIGHTH GEADE, SECOND SCHOOL DIVISION, Miss
CARA Z. Baker, teacher3 MARY A. HANLEY age
IA, 1914 5th street northwest
To be kind to animals it Is not necessary that wa
should keep in mind the idea that In doing so wa
are only obeying Divine law, that God, who Gre
ated us, created them also, and that He exact5
from US a recognition OF their authorship. There
Is higher and better reason for treating animals
kindly-it Is our common humanity which should
teach US TO refrain from doing that which would
give pain to anything possessing life
That an animal has no soul to survive the death
OF IFS pody Is no reason why we, by lndiscrminate
and lnhuman abuse, should render It's short life
one OF pain and misery. The harm resulting frena
this abuse Is, however, not merely confined TO its
subject. It reacts on the abuser and shows its
DaIefui elects in blunted moral perception and
aaetenoraled moral standard THIS is found to
be the case In countries where the general stand
ara Is q low one, and where brutality has uncon-
tr0led sway.
In the CLEAN which lights ND an animaIs eve
we read an appeal to cur better nature which
prompts US, II we be not insensible TO it's dumb
argument, 10 treat 1t with the kindness and con-
SderatiOn which we wOulf naturally extend tn a
FELLOW creature. Kind treatment brings out the
se1 qualities OF which animals are capable, and
makes them dotdle, levable, obedient and faithful
IL IS noticeable fact that in Arabia, where the
nnest oreeAf or horses are produced, that animal
even speak harshiy to his horse
ANIMALS have given proofs OF the possession OF
Conscience reason, obedience, fidelity and many
OSifer equally line qualities The dog is one OF the
most oocile ana faithful OF animals and has dis
paayed unexalnpled bravery in saving human life.
ne uo2S Oh ~. Berlard are famous the world over
,of tneir snceeSful efforts in rescuing travellers
lost in the Alpine SHOWS. We have on record the
Sofy ot The Coz or Bercuianeum, which is worthy
70 oo placed OF: par with that OF the sentinel Of
POInpen When the ruins OF the former citv were
unerthed, thc skeleton OF a dog was found
Stretched over that Oh bis young Master, whom he
had probably shielded from the danes and srnoke
until his death by sunocation.
MISUNDERSTANDING all We owe to animals and the
many line Qualities OF which they have shown
themselves capable. their cruel eatrnent his basn
from the earliest time the rule rather Than the
eAeeptlon- Mn aave, IL appears always permit
ud thelr brutality TO gain the aScendent:y over
their better nature. Rome, In her paImy DAYS.
was tho favorite theater Of gaaiatoriai sports the
the NTH century after Christ Bullb,,itIn1
SUI rlyoritc amusement in SPAIN was aboiisaed
In England In 1873. although bear-bajting In the
latter country was interdicted at the time OF the
commonwealth.
Cruesty; EN- now, is perpetrated in so many
somewhat difficult but one method IN pa rtiru,or
nay be mentioned, because its j,fststableDess ia
s SUI ihoo'ed point This IS vivfsect0n without
medical schools to gratify the curiosity of SIN
dents wnfa no question OF medical or scientific in
ss,cS, Is n STAKE The enormous amount OF
Guessed at when We are told that MaiensIie the
celebrated French Psychologist, dissected alive
n 600 dumb animals and ut his deartl confessaS
viefsectfoi 10 be failure. DR.. Brown-Seu,ari OF
faris mas been scarcely less brutal and IL Is sad
nts iaI!icted more cruelty on animals than any
man alive. ~ '
Since fhe beginning Of this century there has
ocen IN progress rapidly growing crusade
IreIeaton OF Cruelty 10 Animals had It's Oriri n In
faglan', anil now has large membership In both
co1atrFcS me chief leader OF the movement here
- Henry iiergh, resident OF New York city.
through his vigorous and untiring efforts the so
siety mas peeD placed on a permanent basis and
mas established branches all over the cOuntrv
doubted o - NV w oo
a huharec years ago the idea that dumb AMI
mails had legal rights was treatcsi with scnrn and
defiso ana iniiniuah sports received the sanction
OF authority; while now legislative enactmcntS
ba.ocs sfLrts ct former times have been rightly
aLo:sslcsL y 3 not 70 be supposed that we have