Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-27
PUSSY In CLOVER.
A Refuge in Gotham for Feline
Unfortunates.
THE VENTURE LED BY A BUDDHIST,

| A Belief in the Transmigration of Souls
| Appears To BE an Element In the En-.
| terprise-Tabby and Tom To BE Fed
Like Princes, But Subject to the Law
of the Survival of the Fittest-Ths
| Bill of Fare.
| NEW YORK, Aug. 27.-The project to
provide home for the friendless cats who
wall nightly on the roofs and back fences
| of this city became fact last evening
Articles of incorporation were drawn up
| in due legal form, and the signatures OF
| the incorporatorS were attached and form
| ally attested before notary. To-day the
| the document was presented to Judge
| Patterson in the supreme court for exam
| ination, and will now be sent to the sec
| dies who are managing the affair, and
| who declared last night that they had re-
solved to devote the remainder of their
| lives to lettering the condition of city
cats, are prepared to plunge at once into
| the work.
The Fittest VIII Survive.
A house has been selected, and the la
| dies hope to take possession next week
One purpose of the scheme is to produce a
| the wholesale slaughter, by painless
means, of sickly, homeless cats of inferior
| breed, and the careful nurture of cats OF
| fine blood and physique. The name of
| the new corporation will be "The Society
| to Befriend Domestic Animals" The in
corporators are Mrs Sarah j. Edwards.
Mrs. Georgia q. Devide, Mrs Emma
Charlton, Mrs. Mary Hama and Mrs Mary
+. Wilson. Mrs. Devde, the leader of
the movement, is young and attractive
woman.
Pussy VIII BE Well Fed.
She said last night: We've got the
| finest place in the world for the poor cats
I'll live in the house, and Mrs Edwards
| niece, who loves cats just as much as do,
Will be there with me and help care for
| the poor, maltreated things oh, we're
| going to have a regular little heaven for
| the cats up there, you know We shall
have two meals n day-breakfast and
dinner. For breakfast the cats
will have milk, oatmeal. aud stale
bread. We shall soak the bread in milk.
Sometimes | shall give them toast They
like toast. You make it pretty brown.
you know, and soak it in milk Well for
| dinner we'll have meat The first course
will be mutton broth, not hot you know,
| but just cool enough for the cats to like it.
After that well have mutton haslet.
| boiled. Haslet is the heart, liver, lights,
and throat of the sheep you know IL is
| good, nourishing food, and cheap"
Theology of the Scheme.
Mrs. Devide is Buddhist She was
| converted to the faith several years ago,
| she says. by reading Edwin Arnold's
| works. She has for years been the cham
| pion of all animals, hut particularly eats.
Il believe, said she earnestly. chat these
poor cats are only the forms in which live
spirits that will some time he human
| expect when | am translated to the next
| higher stage of my existence, to meet
| some time the spirits of these poor cats.
| 1t shall not be, of course. until they shall
| have passed through many other forms
| lastly. the human form. Nellie here and
| l will some day rejoice in company as
| equals in a higher world"
| Not That Kind of Music
But you give up home to move into
| the cat ayslum, do you notS"
YES, | do said Mrs. Devide solennlv.
| MY husband refuses to follow me- He i.
| a professor of music and he thinks this is
| craZiness on my part. But never mind |
| will give my life to help he friendless out
casts of the city, against whom every hu-
| man hand is turned