The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-24
A HOME FOR POOR PUSSY.
Where Cats Find Refuge and Safety froI
Bows and Dogs.

Where Cats Find Refuge and Safety from
Boys and Dogs.
In Pottstown, Pa, where broad
brimmed theology still casts benevo-
lent shade. refuge for cats is one Of
the charitable institutions. In this
establishment all sorts and conditions
of pussies are nursed and cared for.
irrespective of age, sex or religion. A
comfortable middle-aged woman is the
matron and physician in charge while
small girl is employed as assistant.
Boys are not allowed; they excite the
cats.
( ture. SO tender and skiliful her hands,
that she has large outside practice IN
addition to her hospital work The
worst manned cat is carried in a basket
/ softly lined: little kittens are conveyed
to the institution in the pockets of the
superintendent, while the wounded are
bound up with magic salve spread on
rags. Broken legs are set in splints,
while the animals whose backs are
broken. are put out of their agony
! with chloroform and decently Inferred.
Shy kittens are held by the nape Of
the neck while dab of butter is pu.
upon each of their feet. Then they
are set down in a corner to lick their
paws and reflect BY the time the but
ter and cheerful reflections are alb
sorbed. the little ones show renewed
confidence in human nature by trotting
ND to the matron and demanding more
butter.
One room is entirely given up to tbs
hospital ward. Ingenious little ham,
Knocks rest the broken bones and suffer-
ing bodies, while strong odor of cat
nip fills the air. But catnip is by no
means the only medicine employed. In
| fact, the matron asserts that it serves
rather rs tonic than as an absolute
cure. She processes to know much of
| herbs and decoctions of mysterious
properties. The kittens, too young to
lap milk, are fed by means of glass
eye-dropper. In the same manner cat
nip tea is administered to them. 1t is
a plan to be recommended for use by
persons who are obliged to bring up
motherless cats by hand from extreme
l
ton described are cared for on sunny
porch. a wire netting preventing excl
ting visits from strange and healthy
cats in neighboring yards.
Through all this kind treatment tho
cat nature seems to remain unchanged,
notwithstanding the .matron's asser-
ton that her patients are very "huming
- Aa1 e.
they make their escape into the outside
world through hole in the back fence.
Some times such adventurers are re-
turned in the hospital basket, one-eyed,
no-tailed, and in one instance lacking .
paw. With tears in her eyes the mat
ron told of the tragic end of one hand.
some Maltese, which she had brought
up from kittenhood. Said she:
'It were a beautiful cat, but bad.
When he got big enough he would
squeeze out under the gate and stay
away nights. There were a sick lady
about block away. and Tom would go
and veil under her window. One night
her husband got mad and threw rock
at him. 1t knocked him off the fence,
and he died.
The institution takes in boarders.
though with some reluctance, because,
as the matron says, the boarding
pussies 'gives themselves airs and stirs
up the other CATS But the boarders
pay well, and good mousers are rented
out, while many cat lovers relieve the
home of pretty kittens. The estab-
1ishment was originally endowed by an
old lady with sum of money sufficient
for its support, and it receives occa-
sional donations. Small sums are con.
tributed by little girls, who have been
bereaved of beloved pussies, but the
small boys seem to send their pennies
further on.-Washington Star.
In the sixth and seventh centuries
there were all over Eurore parochial,
cathedral and convent schools.
English education really dates its
origin from the grammar schools FORM
ed in many points in England by Ed
ward VI. and Elizabeth.
Diligence is the mother Of good
luck, and God gives all things to indus
try. Then pillow deep while sluggards
sleep, and you shall have corn to sell
and to Benjamin Franklin.
Whatever may be the mysteries OF
life and death, there is one mystery
which the cross of Christ reveals to us,
and that is the infinite and absolute
goodness of God.-Charles Kingsley.
The system of Pestilozzi taught
that form, number and language are
the elements of knowledge, and that
thorough acquaintance with them in
every phase constitutes education
In Athens every citizen, under Sc
we're penalty was obliged to teach his
sons TO read and to swim. If he did not
also fit him for some trade, they were
not obliged to support him in his old
age.
Rev. Robert Mcintyre, of Denver,
has created a sensation among his con-
gregation in that city, says the New
York Tribune, by asking that his sal
airy of s., 600 be reduced TO 81, 600. tie
thinks the sum he receives az present
is at least twice as large as it should be
in hard times.