The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-26
BOARDING HOUSE FOR CATS.
A Philadelphia Institution Which is
in Successful Operation.
From the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record
A boarding house where the motto is
Eat, drink and be merry" whose board
ers never annoy the landlady with COM
plants about the monotony of the bill of
fare or the toughness of the steak would
seem to be a model institution. Such a
one is conducted at 1912 Lombard street,
and seventeen boarders are free from care.
They possess no worldly goods, never
think of working for living, care not
and know not about the regularity with
which their board bills are paid, and pass
their evenings socially in the exercise OF
natural musical talent. The house is
under the supervision of the Norris Ref
uge Association, which provides meals
ana lodgings for cats of good moral char
acter at nominal rates, and puts home
less, sick, or suffering, felines out of the
The Lombard street house of the as
soeiation is fitted up with view to sup
plying its inmates with all the comforts
OF nome. The greater part of the yard is
utilized as playground, from which a
stairway leads to a second-story room the
walls of which are fitted with shelves,
where the purring creatures may reclne
at ease. In summer, when many families
remove to the country or the shore and
find it inconvenient to carry the highly
priced mouser, that animal is sent around
TO the Morris Refuge Association, where
1t is cared for at y charge of 30 cents
a. week. Last summer the accommodate
tions of the house we're taxed to the ut
most, the daily attendance at dinner often
reaching 100
Little Goldie" is the star boarder The
property of a Fourth street saloon keeper.
Goldie seems to think that in view of
his age, weight and attachments. he is
entitled to the respect and admiration of
all his race. Little Goldie has q years
OF more or less honorable life to his cred
1t. weighs about 20 pounds, and is ever
prepared to maintain his assertion that
ne is twice as big as any cat in the house
At meal hours 1t is his prerogative, as
star boarder, to have a dish all to him
self. He is, moreover extremely Jealous
of any attention bestowed upon the mi
nor satellites who do him reverence and
II visitor careSSes or makes friends with
another cat in Little Goddess presence
the latter's behavior toward the favored
Iellne says almost as plainly as words:
III thrash you before morning." And
he never fails to carry out his threat
Little Goldie has a protege in Iimpie
a cat with a history. Limpie is a nat
ural curiosity, having been born with
put three legs, and no sign of limb
IS discernible where the fourth one ought
to be. This phenomenal cat was the
property OF a woman in poor circum-
stances, who brought him up by hand''
until she could no longer afford the luxury
OF Keeping a cat, and who thereupon
PPiiacea MN as charity boarder at the
Morris refuge. The other boarders are
apt to look down on Limpie as a Char
Ivy cat, "almshouse sport" and the
IKE; but It is generally understood THAI
ne IS under the direct protection Of Little
Soldie, whose anger is not to be lightly
Perhaps the most aptly named OF the
strange tribe is a six-mouths-old Maltese.
answering to the name of sDunraven -
suffering from some mysterious distem-