The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-08
THE HOME,
Attitude Of Woman Toward Dumb An
imaIs.

Women have SO long been in the habit
y. onaoinR themselves. and of being
enaoeo, In any question Of responsibility
OUTSIDE OF their own households, that
'hey nave never taken the position they
shouIo take In relation to many affairs
needing reform. Among the matters
where there is still large debit to their
account is their relation TO the treatment
OF dumb animals.
IL Is not yet fully recognized that eve
ryone who takes pet of any sort into
ohe family owes it something Of the tan
oerhess which nature shows to all living
Gnlngs IN giving them the means to pro-
teot themselves, the colors to hide them
selves. the power to feed themselves.
having taken them out of wild life we
owe them all that civilized life can mean
In their regard. But in how many houses
Is 1t faithfully seen that the dog their
oeIenoer, has his regular, suitable and
suhioisnt food, instead Of any chance
bone, his clean drink, his warm bed?
Indeed, in the matter of drink there is
great domestic SHINING; it Is taken too
much for granted that the little animals
go out and care for themselves, and go no
especial provision is made where un-
doubtedly they often suffer cruelty for
water.
| 10 those who take pleasure in the grace
ana beauty of the cat, who believe in her
intelligence and affection, the way in
| "hloh when families go out of town, cats
are iert like the young lions. to seek
1helr food from God, since man has re-
fused it, is not only something PERSONAL
~ painful, but an evident first lesson to
inc children of such families. Even those
VINO DO not love the little animals find
! thelr condition miserably pathetic-sud-
oeniy turned from the shelter of home
and friends to the mercies of outdoor,
deJected, hungry, homeless, the target of
cruel boys, the prey of all their enemies
| II the cat cannot accompany the family,
which 1T has right to do, having been
member of ii, it should never have
| oeen taken in in the first place, or else it
should ba either boarded at SIN nll price
ut one of the homes provided in almost
every CITY, or quietly and painlessly put
to sleep.
| IL mas been member of the organized
household, useful here and ornamental
there, fed and pettod and secure-how
pltlful is the contrast of It's condition
when scurrying through crowded and
hostile streets on it's furtive errands for
| poor morsels. orouohipg under any pro-
teoting fence inE rain and storm,
timid and unhappy, dying weak and
wretched and starved ct lastI
But by far the larger portion of cruelty
makes the horse its victim; and here
again women must be called to account
both for their active participation in it
ana shelr passive non-resistance to it,
In the old days OF human slavery the nc
cHsation of cruelty to the slave was an
swered by the assertion that the slave
was property, and no man was such a
fool as to iniure his own property. But
the horse is property and we see him
misused and abused every time we 90 in
to the street. Not only is he too often
given the load whose hauling is an all
but insupportable strain, and fatally
injurious one, but his harness is allowed
TO gall him and to rub over the sore spot
SO that every movement and every mo-
ment is an agony, he is loft standing
in blistering heat and binding sun, he is
SO badly shod that he wounds himself,
and for economy's sake his shoes are al
lowed to become so smooth that in win
ter he slips on icy and in summer Con
worn pavements, to be pulled up with u
murderous jerk and lash. if lie does not
fall and hurt himself in way that OBJ
liges him to be put out of his misery.
We see him, again in the more elegant
and stylish teams ohecked so faulty that
the curve of his beautiful neck in which
the Prince of the Desert delighted, say
Ing 1T was clothed with thunder, is no
longer line of beauty but a liue of
pain. But pain is nothing accounted of
in tho matter of horses. We see that in
the way they are given over to a stupid
driver who flourishes his whip about
them vents upon them his angry .olesn
or the excitement of his last drink, leaves
them, to be startled by unknown aooi-
uohos dntl I0FouS6b LIS OWA lSSleCU Dy
repeated kicks from heavy boots given
so vioiously that it takes all your cour-
age to acoost him, shame, rebuke and stop
him. We see it moreover in the docking
of the tail and In the short trim of rail
and name decresd By fashion which him
ders the flioking off Of flies and creates
the misery of ons of the oruelest of the
Chinese death punishmsnts in which the
victim is smeared with honey and ex-
posed to flies. One sometimes questions
how 1T Is that woman of delicate sensi-
bilities can allow herself to drive or be
driven behind horse SO mutilated and so
outraged. When women of fashion and
social power refuse to countenance it that
outrage at any rate will be ended, and SO
at the same frown will that Of the his
check rein cease. -Harper's Bazaar.
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