New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-16
PEI ANIMALS NOW HAVE As Their MASTERS AND
MASTERS AND MlSTRESSES

Though we charge only % cents week to
board bird. it gets a good deal of attention
from US each day. Each day. for instance. it is
fed; each day its drinking cup and its bath tub
are cleaned and filed; each day its cage is
cleaned"
What do your birds eat?"
"Canaries eat rape and canary seed Par
rots eat sunflower seed crackers, bananas and
corn Soft billed birds-robns, for instance or
mocking birds-eat dried flies. ground beef
hearts, ants eggs and meal worms. This SUBJ
ject of the food of soft billed birds is an inter-
esting one in itself.
Our dried flies and our ants eggs come all
the way from Africa. There are native villages
that support themselves by the preparing of
Dlrd foods The women and children busy
themselves from morning till ey ening with
gathering the flies and the ants eggs, and at
night they dry and grind these products 1t
seems odd that people in Africa should earn
their living by preparing foods for birds but
doesn't it seem odder still that people in Penn
sylvania should subsist in the same way? There
are a number of Pennsylvanians who live by
raising meal worms. These are small. brown
worms, an inch long and slender, that soft billed
birds like to eat alive. Here, in this pale sand
do YOU see the wriggling, amber colored worms?
wei, they are bred Systematically; families
make their living breeding them"
The young man pointed out, downstairs, a
table of white enamel and a case of white
enamel and glass, filled with odd steel instru-
ments.
In this room' he said 81 operate 1 per-
form birds and on small animals certain
simple operations. In these operations 1 am al
ways successful, but I never perform them, save
at the owners request
He took packet of letters from his pocket.
1t is Incredible" he said the fOOliShneSS O
some people over their cats aad dogs and birds
1 have some letters here that the owners of
animals and birds sent me before consigning
their pets to my charge"
A few of the letters from the packet follow:
Dear Sir: I going to let you board my
spaniel, Dan, again this August. while 1 am at
Atlantic City. for certainly you treated Dan we'll
last August. Just a word about Dams food He
is accustomed to getting two little snacks be-
tween meals. At 10 o'clock in the morning we
give him a pOached egg and at o'clock in the
afternoon he gets another poached egg You
will remember the time-10 and for the eggs,
won't your"
Dear Sir: My Italian greyhound comes to you
tomorrow Please remember that she is sensi-
tive to changes of temperature See that her
window is down from the top just two inches
and a half every night. Let her blanket be al
ways clean; its washing I will pay for
Dear Sir My cat. Malty. will reach you this
Family is setting out for Lake George,
to be gone till October Treat Malty we'll Every
afternoon get two little girls-it makes no diff
ference who-and let them play with Malty at
least ten minutes. She is used to playing
little while every afternoon with children and
without it she would be unhappy. Also have
saucer of new cream for her in the middle Of
the night. for she wakes up very hungry about
midnight