Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-09-19
DINE AT THE FRIAR'S FARM
New Years Day at the English Home
of Rest for Finely Bred
Horses.

AL euuluc UduQ uel LIDS pIONCO
not the least interesting of the
festivities of the season. The
scene was Friar's Place Farm at
Acton, relates the Pail Mall Ga
zette, where the home of rest for
horses carries On it's benefcent
work of providing a hospital for
convalescents, as we'll as an asy-
lum for the aged, and the occasion
was the annual New Years day
dinner to the inmates. Like other
festal menus, thisone differed from
ordinary fare. Ridiculously sim
pie from the human standpoint, it
was a succession of dainties for
the equine palate. Each inmate
of the 60 or so loose boxes was
presented with a New Years box,
filled with an assortment of bis
cults, apples, carrots and bits OF
sugar and bread, and they
munched these tasty morsels to
the accompaniment of many
caresses and kind words from the
guests who were bitden to the
feast merely as onlookers. There
was no doubling that the horses
knew that their environment was
en- fete. Long before one Of them
seized rope in his teeth, and SET
the dinner bell a-ringing, two rows
Of heads and necks were n0ddine
and swaying out of the open upper
half Of the loose box doors, in in
telligent anticipation of the
favors to come, keeping their eye:
on the tempting titbits as yet be
yond their reach, and dilatin&
their nostrils in shifting satisfac
| ton. Like patients in a hospita
ward, each was identified by ;
! framed card, giving his name, hi
| diet and his treatment, and brie
biographies were furnished b,
the manager Of the home, as eaci
horse was visited in turn.
The all-pervading kindness dis
| played on this day by attend
ants and visitors alike was bu
part CT the system of thoughtful
heEeyolence that obtains all tn
.year round at Friar's Place Farm
The Wo: k OF the institution is bet
| ter appreciated the more widei
| it IS known. Each Of the thre
main objects must enlist the syn,
| pathy OF all lovers of man
nohlest friend among the anima
t creation. First Of all, it enable
| the poorer classes, on moderat
! terms to procure rest and goo
tc,l .-nent for animals that ar
! foii!.g, not from age, but fror
| CO. ,--ous work, sickness, or az
cide1tssl causes, and are likely t
be 1c-efted by few weeks res
| All care. y little timely relief C
this kind enables many faili1
horses to Go further work wit
comfort for years, thus sayilt
tEelr owners unnecessary outla
III purchasing others. Secondl,
1t provides animals for poor Pc
sGHs for temporary use while the
Town are resting in the home.
small amount being charged fe
such loans, and strict guarante te
of good treatment being exacte,
: In the third place, the home pr,
vides suitable asylum for ''ol
favofites" that would suffer h
being turned out only to grass, br
whose owners, instead of destro
ing or selling them for futur
Labor, desire 20 place ;-,c:o =
good reatment for the rest
their days, paying a remunerati1
:, charge for such accommodate
Among the latter class the vi
ltors were introduced to an oil
J chestnut charger whose maste
$ Col. Fludyear, of the SEQ
i guards, had sent him to join IL
e ranks of the other pensioners fl
t life at the Home of Rest fl
t Horses.