New-York tribune., 1907-08-30
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Mills Home Hospitable to Dogs and
Cats an Need of Kindness.

A chorus Of barks in all the tones of the canine
diapeson greeted the knock - The Tribune re
porter at the door of the Mills home, in Kings
bridge, yesterday. The Mill dogs are not ad-
dicted barking, Lieutenant OHara, at the
Kingsbrtdge police station, doors away, testl-
fes but yesterday they were agitated IN lheI
minds They perceived that the family was NOV
ing. and dogs and cats and Benjamin FranALlh ~ are
alike in this-they all disapprove of moVlngs.
Mrs Mills and her daughters. the Misses Mad
cline and Stella Mills. are known IN hlnssor1cse
for their kindness to animals
IT'S a fad of theirs, said Lieutenant y fal d:
Sure, they are good hearted. They'll Sit up all
night with a hurt dog or cat -,
4 talk with one of sisters soon shows that
it is something more than fad Recently a ru-
started that the mother and sisters were go
ing to open home for homeless dogs ana cats
The fact that they were moving INTO lai 80 81
house and having the ground in the rear OF the
home inclosed with a close wire renee seeiiiou
10 give color 10 the runlor ~. c.ou, tho
But it's not true protested Miss Stella the
Younger of the sisters And there has never
been anything unusual in care of animals M
a member of the Bde-a-Wee Society, and I've al
ways loved animals. ever since was a it'le cIiu-
1 had them about even before my rather oleu'
But we had a home for dogs ana caIs
we've only our own pets. now, just sixteen dogs
and few cats. We keep them because we loNe
them 1t is that people sometimes bTing huII
dogs and cats to me- and do the best / can LOT
them. because there's no veterinary around mere.
No, 1 never learned canine therapeutics, II 5 Jus'
what ! know by doing 1t. Oh. of course, unoer-
stand first aid TO the injured and on. and people
bring their sick pets to me when they don hho"
what to do for them Children often 90. 90
And have you up all night taking care ol
the sick ones?'
Sometimes" Miss Stella admitted I'm more
likely TO sit up late reading. But have stayed up
help dog cat that was suffering. is 'ueIe
anything unusual in that? Anybody around mere
would sit UP with a sick child. or SICK morse oI
{ w so why should my sitting up with a suffering
dog be thought unusual? But we've nothing hke
home for dogs. I sometimes send or take homeless
or aiIing dogs or cats to the Bide-a-Wee Shelter
when people who find them and don't know what
to do with them bring them to me. You know;
she added there are always some ieaners IN t!tS
-,.-Aa dn
case you're likely to be called TO do it.
The new home of tie Mills family Is just next
door to the old The dogs-cocker spaihels al an;
bulldogs. some of them Tdiua hie-hao not Ee' -
up their quarters there yesterday Two or tnree
cats were looking around. making up tIeir ililuo
about the new place. One gray fellow, with the
thin tail of extreme feline age, came wandering
the lawn. - -
He belonged to a friend, who died. and before
she died she asked us IL We wouldn't take care oi
him II was a year before could get holo OF Iiih'
for he's wild naturally and he Wouian c1n pe
lieve in me at all first He lived that year on
just what he could pick up but he came afo"iiu
gradually. ,,,,
Although she is young woman, Miss Stella
has decided ideas about what should be done for
neglected children and animals in New YORK
There is much to be done she SAID: anu anu
the city should not be called to do IL all Inc
rich people should do il. 1 believe In giving GIVE:
give, Why should one hoard money? of course, II
is all right to have little home ana TO nave sis
comforts of life the money that is not needeo
for that should be used in giving 1 believe there
should be fountains all through the city where AMI
mails could drink. and places where little chlloIeh
could get water. have been in the tenement diS-
trcts in the summer when IL was so hot the pave
ments burned your feet, and the chldren woulG
be bathed in perspiration, so uncomfortaoie- anu
they'd have climb six flights OF stairs perhaps
70 get q drink There should be places in the street
for these children get the water they crave ana
perhaps shower baths, where they could Just pun
= string and get good sprinkle, and then scamper
off and get dry. The children cannot go down 10
the river; there cannot ne men there to Watch
them and they would drown. But go into the
crowded East Side streets on a hot day ana you
will see how the little children suffer for water
There ought to be shower baths for horses 100
Perhaps the city would all this would take TOO
much water but surely there is enough water up
IN the hills
Yes there are many things to be done ana the
rich should DO them. OF course, much Is being Gone
now and | believe in what is done-l believe IN
what Carnegie is doing, for instance. IN that its
results will be fifty years from now But
there are things TO be done for the noW-tle chill
dren TO be rescued. and animals that suffer.
..F3ut as 10 my humane work" Miss Stella added,
why there's nothing unusual In that- 1 We just
done II because I liked it