The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-30
THE EVENING STORY
Antiques and Cats.
(By Donald AIlen.l

turned home for gOOd-then next
comes marriage! The young lady must
hang around until somebody takes
her for good and all. No sign is hung
in the parlor window of Girl Waiting
Here" But she is waiting just the same.
That's the way Alleen Castle looked at
it, and she was Inundated and anger
ed She stood it for a few weeks and
then said to her father:
why don't you advertise in the pa
pers that I have finished with Latin,
French, the classics and all that, and
am now on view at 622 Roseland
avenue ?"
Mr.. Castle was an antiquarian. He
dealt in antiques and was antique him
self. When he was on the trail of one
of Cleopatra's rocking chairs or a Luz
cretia Borgia spinning wheel he forgot
that he was a WidOwer and had
daughter who at least wanted to be
talked to across the dinner table. When
addressed on this occasion he was in
reverie. He was wondering if it would
be possible at this late date to get hold
of any of the relics of Noah's ark, and
he came out of his abstraction with a
start to reply:
BLESS me, daughter, but what were
you saying? Who is on view?'
Il am finished with school and now
what next ?" she demanded.
'Why-why-have you any taste for
antiques 2"
Il hate theml''
Yes, 1 now recall that you do. We'll.
didn't you attend matinee the other
day?"
What's that got to do with the
question:"
That's so, daughter-that's SO. II
will think it over. Just now I'm won
dering if the cliff-dwellers used beer
bottles for candlesticks, and what a
genuine one would cost me-"
Father, do you know I'm going to
do something's asked the daughter as
she rose up
BLESS ne!''
'Ill-I'll-i''
Yes. dear
fI'n open a home for cats if I can't
dc anything else"
Il see. Good idea Funny that no
cats were ever buried with Egyptians!
A stuffed cat dating back two thousand
years would be worth a hundred dol |
lars at least
walked out of the room to tell her
aunt, who was the overseeing house I
keeper that she was going on the |
stage or join a circus.
oh, but you'll get married some
day." was the soothing reply.
But 1 won't. l told father I'd open |
a home for cats. and now I'll do it. |
I've got money of my own, and I'll rent |
a place and
And 1 can recommend a woman to
I'll take charge myself and well
come every cat"
''Alleen Castle!"
you see if 1 don't. If father can
poke away over musty antiques I can
poke away at cats 1t will be milan
thropy anyhow Yes, sir, ri open a
cat home and take in all kinds of
cats
The aunt had little to say about it.
it an idea that would be for
gotten by next day, but she was wrong.
Within three days a building was rent
ed and the sign read: Homeless Cats
Received Here"
Miss Alleen sat behind the desk as
matron, and q boy was engaged to
handle the cats and receive the bites
Nothing was said to Mr.. Castle The
laughter started to tell him, but he
to announce that he was
tbout to close q deal for the purchase
If roll-pin brought over on the May
lower and rolled three times around
he state of Massachusetts, and so he
get no information regarding the new
On tho first day the home was
opened there was one caller. She was
TN old lady, who called to say that
he had cat eleven years old, and |
that cat ever got hilarious and
trayed from home she hoped she
would have the glad hand extended to
Ter at the new place. She was not to 3,
lie punished for her hilariousness, but
ent home in a hat box by the hand {
f very careful and God fearing boy, I
nd she would then be talked to and !
hown the Nervousness of her offense.
On the second day no one called
t looked as if all the cats in town. :
ones included, had a good :
hing and didn't care to change There c
vas almost caller. however. Mr.. r
line WILDWOOD. the young lawyer, with r
IL.
yhen he noticed the sign as something
lew and stopped He saw the sign :
nd he saw the girl, and that was Z
nough for him. He didn't look for I
ny cats going in or coming out. a
When he moved on he was saying to
imseif: i
bright idea. New sign. Good :
boxing girl Really, now y
And he passed again in the after
Don, and three times the next day, t
nd then he called. There WIS no c
uestion of law, but there was a ques- G
hances-
rs this the-the superintendent? %
e asked as he removed his hat L
Yes, SIR
"I didn't know but that -
81 opened the home myself, sir a
"Ah! Well I have cat" +
Gle boarded at a hotel and would
ave kicked q cat out of his room.) >,
'sI have a cat. She is a Persian cat, d
think" b
Gle couldn't have told a Persian a
ON a Connecticut cat)
''She doesn't seem altogether salts
ed with her home.'
mo cat. No home. He was glibly
ing, and at the same time thinking
hat q sweet girl was looking straight
him-o "
she may decide to leave me any :,
ay.''
(The girl was looking puzzled.) :,
And should she decide to abandoni
ct luxurious home and go wandering %
1out. could I replace her with an u