The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-31
The Ratio Is About Fifty to One
in Topeka.
Scores Always Ready to Shelter
a Homeless Cur.
ORPHAN TOTS ARE A DRUG
The Home for Waits Has Nine
Ready for Adoption.
Deserted TOwser Always is
Snapped Up Greedily.

The ratio of preference for dogs
over children in Topeka homes is fifty
to one in favor of the dogs. There
are fifty Topeka families in which an
unclaimed dog is welcome to one
which will open its doors to an orphan
child.
How does one arrive at this con-
clusion?
Tuesday a news item appeared in
the State Journal saying simply that
Boston bull terrier was in the city
dog pound and could be had by any
one paying the license tax. More than
fifty telephone calls were received i'll
the city hall from persons wishing to
get that dog. Once before as result
of like item the number of such re-
sponses was seventy-five.
But no one wants a little child.
1--WE have ceased to advertise for
homes for orphan children" said Idrs.
George Anthony, president of the To-
peka Orphans Home.
I'VE tried it for a while. but found
it useless. At the most only one. or
two persons ever called to get a child
as a result of our advertising. And
then they did not take any. If a child
had light hair, they wanted one with
dark hair and if the hair was dark,
then light was preferred"
But homeless dogs encounter no
catcher can find a home for any dog
by inserting a one-line item in a news
paper.
II can not understand why persons
will caress and fondle and bestow af-
lection upon a dog when they might
be doing something for a human be-
ing" continued Mrs. Anthony.
Nine Without Homes.
For nearly year we have had
twelve little children with us for
whom we have been trying to find
homes. We have just found homes
for three, we have nine left
rs there anything wrong with these
children, that persons do not care TO
have them" she was asked.
Indeed there is not, everyone is
sound and perfect. No child is ac-
copied in our home until it has been
examined by physician and found to
be sound both physically and mentally.
At present we have three children,
all from one family in which the
father and mother have separated.
One is a girl nine years old, another
boy six years old, and there is a baby
three years old, fine children, but no
one seems to want them"
Again dogs seem to fare better than
orphans The best homes in Topeka
are open to dogs from the city dog
pound. So many people want dogs
that the dog officer can pick and
choose. He can select a good home
for the canine waif.
But not so with the little human
cast-offs.
VERY often we have to take a child
back after it has been placed in a
home, because it is mistreated, and
sometimes a child is taken under
promise of its being given perma-'
nent home and is later returned to us
through no fault of the child. fiji
teen-year-old boy was brought hack
to US this way. A man had some
work he wanted the boy to do. He
lasted and then brought him back to
u.s." complained the head of the Or
phans' Home, and as she spoke a big
automobile went by. The only occu-
pant of the back seat was a dog. and
only the dog seemed to notice the
eager little faces peering at him
through the pickets of the yard fence.