The sun., 1919-10-12
4-FOOTED WAITS
TOHAVE A HOME
The Oasis to Enlarge Useful
ness to Include Cats
and Dogs.
FUND DRIVE Is PLANNED
Activities Of the Woman's
Club Reviewed by Miss
Helen Tyler.

hClou ylcTs
There's on Oasis at the Commodore
Hotel No. this story has nothing what
ever to do with prohibition. Oasis is
the name of woman's club which has
headquarters there, and all the members
drink is tea, served at their fortnightly
| meetings
In most ways the Oasis Is like thou
| sand other women's clubs. It's object is
| social. to give New York women and
out OF town women a chance to meet
and chat and enlarge their horizons,
and to encourage, art, music, letters and
the drama. Mrs. Francis Hodgson
Burnett Gertrude Atherton. Martha
Hedman. Mrs. Louis Joseph Vance, Mrs
Oliver HEREFORD, Elisabeth Jordan and
women like that belong. along with
many others whose names perhaps are
not SO familiar.
The club has a practical side in its
expert service bureau, which furnishes
chaperons to members or members
daughters when tho latter are living or
studying alone In New York, and which
does shopping for suburbanites and tells
them where the most exclusive cha peaux,
the most interesting plays. 60. are to be
found. All this is usual enough. but
wherein the Oasis differs from cthe-
women's clubs is that 1t Is planning to
establish home for friendless, aged and
decrepit cats.
Now let no misogynist who with an
imperfect knowledge of the virtues of
relines think to insult women by calling
them cats. leap to the conclusion that
the Oasis's proposed home Is for It's
mar NH af0fn ynt-ta II
them. This institution will be for four
footed cats, also dogs-the down and
cutters among them And 1t Is the Idea
of the president of the club, Miss Helen
Tyler. born of her love for the animal
which the Egyptians worshipped, but
which everybody since those early days
has rather kicked around.
Kitten Found a Home.
Miss Tyler did not always care for
cats. For a good while. being very busy
with play producing and other matters
she got along. happily enough without
cat around the house. But one night
ABOUT four years ago. when she was sit
ting In her cottage at Harmon-on-the-
Hudson. a most engaging little grey
kitten dropped out of heaven. or a tree.
OF somewhere. and chung trembling with
door. Ordinary humanity sent Miss
Tyler out to take in the helpless thing
and feed 1t, and before bedtime that
kitten had a lasting place in her home
and heart
1t is still there-now grown q large,
imposing but very affectionate creature,
and is Miss Tylers loved companion.
And because of him she has learned to
take note of other dumb creatures which
have not been fortunate nough to ind
an asylum such as hers
Lost dogs and oats arc very pitiful,"
she said yesterday. II saw one only
to-day. in Fifth avenue. a dog. obviously
strsyed. with a torn chain hanging from
its neck. rather dirty. as II II had been
wandering some time; looking UP in
peoples faces with a dumb, frightened,
questioning look. Before I could catch
II, It had disappeared. But often do
actually pick up these homeless animals,
and then the difficulty is to know what
to do with them. They can be sent 20
the Humane Society and there de-
stroyed. but l hate to take the life of
any creature while 1t is still capable of
enjoying life. Bide-A-Wee takes some
and finds homes for them. but Bide-A-
Wee can't care for all Of them. and the
last time took cat there they had
sign up. NO More Cats Received
They wore full up with oats.
Must Get Together.
but have a theory that there would
be homes for many Of the homeless cats
and dogs N only We could bring the home
and the homeless together. Fannie Har-
ley. the Western woman who walked up
New York recently by appearing here
In bifurcated garments, tells a story
that proves this. She says she had
cat in her homo out West. a cat that
she loved, and whom she know she must
come East she advertised for home for
her pet. She got forty letters from az
many persons who were willing to re-
ceive him: but the cat, with that I'M
canny sixth sense cats do possess. seemed
to know that his mistress was going to
leave him and he took sick and died.
Miss Harley. determined that those let
ters should not be wasted. went forth
and in the streets of Portland picked up
forty wanosrlng oats. fed and dolled
them up and took them to the writer's Of
the forty letters. who took them In and
gave them homes.
$50 we Of the Oasis are hoping that by
and by. when we have gotten some
money together for the purpose, we can
have q little place somewhere In the
country where the forlorn dogs and cats
one sees skulking about, starved and
homeless, could be taken and fed up and
found homes for. or humaney destroyed.
or course, many persons will talk about
the greater need of homes for children.
But there are those. and the members of
the Oasis want to do their part, do do
II, toward supporting them. We do not
commiserato children less because we
have q little pity to spare for the four
footed creatures that have no speech to
tell us of thoir SUFFERING"
The Oasis will start a drive for the
home for oats and dogs at tea at
which Miss Tyler expects to have Minnie
Maddern Fiske to give a talk. Mrs.
Fiske's love for animals is we'll known.
She is on tour now. but as soon as she
returns to New York the tea will be ar
ranged.
WILSON A M0SLEM PROPHET.