The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13

once. She had very bad disposition
and unilateral methodology. Mos
cats will grant you some areas OF
tolerance-allow that you can under
stand what they want you to do next
by their actions or by actually giving
you the meow talk. Not my cat, she
trained me on the straight mistress
slave relationship. If the door was
to be opened she did not stand by the
door waiting for me to finally catch
on-she didn't talk, she moved me
with her hooks. When the needles
struck my knee | moved like a robot
to the door to let her out.
Harsh and dictatorial methods are
hard to put up with in people let alone
a cat. But she had redeeming fea-
ture-kittens. The most beautiful
kittens you ever saw. And plenty of
them.
One of her kittens made good.
Which brings us to the theme of this
column-old people.
My friend Corrine Byrd was cook
for a bankers widow and she took
one of the apricot colored kittens
to the house where she worked. The
kitten had inherited his mothers dis
position and became lord and master
of all he surveyed. Corrine and the
widow were drawn quite close to-
gether by the scandalous behavior of
the apricot cat. He took over the
punch bowl as his mapping place and
the petty-point needle work seat on
the antique chair seemed to sharpen
his claws just fine.
The widows will stipulated that
the apricot cat should have month
ly maintenance check if Corrine
would look after him. This arrange
ment worked well for it served two
purposes. 1t gave Corrine an assist
she needed and it suited the cats
within to continue in the manner to
which he had become accustomed. A
very dignified understanding existed
between the three, Corrine, the widow
and the apricot cat. But they are
gone now.
On the other side of town age did
did not come so graciously. The barn
was full of cats and the old lady sat
in her chair. Attrition had taken what
friends and family she had had. The
girls would stop by on
the way home from school to carry
out the garbage for she was con-
fined to her chair and lacked funds
for medical attention. Medication
consisted of mickey of whiskey
scrimped out of the welfare check,
once month.
The reports became alarming so
the famous doctor who lived across
the street was called in. He looked
at the leg and ordered the ambulance.
She said that if she was moved |
from the house she would die and
she did die on the way to the county |
hospital.
In the Governors reception room
asst week Missoula rest home opera
5ors conferred with the committee |
itself with the problems
Vt aging.
Montana does not present a very
,retty picture at present, however,
tribes are being taken but not with
'ut pitfalls in our path.
Some of the rest homes remodeled
nothing but collec-
i've squallor. Four in a 10 feet by
o feet room of which one is female.
Interruptions operators allowing
My few visitors to a patient only
1 the presence of the operator. Lack
f sanitation in fire traps. Many ills
re reportable but the efforts of the
'oard of Health and the committee
n aging spearheading legislation
ill have a cleansing effect.
We are about five years behind
hat backward state of North Dako-
a in care of the aging. They do not
ave single remodeled residence in
peration. All of their facilities have :
cen specially constructed for the
urpose for which they are intended
However, anyone interested in rest ;
ONE facilities should beware of the :
Experiences of Phoenix operators who ,