Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1911 — HOUSE FOR FELINES [ARTICLE]

HOUSE FOR FELINES

Latest Luxury Is Boarding Place for Stylish Cats.

Buffalo Woman Makes- Specialty of Caring for Handsome Persian and Short-Haired Angoras —A Beautiful Animal, -w-

Buffalo, N. Y. —Greenhouses for cats are the latest thing in winter quarters supplied by the mistress of the cats’ boarding house on Hoyt street, who believes in furnishing her boarders with a sun parlor as well as with sleeping and eating apartments. Heavy builder’s paper and tar paper line the rear wall and part of the roof of this new winter runway, but the remainder is glass, secured from a florist, who has retired from business. Those interested in improving the coats of their prize Angoras should see these fourteen good-tem-pered cats frisking around in the almost wintry sunshine, their fur growing thicker and finer and glossier every day.

Whenever the wind blows too nippingly, every cat retreats to the shelter of the house, which has been freshly lined with builder's paper, and has piles of straw to burrow in. Every cat in the establishment is a handsome Persian except the four short-haired cats, who have traveled from the ends of the earth, and who will leave the boarding house to resume their travels shortly. Although the Angoras are a lordly lot, and come to the boarding house

loaded down with prejudices about what they should eat and how warm an atmosphere they should be allowed to breathe, gradually the little lady of the house discourages these views until the kittens come to enjoy plain food and blasts of fresh air. ,Just at present she is working hard with a small Angora and her two kittens. They were very feeble on arrival, their eyes closed with hard colds and their bodies limp with weakness. Beauty, the mother cat, has had SSO spent upon her for doctor bills, and all three cats have to be fed goats’ milk from a medicine dropper. The milk costs thirty cents per pint. Although the three kitteps have been at the house only a month, they have grown immensely ,and have such high spirits that the other Persians are beginning to wonder if they have

not some low-bred, short-haired blood in their furry bodies. “Taking care of such a lot of valuables,” said the woman of the house, “is a great responsibility. A few weeks ago one of my most distinguished boarders undertook to walk out alone, through a door which I had left open just for a minute. Well, he didn’t come back. I spent a lot of money advertising, and did everything to find that cat. At last a woman who sometimes works here saw a cat which looked dike Smoke In a neighboring house, and we went J after him and brought him home in triumph.”

One of the most beautiful cats in the house is Cinders, whose velvety coat shows all the colors o£ the less brilliant leaves. When the air is not too chilly, Cinders loves to squirm among the leaves which fall from the trees into the open runway, and to dash opt when another cat ambles by, unconscious of his presence, i