Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1911 — GIRLS CARVE CATS [ARTICLE]

GIRLS CARVE CATS

Wellesley Has Nothing on Students at Cleveland College. Heart of Fluffy Little Pet May Turn Up in Bottle of Alcohol in Fair Maid’s Collection—No Qualms of Conscience. ' ' Cleveland, O.—Wellesley college at Wellesley, Mass., where the man-of-all-work about the college has been arrested for stealing cats for college girls to dissect, has nothing on our own Women’s College at Western Reserve—except the distinction oi having one of its attaches arrested, says a writer in the Leader. Wellbsley’s girls, who cut up cats, would be backed off the boards —if we may use that expression in this scientific discourse —if they were to see the stunts that our “dear girls’* at the Women’s college make a part of their daily routine. The Cleveland college girls stop not at the dissection of mere felines. They cut up with great glee cats and dogs, pigs and frogs. Nor do they stop there. They have no conscience qualms about the methods of getting material. Mysterious disappearances of fuzzy dogs and feline diims are common in the East end. Friends of the college girls should be wary when asked by them: “Would you like to see my collect tlon?” One would expect to see postcards or pressed flowers or pennants or some feminine thing like that. But don’t say “yes” too soon. The girl may bring forth the heart of a frog In alcohol and tell you how it was still beating when she took it out in the laboratory. She may take pleasure in showing you the heart of a pig, the special feature of her exhibit. Random pieces of animals of all sorts may be spread out for your inspection. > > v of the girls are preparing such collections to show “the folks” at the Blaster vacation. It seems as if many romances may be spoiled, for can Elsie’s small hands look quite the same again after you know how cleverly she slices up animals with them? Does the fact that she knows how to dissect dogs’ and rabbits’ spinal cords make her quite as desirable for a wife as if she had spent those hours reading history—or hemming up the window curtains for her room? The zoology courses are not cornducted in the Women’B college, proper, so the girls must go to the Adelbert laboratories for them. Those who elect "zoo” —college for zoology—delight in telling all the details of their experiments to their shuddering classmates whom they dub “squeamish.” And they show a great interest in getting “material.” A nice little doggie wanders down Euclid avenue trustfully looking for b*fe master and mysteriously he disappears. He never gets under any one’s feet again, never again chases automobiles, snapping at the whirling tires, never barks—the girls at the College for. Women are finding out just how that bark was made and how the muscles cling around the bone in those legs that made him run so fast. Cats were scarce this past year, so the girls couldn’t get any of those to cut up. Rabbits, dogs and small pigs made fair substitutes, however. The conversation of these girls can hardly be understood by one who doesn’t know. They mutter about strange things that are parts of some animal or other, when they are at their meals and ought to be thinking of salads. “I made one clean little Incision %

this way,” one explains to another, drawing a diagram on the tablecloth with her knife, "and then you see I had only to reach in for the heart —” They are thoroughly Interested — but are they as interesting? More girls each year are taking the course. In some colleges the scientific fever has gone so far that vivisection is employed, but this should be done only in research work, one of the professors at the Western Reserve university believes, so perhaps Cleveland will be spared having its girls learn to kill things by torture.