Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1915 — WOMAN MAKES LIVING BY DROWNING KITTENS [ARTICLE]

WOMAN MAKES LIVING BY DROWNING KITTENS

Also Chloroforms Dogs, and Income from Her Queer Profession Is $2,500 a Year. St. Louis, Mo.—Miss Irene Barton of this city has probabl/ tjje most curious occupation of any person in the world, , for she is a professional kitten-drown-er. She also chloroforms pet dogs whlcn have become old and infirm or have been injured, cremates .their bodies, in a thoroughly scientific manner and performs other work of a similar nature, but her specialty is snuff- > ing out one of the nine lives of a cat She has a “price list” which enumerates the charges for her work. Her smallest fee for drowning a Utter of kittens is 25 cents and she guarantees to do it painlessly at that price. Miss Barton has plenty of money and does not have to work for a living. She started the unique business because she believed many persons killed undesirable animals by cruel methods, and also that too many homeless kittens were allowed to live, only to starve and spread disease later in their lives. She is said to earn as much as $2,500 per year. _ Indifference lathe one thing capable of freezing the milk of human kindness.