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Show I : : Very "New Humane Movement Which ;Aims to Give Every Dog His Day and to Relieve Psychologically the Tedium of the Lives of Cats, Horses and Birds WOMEN of wealth and promi nence connected with the Humane Society of Philadelphia Phila-delphia are earnestly and persistently persist-ently advocating the enactment of a law requiring tho owners of animals to send or take them away on a vacation each year. As earnestly and persistently Mrs. Jacob Ehrlich, president of the Horse Aid Society of New York and founder of tho Drivers' Club of New York, composed com-posed of 500 teamsters, whose purpose pur-pose it is to help the horse through teaching tho driver humane treatment treat-ment of the animal, advocates an animal vacation. The society is doing do-ing excellent worlc In this direction, at its new clubhouse, 87 Seventh avenue, New York. Mrs. Ehrlich believes your horse, your dog, your cat, your pet monkey, your parrot, even your pet pig and white mice, need a vacation as greatly as you yourselves require the annual letting down, the yearly relaxation from toil, or change from surroundings. Take them to the country for a month, If you can; for two weeks at any rate. Keep them away from the seashore. sea-shore. They require the grass and treeB and fields. Give the horse a field of lush grass for his stomach, and soaking pots for his burning, tired feet. Take his shoes off. Be sure to take the cat's own cushion along. Put the birds where they can see the trees and carpet their cage every day with fresh grass. Provide them with companions ol their own kind. Animals need society so-ciety as greatly as we do. Tho dog that has Uvea In a fiat all Winter and has guarded your house from burglarB and against fire is "all tired out." He is on the verge of nervous prostration from close attention to duty, and should go where ho can be quite free from care. Tell the monkey's boarding mis tress to only half fill his cup with milk or water. There's a scientific reason. These and other facts are contained con-tained in Mrs. Ehrllch's vacation gospel for pets. "I am -working to the same end and . concentrating chiefly on the horse," said Mrs. Ehrlich, "although I send all my pets to the country. I found my parrots greatly improved by their vacation when I paid them a visit at a farm on Long Island yesterday. yes-terday. "I am demanding that a horse shall have at least every seventh day of rest at his homo in town and that he should have at least two r i ! "Give the monkey freedom weeks in the country during the Summer. Ownere of horses can got more than the equivalent of the expense ex-pense in the increased value and efficiency of the animal. Some horses work sixteen hours a day in a peddler's cart and then take tho family for an outing on Sunday. Ho Is forced to break hia gait, which is . "Every bird needs to see the 02 trees and stretch himself." frJfi. cruelty to the beast. Suppose that Sri f I any middle-aged man or woman S i I ,55 were told to run two miles. Tf he or 8 I she were not accustomed to runnlnc, Xfllhl R I the effort might kill either. The , ' 171 I Jjfffi horse's Sabbath should be one of . f ' rest. He has enough exercise dur- A v ing the week and should be allowed ' 1 and only half a cup of milk." to stay in his stable on Sund. y. When ho awakes, a bucket of freBh water should bo ready for him and he should have his breakfast of four or six quarts of oats. Ho Bhould have a second meal about three o'clock in the afternoon. "There should be a law preventing prevent-ing taking out a working horse on "Dogs get as tired of their owners own-ers as wives of their husbands." Sunday, especially for a pleasure Jaunt, when be would have to break his gait. If the day is hot, the family fam-ily want a breeze. The wav to get a breeze Is to force the horse to trot. And if ho isn't used to trotting, this is arrant cruelty. I would have every one sent to jail who makes an animal (break his gait. "When Summer comes, the horse should be sent to a farm. Not to the seashore. The horse that is forced to -wade in the surf loses more by his shivering fear of the waves than he gains by having his feet washed. I see no healing in the seashore for animals. The sea air is overstimulating to them. Dogs seem to lose their senses at the shore. They go crazy, as It seems, and because they jump wildly about their owners seem to think they are getting 'tho air's worth.' We should Instead remember the physician's injunction: 'Twenty minutes a day for four weeks are enough for conr secutivo sea bathing.' The limit of endurance for human beingB is a fair gauge for animals. "Horses, dogs, cats, monkeys, birds, even white mice, need the grass and trees and tho healing of tho earth. When I turn my dogs loose on tho ground in a yard in the country they actually eat the earth. I bavo seen a apanicl devour two teaspoon-fuls teaspoon-fuls of earth. Cats need grass. They A Somewhat Fanciful Idea of How an Old Racehorse Would Spend His Vacation. devour it. If you have ever seen a cat rolling in a catnip bed you will know the ecstasy It brings him." Mrs. Ehrlich' has the eyes antl air of a zealot, A millionaire's wife, she spends all the raonoy ,that most women would pour into society channels chan-nels for alleviating the condition of animals. A tiny woman of eighty-seven eighty-seven pounds, she looks like a smaller edition of Maude Adams. She drives a touring car of her own, that usually has one or more animal passengers, for if she sees a stray-dog stray-dog or cat she picks it up and endeavors en-deavors to find a home for it. To applicants sho always 3ays: J'Do you live In a flat?" If they reply, "Wo do," she replies, "Then I am sorry, for I cannot let you have this little beast. No animal should live :u the confining iiuurtcrs of a flat." Last year sho picked up three hundred hun-dred such strays, and to those for whom she could not find homes sho administered chloroform. Like certain cer-tain other notables, sho was "born in old Kentucky." and the habit of love for, and companionship with, animals persists. "Prescribe a horse's vacation, please," said an interviewer from this newspaper. "It should be for a month if possible," pos-sible," sho said, "though I am only agitating one for two weeks, for, given that, a longer vacation will follow. The horse should be taken to a farm and placed in a field where-there where-there is a marshy corner, or, if not, soaking tubs should be sunk for him. You won't need to lead him to .he marsh or the soaking tub. Ho will stand in it of his own accord. His instinct, and tired, feverish legs will lead him there. Before placing him in his pasture his shoe3 should bo taken off. The relief i3 as welcome wel-come as when you remove your hot street shoos. When you do this, what is your first instinct? To plunge them into water. The horse has the same instinct. "If he has fallen hoofs, the wisdom wis-dom of his own instinct will lead him straight to the mud. If his legs aro swollen and fevered, he will seek the tub of water. Better if it have ice in It, Thoro should be a shade Mrs. Jacob Ehrlich, M in Vacations forAS tree in ono comer dlijiK the horse needs to &ro!dt3H rays of the sun as nrdjgS Ho suffers as much frcaiM as do Tve. Tho water fa ttjK tubs Bhould he chiattd'iB once a day. 80 should tkaB "The Boaking tubs ujlX of a vinegar barrel cut la them into the earth u tkR per part will he on a hnliB grasB. The hoite turned ctlflj will show improvemat hfl days. An old horsa rlihiB the hoofs loosened iron tR came a different-looking mM was worth twice ai nuk'H "Animals have, the f&:jH logical noed of rat u &Xi er.s. The dog that 11th cxM flat with us contlnnoulj jM, tired of us and la u peitifH of a vacation as are hs&Hi wives. Husbands and each other's nerves, So the nerves of our dcf. HB duties have taxed him. HiK alarm In case o( fire. HiV with one eve open for fcijK nerves have been taut HtH completo change- He ooiiH sent away from the boardod in the country. gH be sent where he cii !H companionship and rfi&qH will be kind to him. HiiH allowed to play at thD !H yard or Hold, and (i he ctijB ing. all the bette- liedH twice as much to cat uiH he is rebuilding hUWjiB Ing his strength vB "Monkeys are ncrroa&jB need a change from ,ifJ!B soclates, so It is urellt&JjB away in the Summer lttjH boarding house keepers loip double rations and 'jH nmong treos and lWW feeders to wkcr P" more than half full of3J1uM' Invariably a monker Wm tho contents of theciiMWp suppose they do thatr "Perhaps they're ':a "B: ters spill soup or jmW siiirt fronts, and 0SlB be neater than thofJB "I think it IsaM the time when r.jm to brush the scum tta. In the ancestral juyg- What of a nawxmu mice, or guinea vp,U snakes?'.' . .,, Ami "Ugh! I love aa'iJBr understand that decadent tasto J$M cioty of a snake. have normal uesJK |
