| Show I I I I I I f LIVES CONSECRATED T D TO KINDNESS TO ANIMALS Couple in Kansas ansas City Devotes Dc- Dc votes Half of Modest Income to Purpose KANSAS CITY Mo June Juna Would 27 Would you rou be bo willing to give more than half of your jour our modest income to make life less rigorous for or suffering animals animals ani ani- mals Such is the sacrifice being made by Miss Sarah and H. H H. H Jacobs of Kansas City Kan across the river from here And It Is no mere passing hobby they the they have been doing this thie for the last quarter century The are aro nationally known for their unselfish work Living in a little cottage surrounded by rose ro e bushes bird houses flower Ueda bedr and fruit trees these two have consecrated consecrated consecrated conse conse- crated their lives to ameliorating the hardships visited mans man's often otten ne neglected neglected neglected ne- ne and abused companions H. H H Jacobs provides the t Income b by b working as a bookkeeper on the Missouri side o Miss Sarah arah looks after the home and its numerous pets HAVE MANY PETS PET And there are many pets in the Jacobs home ten home ten dogs t cats and two parrots The care of these pets however however however how how- ever represent only a minor part pf the activities of the two workers Both are officers in the Wyandotte V County Humane Humane Humane Hu Hu- mane society and labor Incessantly to benefit animal life through that source With all this the Jacobs are not ful of the needs of unfortunate children and even adults of their city as they are active in the Associated Charities Miss 1 Sarah who was found at home busy with her charges said that her first Instruction In humane work worl was when she was a little girl and her father fa father father fa- fa ther taught her that It was Just as easy to step around an ant hill hm as to crush it with her heel The father was Samuel Jacobs formerly of St. St Joseph Mo ifo who helped build the Hannibal St St. Joseph railway now part of the Burlington Burlington Burlington Bur Bur- lington s system stem and who was editor of the Jefferson an antislavery Democratic paper of Fairfield Ia la NOT MAWKISH While thoroughly orthodox in their theology theolog the believe firmly that most of the tho sin end and suffering In the world has followed mans man's habit of ot killing kill kiu- ing and abusing animals There is noth- noth ig ilg mawkish about their views however Miss Sarah as president of the humane society has personally chloroformed hundreds hundreds hun hun- of diseased deformed and homeless animals i It sometimes Is expedient she said to remove them to avert further suf suf- fering When it is necessary to put an animal to sleep I always utter a word of prayer taking full responsibility for forthe forthe forthe the act Most of the pets in the Jacobs home have been brought there by persons who had found them suffering in the streets or were too poor to look after them Many carry a story of human Interest with sometimes a tragedy RECOVERS IN ASHES There Is Cinderella who had been brutally wounded The Jacobes decided to chloroform the animal to relieve Its ita Intense suffering Finally it struggled over to the open fireplace and curled up In the warm ashes Soon It showed signs of rallying aid they concluded It should live It lid did recover The Incident strongly strong strong- ly reminded them of the fairy story of the little girl sitting In the ashes and who later was able to wear the glass slipper and the spotted hound became Cinderella Little Topsy once was owned by a woman of the streets whose precarious existence did not perr t t her to care for forthe forthe forthe the pet She brought Topsy to the and up to the time of the womans woman's woman's womans womans woman's wom wom- ans an's death she regularly came to visit the dog SAVED BY CAT Miss Jacobs told of a cat eat that saved their lives A leaky gas Jet had filled the house with fumes while they slept The cat meowed in vain and finally leaped upon the bed and scratched Miss Jacobs to a waking position and a realization realization realization real real- of their danger Yarrow a cat with an interesting caree career career ca ca- reer ree was named after Mary Craige Yarrow Yarrow Yarrow Yar Yar- row a noted humane worker of Phila Phila- delphia This cat once was a a. companion of a little boy The boy died and on the night of or his funeral the animal was carried carried carried car car- ried away and locked in a freight car bound for Arkansas A fortnight later the cat returned home nearly starved stared The boys boy's mother took it to the Jacobs home SAVES LIFE Some of the animals of other days especial favorites who had earned some mark of distinction are buried In the flower garden There are no markers save a stone border around the grave of ot Hermano Mexican for brother long longIn In the family Hermano had saved Miss oriss Jacobs' Jacobs life In Texas when a big rattler was about to strike her The dog pounced upon the snake and received the poisonous poison poison- ous bite He lIe became blind but lived many years Asked about the cost of pursuing their thelt humane work Miss 1 Jacobs said It amounted to six or seven hundred dol dot dollars lars tars a a. year She insisted however that this did not constitute a sacrifice that they derived pleasure from it and preferred preferred pre pro to spend their money in this way even if It forced them to give up many comforts |
