Irene Castle's Home for Dogs

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 323, 7 April 1928, Page 22

Irene Castle's Home for Dogs

AE is being waged by Dr. Arnold Kegel, Health Commissioner of Chicago, to prevent Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin from removing the

stray dogs which she has rescued in the city to a more palatial and spacious home in the country.

Irene Castle, America’s beloved danseuse, universally called “The Girl on Tiptoes,” has always been a woman of few words but drastic action, and it seems inevitable that her quiet but effective determination will find a means of caring for the helpless canine waifs of Chicago’s thoroughfares.

“It is thoroughly discouraging,” said Mrs. McLaughlin, who is director of the Anti-Cruelty Society, “to have Dr. Kegel baulk our every move with his orders. He has made it impossible for us to give out any dogs without first vaccinating them, and since people cannot come to us to get a pet, we are swamped and absolutely unable to handle more dogs than we now have. He has also forbidden us to move any dogs from the city to the country. It is an utterly absurd proceeding, for I have had any number of dogs, and many of them lived to a ripe old age withput ever having rabies.”

Irene Castle McLaughlin has a way, a very charming way, of winning any cause she may sponsor, and the world is standing agape to see just how she will manage this present disconcerting

order placed upon her dog kennels, her latest innovation in the world of accomplishment. Mrs. McLaughlin has been responsible for introducing more novelties into the world of terpsichorean and decorative art, the stage, women’s fashions and sports than perhaps any other woman of the present century. She, it will be recalled, was the first woman in the United States to ntroduce bobbed hair. In fact, she was first to make popular many fads of a daring quality. For instance, jodhpurs for women riding horseback. It was Irene Castle who first made popular the anklet when she stunned society by wearing a band of pearls and diamonds on her left ankle, which glistened and shone as she danced £he incomparable maxixe. “No more will the cur dogs of Chicago need to wander the streets with the threat of death hanging over their heads,” Mrs. McLaughlin asserts. But how she will overcome the difficulties which so discouragingly confront her, only Irene Castle McLaughlin can foretell.