The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-05-13

broidered feather of Juno's bird
supposed to have the seeds of ba,
luck in it. If an actress should wea
peacock feathers in her hat, or hav
her dress embroidered in them, tn
other members of the company regar'
it as sign of poor houses and possible
dissolution, or else a terrific row.
Some managers have a dread of th,
pictures of Garfield. If they fine
, one about the theater anywhere the,
expect bad business. Sometimes il
the haIf-g,own towns when amateur.
give performance they decorate the
theater with pictures of Washington
Lincoln and Garfield, and not infre
quently these patriotic portraits are
left kicking around the property room,
or hanging conpicuOusly somewhere.
Garfield is shown no quarter on &C.
count Of his unlucky influence. No
such superstition has ever been en-
tertained in regard to Linc6ln's pic
lures, thong he suffered the same fate
that Garfield did.
The cat is invariably regarded as
bearer of good news. She brings
the best of luck. When she enters
theater she is banqueted and fdtter-
ed and in every way urged to stay.
As long as she stays the gods smile
When she departs they frown She
is as sacred from harm In the pro-
fession as her prototypes We're in
ancient Egypt.
Small dogs are worn near the should
er this spring. / say Worn, because
the dog is now recognized as a part of
the costume. Men wear him under
the left arm, his head protruding in
front. and his tail falling gracefully at
the back. Women wear him on the
left arm, his entire body being entire
ly visible in front. Many of the new
suites are finished by a five hundred
dollar dog of the same shade, as an
ornament.
This has been hard winter on tie
canine king here. His promenade
privileges have been interfered with
by the disagreeable weather the dog
thieves have been extremely industri-
Gus. as they always are during long,
cold season, and the reporters have
been unusually energetic in recording
aggravated cases of hydrophobia. Per-
haps the only living being, except po-
licemen and thieves, whom the pamp-
cred dog breads, is the reporter.
These two ornaments to society do not
affiliate. The enmity between them is i
deadly. The man of the pencil has
the advantage, and the dog knows it.
So deep and irreparable is the feud
that the reporter filings his grammar
aside whenever he writes of his four
footed enemy, and continuously and
puts him on paper as ca
nine. The sristocratic dog is too good
a philologist to bear such an insult
with amiability. He knows himself to
be a noun and to be put before the
public as an adjective masquerading
as a noun is intOlerable TO his literary
sense. He growls sullen and snappish
the moment be sets eyes on reporter,
and he knows one as far as he can see
him. The reporter retaliates in a
hundred hateful ways. The smallest
case of bite gets column of graphic
writing, in which the bitter and all his
kind are portrayed as dangerous foes
to society. Complete obliteration of
Ill caninity is the reporters m dicine for
offenses of this order. He points the
arrows of ridicule at this voice
less foe whenever the opportunity offers
and when events are scarce and he
inds it necessary to manufacture some,
be invents frightful results from year.
Did bites and other things prejudicial
% the dog. If he hears of a dog
ooking displeased at pertersome
,hild he magnifes the discourtesy iu-
% a cruel attack on a helpless babe by
1 bloodthirsty brute, and describes the
Iffair (which never bappened) as one
Of peculiar horror, in which the child
mad every particle of clothing torn
rom its body before help arrived.
The point of death is also brought in,
Ind no biological stone left unturned
whose turning would assist in break
ng down the dogs character. II
On wheels, the canine king is at his
best. He rides in rich coaches. repos-
ng on velvet and fur, and smiles
Town on the grimy, industrial popula-
ion with the self-satisfaction of Van
ierbilt. He is sensible of his superior
surroundings and despises the plebeian j
clement. As with man an idle and
life breeds in his mind a [
contempt for all creatures less stfiuent l
md comfortable. II
The embroidered dogs that tow fat {
women along at the end of chain,