The Portland daily press., 1890-03-25
VERY CLEVER CANINE.
oyp, the Dog Advertiser, and Her
Methods of Business.
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Gyp is visiting Omaha.
Haven't seen her? Don't know Gyp?
Nonsense! She may be noticed any day
walking up and down Farnam street.
She wears red satin coat buttoned
very lightly around her throat and a
toque to match it sets jauntily ON her
head. The toque is trimmed with feath-
ers and flowers and faxen bang peeps
from beneath its rim. Gyp has very
pretty brown eyes and they gaze through
glasses that are perched upon her little
nose Gyp's department is very proper
except IN one respect. She looks straight
ahead through her glasses and walks
with dignity, and when people make re-
marks about her-as they generally do
she does not pay any attention to them,
She just holds her cigarette firmly in her
teeth and assumes an Indifferent air.
For Gyp smokes when she appears unon
the street-that is the only breach in her
otherwise faultless demeanor.
But then Gyp is only dog-a little
Drown spaniel; the wisest, brightest lit
tie spaniel imaginable. Gyp is a dog
with career She is an artistic in her
way, and, as every one knows, artistes
often indulge in cigarettes. Only smok-
ing is regarded by Gyp in the light of an
accomplishment, which makes her valu-
able in her professional line.
And what is Gyp's professional line?
Advertising is what occupies all
her working hours. There are big white
letters on her red satin coat, and the let
tiers tell people where to buy certain
things. OF course Gyp attracts more at
tention than a dozen newspapers, and
every one who sees the little brown dog
trotting along the thoroughfares with her
fiaxen bangs sewed securely into her red
satin toque, her glasses adjusted on her
nose and her cigarette in her mouth, is
sure to read the white letters.
Gyp has been in the advertising bust
ness year, She would never have
thought of entering such public life if
the idea had not been suggested to her
by the black-eyed boy who is her master.
They did great many tricks together.
and when Gyp learned to smoke a cigar
dealer back in Cleveland offered to en-
gage her services. The dealer offered $40
a week, and Gyp and her master signed
contract, and her first engagement was
speedily begun, the boy acting as Gyp's
manager. 1t was a success, and Gyp ap-
peared here in Omaha at the end of her
season She wore blue costume then.
and the white letters ON her coat, or
habit, as her young manager calls it,
exhibited the virtues of certain brand
of cigars.
Gyp is sometimes disappointed in the
weather, but she is very particular about
fulfilling her contract, which calls for six
hours walking every day-three hours
in the morning and three in the after
noon. She confines her promenades to
the principal streets, and she is often
times annoyed by the crowds which
gather around her But being very de-
mure and self possessed she refuses to
linger where she can overhear the re-
marks of passers by. Once or twice she
has been mortified by brusque commands
to "move on" from policemen who did
not appear to recognize genius-even
when 1t was so well defined as in Gyp's
case.
Gyp is naturally naughty She is very
proud OF her satin habit and with true
feminine patience bears all the discom-
forts of fine attire without single whine
of impotence. Oftentimes the wind
blows her coat about her feet and her
faxen bangs slip over her eyes. Besides
her glasses pinch her nose and she be-
comes very tired of the cigarette. Yet
all artistes who appear in public and
calmly accept the homage of the multi
tude suffer more or less, and why should
a dog be exempt from any of the draw
backs that beset an actors career?
Gyp does not notice other dogs and alb
solutely refuses to make their acquaint-
ance. AS rule, her snowy costume
amazes them and they stand and look at
her afar off, now and then expressing
their canine establishment in low, deep
growls. ky, Omaha's Bohemian dog
ky, who has associated with lawyers
until his assurance is the despair of every
well behaved dog in the town-tried to
join Gyp in her daily promenade; but,
although ky had copied many of the
manners and much of the address Of GER
tain lawyers in the Sheely and Paxton
blocks, ky was ignohiniously snubbed.
Moreover, Gyp can talk.
When she was asked about Omaha she
expressed the utmost confidence in its
future by removing her toque and bark
ing half a dozen times in the most en-
thusiastic manner. She had no definite
opinion about the school bonds, but APP
peared to have rather melancholy recol-
lections of her own education. She was
quite yoluble when Dr. Miller's name
was mentioned. DIR. Miller had spoken
to Gyp on the street and said he thought
it was shame for poor dog to be COM
PEELED to wear glasses and smoke cigar
cites all day long. But Gyp only sat up
with her fore feet crossed in q very
graceful manner, looked at him kindly
through her spectacles, and then "'oved
along down Sixteenth street,