The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-29
THINK OF A DOG WITH A MAID!

MIS-. george I1eATSt, VI Ssfuloihiss' haD
the reputation Of preferring young girls
to anything under the sun. They are
her fad, and she well deserves the name
Of bringer out of debutantes.
She says she likes to have them around
her and acknowledges that her only sor-
row is that she has no daughters. Many
girl from the Pacific slope owes brill
liant winter in Washington to Mrs. Hearst,
and, Of a truth, they tell it that many .
girl owes brilliant marriage to her, too.
Mrs. Spooner, of Wisconsin, is bright,
humor loving woman, with whom 1t Is
pleasure to talk. She has the same fad
as Mrs Clarkson-that of doing dozen
things to keep up with her husband. One
thing she has never allowed to drop, and
that is the practice Of music. Her voice
IL a pure mezzo soprano. and she Is the
vocalist of the senatorial circle.
Countless women here make pugs,
mastitfs and poodles their fad. There Is
no city where so many ours need not go
afoot. They are either slowed under
their mistresses' arms or have a seat in
their carriages. By all odds the wife OF
ex-senator Palmer, of Michigan, had the
most blooded dogs Of any of the fanciers
of CANNES. She especially likes tiny
French spaniels and terriers. and she had
pair imported from France here last
winter that could be squeezed into Tin
ger bowl.
Think Of dog with a maid! But that
is what her pets had; the prettiest blue
eyed lass in Washington used to walk
out from to II every bright morning
with retinue Of yelping, irisking pup
pies.
Senator Palmer was just as fond OF
them as his wife, and he used TO spend
hours teaching them tricks
Many registered practitioner here has
been called upon to treat Mrs. Palmers
dogs for wheeze or distemper. When
her husband went to Spain last summer
AZ United States minister, she took the
dogs and their maid.
The Patten sisters are also famed for
their love of dogs. Their taste runs TO i'm
mense mastiffs, and they rarely walk the
capital streets without these attendants.
The married sister, Mrs. Glover, wife Of
the former congressman from st. Louis,
has liking for pugs as well as mastitfs.
She tells the story on herself of how she
and Mrs. Lloyd Brce, who is also
lover Of dogs, were fondling perfectly
ugly pugs one reception day when two
women she had never known came in
the room.
When they rose To 60 one of them
said, CURLY: Il should think, ladies' you
had better have your babies in your arms
than those pugs."
One of Mrs. Glovers pug dogs is ex.
tremely valuable, and she takes it every
where with her. This summer she had
it at high priced hotel, and Monsieur
Pug's bill was $40 per week.
Miss Letter, the heiress and beauty, is
just the proper thing when she walks
Connecticut avenue Of IA morning with
mastitf hound which is almost half her
height.
1t 10 line animal, and 81 900 would
not be purchase money for it.
kennel as large as the proverbiA
one assigned to honeymoon was built .
year ago for Miss Testers pet, and in 10
there are two compartments, and bal
cony where the hound can go and bay at
the moon during the long watches Of the
night.
Horses and dogs are the chosen pets OF
wealthy women, but there is one here
who thinks more of her parrot than Of
all other animals. She is Nine. Horacio
Guzman, who is accredited with being
the prettiest woman in the diplomatic
corps Her husband is the Nicaraguan
minister, and one of his presents when
he was wooing the fair American girl
was this choice bird. Ii is picture to
see the lovely woman hold her parrot
a Ia Lesbia with her dove and discourse
To il.
"Preferito" is the name given by II
Guzman to the pet. but it often gets tho
English equivalent, Darling"
Nine. Romero. the wife Of the Mexican
minister, has no love for animals. Her
fad is entertaining, and in winter she
receives more people in the big legation
parlors that all the other foreigners to-
gether. CAROLINE PErPn