The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-04
PRETTY POLL THE CRAZE.
ugE PARROT Is BECOMING THE
FASHIONABLE BIRD.

os.,ine and Fall of the BARRING.
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~ru YORK. May c.-The phrase "mon-
..v and parrot time" requires modification.
-, dog and parrot times are more usual
s5 onite as interesting. The parrot has
--ads her way into fashionable society with
10. --t heading a subscription list to buy a
..nd.nainted piano for the rector of ''St.-
e...an-in.t he oodsr or working any "char-
- Jacket" or 'literary scheme" She has
osked Ward McAllister to dinner
=. than some other outsiders who don't
~ a menu card from a Russian sa movar
-.t she is safely enough ensconced in the
-oso;c circle to perpetrate a joke with equal
SANITY if she could think of one as comic
- Kat about the 400. Polly used to be the
"a ,1sids ret. but this spring she is the fad
Of the fashionable.
VI TIE mug dog doesn't like it. He rises on
re hind legs and waitzes about the room
Ut 18th grace that would command the ad-
,,irst;oa of Johann Strauss, ending with
~, over riding whip held four or five
foat ahoye the floor; but Miss Murray Hill
aings a sweetmeat into his mouth indiffer-
nn.iy and turns with real interest as Polly
onc::s her head on one side and sings with
nstronizing condescension:
Hes rather dunderheaded,
Still distinctly he's DEAR
The mugs education hasn't included THE
condoiiers.n but he is quite capable of
thinking the canine equivalent Of
IF l overtake her
IN warrant I'll make her
To shake in her aristocratical shoes!'
And so we are constantly threatened
with the black browed visage of grim war
in the boudoir. Hostilities actually broke
ont. [ believe one morning between Miss
Nav Callender's terrier and her parrot, and
when the man servant and two maids who
vera attracted by the clamor of battle ar
rived on the scene, they found Black Dick
with one green feather in his mouth bark
ing with energy and determination, while
P6lly. perched on the mantel was hurting
"Wipe off your chin, Pull down your
vest and other such insulting remarks
against the Zoe.
PATHS dogs get on we'll with her parrot.
chiefly, IN my opinion, because she keeps
her parrot in a cage. When one is living in
q hotel apartment it is not always advisable
to give birds the run of it, though TO do la
diva's mocking birk and Mexican double
yellow head justice, they manage, even
Of their dinner about with considerable ac-
curacy of aim.
Are parrots like any other creaturesW /
asked the songstress.
"They are like apes" she said, land like
children"
They are not like men and women evil
IDENTIFY, for they can resist the irresistible.
At least PATHS parrot is insensible to
PATHS charm. If Polly doesn't wish to
talk she went talk and her beak can't be
unsealed ~ any amount of wheedling. She
holds the voice at as high figure as her
mistress holds the golden notes that bring
in fortune in an evening. 1t has been
given out that she should swear in Spanish
for my edification, but in spite of the most
tempting bits Of banana she chung to her
perch in moody silence, her head sunk be-
tween her shoulders like a grumpy old man,
without acknowledging the treat by a
syllable. Pretty Polly, dear Polly, won't
she speak for mann inaP was cooed at her
10 vain. Under the circumstances l feel
bound to remark that PATHS mockiug bird
is better tempered, being even too solicitous
at times to do its share in the entertainment
of strangers.
That classic remark about the cracker is
not to be taken literally. What Polly really
wants, at least as one meets her at present
cracker soaked in coffee. The wife Of a
certain railroad magnate has a cockatoo
with white body pale birthstone crest
which is sometimes allowed to come to table
at the end of dinner, when coffee is served.
The cracker dipped in the favorite beverage
is accepted and eaten with weIl-bred
composure, but if by design or accident the
treat is not forthcoming, then the air be-
comes blue and the atmosphere sulphurous
with oaths. Parrots live, they say, 100
years, and this one must have belonged to
three successive generations of pirates to
have acquired sucn fuency and JUNCTION. A
cracker will stop the tide at full food, Lady
Washington-such is the irony of fate and
the parrots name-breaking off in the
midst of a round-syllabled imprecation to
receive the dainty with a mincing Thank
ye, mum; the saints bless yep
It's funny what a penc2ant the most
plous people are developing in the present
parrot craze for birds that can swear
There is one lady, the wife of the rector of
fashionable church, who is known among
her intlmates as a coDnoisseur of blasphem-
Gus birds. If she hears parrot rip out an
oath she Is sure to make an effort to COM
pass lis possession. have heard of two in
stances lately in which women have trained
their own birds, on the grohnd that the
to them, would put i'll too much Sunday
school," Polly sometimes expresses ones
feelings conveniently in an emergency.
heard story tae other day which the
young lady who told it-she's a Sunday
school teacher-vouched for as true 1t
seems that certain little boy in knicker-
oockers whose father is pillar in one of the
Dig Methodist churches, received the gift of
aparrot that could sing stanza of "Shall
We Gather at the River2" Thinking to edify
The household, he buttoned Polly under his
JACKET and smuggled her into the room at
family prayers. The little boy was still on
us knees IN the most solemn part of the
service, wondering if there were anywhere
IN the carpet soft spot comfortable for
Knees, when Polly, tired of being a dead
nead IN the enterprise, lifted up her voice
oehl1d the buttons and instead of the hymn
which had thus far been her only utterance,
ueganto carol in q mufi1sd voice:
Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea,
Silver buckles on his knee.
He'll come home and marry me,
Pretty Bobby Shaftoe.'
It might have been worse, for lady who
t uds experimented-I hope she won't read
ellS shameless exposure-assures me that a
Parrot VIII learn two "cuss words" while it
earning one Of any other description.
t Ia Maria Brooks, the well-known artist.
sips little green and gold dwarf parrot
- uer studio. | don't know whether this
s UIu talks or not; it certainly dislikes
strangers, for 1t scolded furiously from its
p olcn on Miss Brooks finger while | was
oAlhg at the portrait of Dr. Morgan Dix.
= wouldn't make friends on any considera-
u' ana by and by it began to bite