, 1890-03-16

IHlNh Of a DOd WITH a hAlDI
Mrs. George Hearst, of California, has
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 say she likes to nave them around
her and acknowledges that her only sor.
row is that she has no daughters. Many
a girl from the Pacific slope owes a brill
liant w%interin Washington to Mrs. Hearst,
and, of a truth, they tell it that many a
girl owes a brilliant marriage to her, too.
Mrs. Spooner, of Wisconsin, is a bright,
humor loving woman, with whom it is a
pleasure to talk. She has the same fad
as Mrs. Clarkson-that of doing a dozen
things to keep up with her husband. One
thing she has never allowed to drop, and
that is h practice of music. Her voice
is a pure mezzo soprano, INC she is the
vocalist of the senatorial circle.
Countless women here make pugs,
mastiffs 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 rave 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
a pair imported from France here last
winter that could be squeezed into q fin
ger bowl.
Think of a dog with a maidi But that
is what her pets had; the prettiest blue
eyed lass in Washington used to walk
u from 0 to II every bright morning
with a retinue of yelping, frisking pup
pies.
Senator Palmer was just as fond of
them as his wife, and he used to spend
hours teaching them tricks.
Many a registered practitioner here has
been called upon to treat Mrs. Palmer's
dogs for a wheeze or distemper. When
her husband went to Spain last summer
as 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
mems 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 a liking for pugs as well as mastiffs.
She tells the story on herself of how she
and Mrs. Lloyd Brice, who is also a
lover of dogs, were fondling perfectly
ugly pugs one reception day when two
ONE she had never known came in
the room.
When they rose to go one of them
said, CURLY: II should think, ladies, you
had better have your babies in your arms
than those pugs."
One of Mrs. Glover's pug dogs is ex.
tro,,o1- ra1,olla and .Hn to1-oa =. ar,o.-
where with her. This summer she had
it at a 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 a morning with a
mastif hound which is almost half her
height.
1t is a fine animal, and 81, 900 would
not be purchase money for it.
A kennel as large as the proverbial
a2e assigned to q honeymoon was built q
year ago for Miss Leister's pet, and in it
there are two compartments, and a 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. 1t is a picture to
see the lovely woman hold her parrot
n - l. =.
to it.
"Preferito" is the nam given by NJ.
Guzman to the pet, but it often gets the
English equivalent, Darling"
Mime. Romero, the wife of the Mexican
minister, has no love for animals. Her
fad is entertaining, and in a winter she
receives more people in the big legation
parlors that all the other foreigners to-
gether. CAROLINE PETER
BucKten Q Arnlca SaIye.