St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-06-13
LEFT In THE THEATER.
0ueee Articles That Are Found
When tho Play u Over.
4 LAttse Dog In . Ciear-Esox Put Under
0b 0lstress' Chalr and There For.
eoetea-An Honest Man Who Was
Overcome By Temptation.

Overcome BY Tem2totl0n.
About eleven o'clock on . bright
morning week or more ago fashion
ably dressed woman called at the box
oface of the Union Square theatcr. says
tho New York Sun. She was young
and had an abundance of Golden-yelloY
hair lknottcd in q coil behind her head.
She wore q natty black cloth hat and
. boa of glossy black feathers around
her neck, concealing the collar of .
handsome sealskin cloak. She was &C
componied by q colored maid.
ibid you find . little pug dog In the
theater last night?" she asked the man
in the Office.
"a pug dog?" asked Treasurer John
Cox, ia affected surprise.
"Yes," said the woman, her voice ris-
ing TO trembling treble, "a tiny little
dog. He was only a few days old My
maid here left him under the scat. oh,
did you find him, slr?"
At this the colorcd maid approached
the window, and said that she had un-
willingly left the dog under the seat
when she and her mistress left tho
theater, and neither one had discovered
the loss till they reached home. Thec
it was too late to hope to find the thea
Ter still open.
.sYcs," put in the girl, ''and hardly
slept all night thinking OF poor little
doggy"
ssBut how did you happen to bring .
dog to the thcatcr?" asked Treasurer
Cox, frowning darlxly. 'Of course you
know that dogs are not allowed here. ="
stOh, but my little doggic was 90 little
and SO young" replied the young wom-
an. s.and couldn't leave him home all
alone, youlznow. So told Dotty here
20 put him In q cigar box and bring him
along. And he was asleep in the cotton,
Won know, and We were both SO pleased
with the play, you know (glancing ap-
pealingly nc the trcasurer), that we
both forgot all about him. You sec. I
thought she had him, but it seems she
had put the box under the seat and for
got All about it. Oh. do tell me, did
Won flnd him?'
The young woman gazed so earnestly
into the treasurcr's face that he relent-
cd. and asked what the dogs name was.
sGypey." she replied, drying stray
tear with a tiny handkerchief. Treas
urcr Cox then produced cigar-box from
under the desk, lifted the lid, and dis
closed q tiny dog curlcd up in mass of
cotton and sleeping peacefully. The
Young woman seized the box with q
iovful exclamation, and, with profuse
thanks to everybody in sight that
eeemed to be connected with the thea
ter, tripped happily out with the colored
maid following behind
SWell," said Mr.. Cox, with all my
experience I never knew such curious
article left In the thcatcr before.
Women ere always leaving things be-
hind them in their chairs and boxes,
but who would ever think Of their leav-
ing dogs behind them? Now, we do not
allow dogs in the thcater, and she had
20 smuggie that little fellow in. Why,
do Won know, she had that cigar-b box
neatly tied up in brown paper as II it
were some package she had got at the
store, or had forgotten TO send by ex-
press"
All the theatcrs have rooms in the
cellars where lost articles which are
unclaimed after q reasonable time are
stored away. The general custom Is to
hold s.fouud articles" in the box Office
for . week or more, according to their
value. and If then unclaimed to send
them down to the cellar. Here they
accumulatc sometimes for years. They
herd with the dust and theatrical trap
Oin9s and effects long since abandoned
and stored for possible but not prob
able future use, till some of these ccl-
lar rooms are veritable curiosity shops.
Little Of real value is unclaimed, and
these subterranean collections are
usually far more curious than valu-
able.
81 have had people come back for
their hats" said theatrical man the
other day. I'm warm weather even
women occasionally walk out Of the
house in blissful forgetfulness of the
fact that they have removed their hats
for greater comfort and hung them on
the back Of their chairs Overshoes.
umbrellas, canes, opera glasses, over
coats, cloaks. wraps, furs, handker-
ehiefs-these are the articles more com
monty left behind. But purses are ire
oueutly lost, and these little rcticules
that women carry, often containing val
usble articles. Then ladies very FIRE
ouently leave packages containing pur.
chases behind them, after the matinee.
They come back in great haste and
often In great alarm. ! remember q
lady coming rushing into the theate,
about seven o'clock one evening and
sobbing out that she had lost coetl,
diamond necklace. and must hav<
dropped Il IN the thessse stssg ~