Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-05-07
LEFT In THE THEATER.
Queer Articles That Are Found
When the Play Is Over.
A Little Dog in Cigar-Box Put Under
His Mistress Chair and There For
gotten-An Honest Man Who Was
Overcome by Temptation.

About eleven o'clock on a bright
morning a week or more ago a fashion
ably dressed woman called at the box
office of the Union Square theatcr, says
the New York Sun. She was young
and had an abundance of golden-yellow
hair lSnotted in coil behind her head.
She wore a natty black cloth hat and
o boa of glossy black feathers around
her neck, concealing the collar of q
handsome sealskin cloak. She was ac-
companied by colored maid.
"Did you find little pug dog in the
theater last night?" she asked the man
in the Office.
"a pug dog?" asked Treasurer John
Cox, in affected surprise.
yes" said the woman, her voice ris-
ing to trembling treble, ga tiny little
dog. lie was only few days old. My
maid here left him under the seat. Oh,
did you find him, slr?"
At this the colored maid approached
the window, and said that she had un-
Willingly left the dog under the seat
when she and her mistress left the
theater, and neither one had discovered
the loss till they reached home. Then
it was too late to hope to find the thea
ter still open.
YES" put in the girl, land hardly
slept all night thinking of poor little
doggy"
'But how did you happen to bring a
dog to the theater?" asked Treasurer
Cox, frowning darkly. 'Of course you
know that dogs are not allowed here"
"Oh but my little doggie was so little
and SO young" replied the young wom-
an, ''and / couldn't leave him home all
alone. youknow. So told Dotty here
to put him in cigar box and bring him
along. And he was asleepin the cotton,
you know, and we were both SO pleased
with the play, you know (glancing ap-
pealingly aJ the treasurer), that we
both forgot all about him. You sec,
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
you find him?"
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into the treasurer's face that he relent-
ed, and asked what the dogs name was.
Gypsy" she replied, drying a stray
tear with tiny handkerchief. Treas
urer Cox then produced a cigar box from
under the desk, lifted the lid, and dis
closed tiny dog curled up in mass OF
cotton and sleeping peacefully. The
young woman seized the box with q
Joyful exclamation, and, with profuse
thanks to everybody in sight that
seemed to be connected with the thea
ter, tripped happily out with the coiored
maid following behind
"Well," said Mr.. Cox, with all my
experience l never knew such a curiou:
article left in the theater before
Women are 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 moi
allow dogs in the theater, and she haC
to smuggle that little fellow in. Why
do you know, she had that cigar-bo2
neatly tied up in brown paper as if i
were some package she had got at the
store, or had forgotten to send by ex
press"
All the theaters have rooms in the
cellars where lost articles which are
unclaimed after a reasonable time are
stored away. The general custom is tC
hold found articles" in the box Office
for week or more, according to theii
value, and if then unclaimed to sent
them down to the cellar. Here the,
accumulate sometimes for years. The,
herd with the dust and theatrical trap
pings and effects long since abandone'
and stored for possible but not prob
able future use, till some of these eel
lar rooms are veritable curiosity shops
Little of real value is unclaimed, an,
these subterranean collections ar
usually far more curious than valu
able.
~ have had people come back fo
their hats" said theatrical man tn,
other day. ''In warm weather ever
women occasionally walk out of tn
house in blissful forgetfulness of tn
fact that they have removed their hat
for greater comfort and hung them o.
the back of their chairs. Overshoes
umbrellas, canes, opera glasses, over
coats, cloalzs, wraps, furs, handkei
chiefs-these are the articles more CON
monty left behind. But purses are fre
quently lost, and these little reticule
that women carry, often containing va
liable articles. Then ladies very fire
quently leave packages containing pun
chases behind them, after the matinee
They come back in great haste an
often in great alarm. remember
lady coming rushing into the theate
about seven o'clock one evening an
sobbing out that she had lost "a cost
diamond necklace, and must hav
dropped it in the theater after tn