The evening times., 1899-08-04
LOVE OF ANIMALS.
A Pretty Trait, But Slightly Incon-
venient,
FrOm the New York Advertiser.)

From the New York Advertiser)
Whatever you do" said the girls
mother to the young matron, don't bring
your children up TO love animals They
both looked after the girl as she walked
away with hideous mongrel behind her
and five distinct marks of muddy paws on
her fresh duck skirt.
That one is bad enough, isn't it?" con-
tinued the girls mother, sadly pointing to
the cur But it's a blue ribbon dog COM
pared 10 one she brought home two years
ago. And she brought with her at the same
time two snakes in a paper bag. l drew
the line there. l told Adelaide that either
the snakes or / would have to go out to
the barn and stay.
But the worst experience / ever had
was with owls. Adelaide said for years
that she must have an owl. l never for
an instant believed she really meant it.
We were in Paris then, and the kind of
owl Adelaide wanted lives in South Caro-
lima or some such place. She used to go
into bird stores and ask for owls. But they
never had owls of any kind, let alone
'Grande Due ! thought it was merely
an excuse of hers to get inside of animal
shops, so she could talk to the parrots and
call the dogs her little tow-tow cheri.
Then Adelaide had birthday and her
aunt and l both gave her some money
CuOItls d4lSI tudt ouG eNeHtuS-AuSldlOe
had gone TO the theatre-a little old man
appeared with large covered cage, said
| that here was the bird mademoiselle had
ordered and went away. | took off the
cover, and there stood the largest and mos;
dignified bird l had ever seen. He was
| superb. l have never seen finer carriage
He looked at me with disdain, then with
hate, and Kissed viciously at me.
| 'All the long evening sat alone with
hot hird vIa coll
| tous that i expected he might say, Never
more any minute. AS | sat there l
thought of ali the white mice and turtles
and cats and guinea pigs l had been
! through and thought that this was little
| too much. / saw myself seeing this bird
Kissing at ME through long years. l saw
myself Juggling it home across the Atlantic
! Ocean. BY the time Adelaide came l was
pretty angry. She says the first thing /
said to her was There's your OWL Ade-
! laide; six feet three in its stocking feet
and there's taxidermist down the road.
| But l was so upset that I'm sure don't
| know what said.
| Adelaide was delighted, of course. She
| knelt beside the cage and the owl hissed
| at her. She said she had always wanted
I to be missed at, and that it was perfectly
| lovely to have an animal hate you after
having been adored and fawned on by all
animals for SO many years. At last she
| took her owl and went to bed She could
hardly lift the cage, he was so big, and
| he Kissed at her.
| ''In about half an hour heard the most
! awful noise coming from Adelaide's room.
1t sounded like plaster being hoed off the
the walls. / flew in there. Adelaide had
| just lighted a candle. The bird was pranc-
| ing around its narrow cage, clawing the
bars. AS soon as the light burned brightly
he stopped. After awhile she went TO bed
1 again. The owl set up the same internal
| racket 1t was already nearly 2, and
Adelaide was frightfully tired, so she put
the owl out in the hall. just as We dozed
off there came the most awful row. ter
times worse than anything before. I flew
out in the &c SO did the other people
on our floor and those on the foor~above
The owl had upset the cage and was roll
ing all over the floor, striking with his
beak. When the people found out what i,
was, imagine their disgust. Well, she haG
to sit up with him all night, and all nigh
i he winked at her, first with one eye ant
then with the other. His eyelids wer,
phosphorescent. and Adelaide confessed i
made her pretty nervous before morning
(" You see you can't possibly keep hin
here, Adelaide said He needs a big
ger cage than we possibly could give hin
here She agreed What he needs is
primeval forest. That's the only thing