Evening star., 1899-04-15
THERE'S A. DEAL IN A NAME

This thing Of indiseriminately naming al
new dogs anditall new babies Dewey Is
going to result In heap Of confusion and
trouble, If double-ended experience that
recently passed through has any pro-
phetic value" said a1well-known Washing
ton physician. 81 was writing some letters
In my study along toward IL o'clock the
other night when my telephone bell rang
Hello, DOCTOR said feminine voice al
the other end. 1t'Oh, doctor, Dewey's been
taken frightfully, with big Jumps all over
his back, and don't know whatever ails
MIN. 1t surely can't be anything he's
eaten. for we didn't give him anything but
eioCoiate creams for his supper, and
NOW, the woman talking through the
phone Is the proud possessor of a four
months-old baby. and chocolate creams as
soie article of supper diet struck me as
rather peculiar
Just a minute I interrupted Don't
you really think, madam, that YOU are
more IN need of treatment than the baby?
HoW can you possibly have the effrontery
70 tell me that you have been feeding a
creams? Don't You know that you are very
llanle to kill the child? Why, never heard
Doctor, doctor, wait a minute 1 heard
tI,, Ine voice say. You mustn't scold so ter
rlply. It not Dewey the baby, it's Dewey
my llttie fox terrier, that has the Jumps
all over his back, and oh, doctor he looks
awful the poor little thing, and I'm afraid
Iheres ie,, something dreadful the matter
oh, Just make solution of sulphur
ana give 1T to him, and rub him with dog
.iliiInent' ' said l, somewhat annoyed. Fox
terriers never die. It's impossible to kill
pup fox terrier There's too much devil
try in this world for them to get into for
them to shuttle off. I'll be around in the
n.Grnlng and look the pup over, although
pup aliineHs are trif1e out of my line
men L rang off, The. next morning
the lady lived and looked the pup over He
was as mt as a. fiddle He had probably
peeL eating some brand of millinery the
nght before that didn't hitch with his in
ternai-and infernal-economy, and the
wires OF the aigrettes, something, Went
wrong with him
:. Last night was again taking 1t quietly
IN my study, along toward midnight, when
nay telephone bell started in. I recognized
the voice as soon as the lady at the other
end OF 1t mentioned the word Dewey
oh' doctor, come up here at once the
voice pleaded. Dewey is in the most
what to do, My husband has gone down
town, and l. am almost distracted. Dewey
mas turned cold, and he's crying fright
1uily. don't know what l shall do If any
thing happens to Dewey, and he looks
49, Madam 1 replied sternly, I remember
teinng you over the wire the other night
that fox terrier pups were never born to
die. Just you let the dog alone and he'll
come around all right. You really cans ex-
pect me to climb out on such a wild, rainy
night as this to attend to the purely fanci-
full ailment of a fox terrier pup, and if you
do, why
While was talking heard lot of pro-
testing at the other end of the wire, but 1
went ahead in my wrath. until heard the
lady exclaim:
Wait. wait, wait! Goodness me, doc
tor; don't bite my head off that way! It's
Dewey, the baby, this timer
$50 1 had to bundle up and go to see the
baby. All the baby wanted was drink OF
water. 1t had grown rigid with wrath
yelling for drink of water, and when
watered it it shut UP like trap and went
to Sleep"