The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-14
A DOG CHAPERONE.
Towser Is Very Religious, but Keeps
the Men Away.
From the Chicago Tribune.

Towser Is Very Religious, but Keeps
the Men Away.
From the Chicago Tribune.
There is at least one dog in Chicago
that may be said to thoroughly UNI
derstand his business, This is Towser
the pride and joy of the inmates OF
the Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton home, at 2SS Michigan avenue.
A tramp dog" originally, of doubt
full family and still more doubtful an
tecedents, Towser turned up at the
doors of the home and not only insist
ed upon hospitality but actually de-
manded adoption. He was gaunt hum
cry wretched, miserable, with ragged
coat, unhappy expression, and every
sign Of detection and misery. Finding
his new quarters pleasant, he abso-
lutely refused to leave them. So the
home authorities, finding it practically
impossible to get rid of him, capitu-
lated and Towser was informally
adopted. Now, fat and in the pink of
condition, Towser proves daily that he
not only knows a grateful spirit, but
that he las also fine sense of loyalty,
courage, and discrimination.
More than 800 marriageable young
women, most of them pretty and at
tractive, reside at the association
home. Masculine visitors, while heart
lily welcomed at proper times and
within due restrictions, are allowed
only in the hall, parlors and reception
room of the big hostelry, and upon the
front steps. Towser was not long in
becoming acquainted with the rules
and regulations i'll regard to these
matters, and he carries his care and
supervision of the 300 fair damsels, to
whom he has constituted himself off,
cial watchdog in all literalness, to
lengths of which even the most con-
ventional and careful of chaperones
would scarcely dream.
No man so much as ascends the front
steps without an emphatic protest from
Towser, and this Notwithstanding the
fact that he is the pet and pride of
almost every one of the pretty girls
whom he would thus sequester from
masculine admiration. The plumber,
the electric light man, and workmen
of similar like must be struggled into
the premises the back way if they
would penetrate beyond the lower
front hallway Of the big building, and
IL would be bold caller, indeed who
would dare defy Towser's excited chal-
lenge, small and insignificant as the
devoted dog appears.
MOSL Oh MS oUU Idlr charges 1OWSeT
knows personally, and by most of them
he is held in affectionate regard, de-
spite his extreme attitude In regard
to beaux or gallants, and few. if any
of them would admit him to be a dog
of ordinary abilities of qualifications.
Toward children of the kindergarten,
including Miss Chandler, a kindergar-
ten teacher, who resides at the associa-
ton, Towser shows strong affections,
although the pretty girls of the home
proper come first in his regard.
That Towsers peculiar censorship
is entirely self-taught and self-consti-
tuted the residents and authorities Of
the association home are unanimously
agreed. No slightest shade or degree
of suggestion or training taught the
odd little fellow to keep men at dis
lance from the young lady inmates of
his chosen home. But the dog evil
IDENTIFY realizes that with pretty girls
to look after 1t behooves him to be
extraordinarily particular and watch
full. To his duy, rs he sees it, Towser
devotes himself with an admirabl
faithfulness, devotion, and singleness
of heart.
Towser is also remarkable because
of his religious and social inclinations.
He attends the services in the home
chapel almost every Sunday, and never
an entertainment takes place within
the home precincts but Towser insists
upon taking at least a silent part in
the exercises of the occasion. When,
as sometimes occurs, he is elected from
the platform, his grief is extreme and
unremitting in it's expression, but If
allowed to remain, his behavior, &C
cording to many of his feminine
charges. is dignified and exemplary al
most heyond belief.