Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-04
DAVIS LITTLE FAvORITE
Exploit of the Ex Senator
 Granddaughter.
LOVER OF THE WILDWOOD FOLK,

How the Democratic Vice Presi-
 dentiaI Nominees Pet Grandchi1d
 Tanned the Deer at GraceIand-Lit-
 tie TweIve-year-Old Is n Sort of
 Mother to Senator's Grandchildren. "Why is it that the people of Elkins say that your twelve-year-old grand daughter Katharine Grace Brown is your favorite grandchild?" the New York World correspondent at Elkins, W. Va, asked .ex- Senator Henry Gassa- way Davis, the Democratic candidate for vice president.
 Mir. Davis chuckled
 'sI suppose because she is the most like me- he answered. sYou see, she is the only one of my granddaughters who wishes that she had been born a boy.'
 To say that little Miss Brown is a '.tomboy'' is far from the truth. She is pretty, buoyant, athletic little girl with dark brown hair and brown eyes, and is entirely feminine in her appear ance. But she plays outdoors all day long at GraceIand, the country home of l her grandfather at Elkins, and the hay makers say that she is the best farmer in the town. She knows by kicking her little russet shoes among the dry hay just when it is ripe to be raked and cooked for the wagons She knows when the corn is full in the ear and where the ripest strawberries grow P11% EtaYs5 nc% %oI 4J tanning and training of the wild noun tain deer in MT. Davis preserves. These deer are the common wild Vir- 1 ginia deer, very beautiful and shy. They were caught on the hills and I since being turned into the game ranges l have increased and multiplied till they are the envy of every wealthy man who visits Graceland But Shannon Hardman, the gamekeeper, could, do i nothing with them. They ran into the jungle every time he approached to feed them, and visitors at Graceland could not get sight of them. ! T can't tame them a mite" said Hardman helplessly.
 J Pooh! You don't go about it right said Miss Katharine ''I can tame any thing tanned grandpa, and guess can tame the deer.,'
 I The next day she took white silk handkerchief and pail of bran and | went up over the hil to the deer park. Sitting down in hollow, she elevated the handkerchief on stick and held the curious signal just where the mild l eyed does and the antlered bucks could see 1t waving in the breeze. Now, there is nothing in all the world so filled with curiosity as deer. and some one had told Katharine this secret The deer
 saw the white object and s'edged' down for better look. Nearer and nearer they came till they got a good | look at the little girl-and then seam pered away.
 The next day she sprinlled bran near the hollow and again lifted her hand kerchief. Again the deer folk ycrept down for a look and discovered the
 bran They ate it timfdly and scam pered away. In week the deer were coming to her when she held up the handkerchief and eating from the pail in her hands. And before long they came running to meet her whenever she appeared. After a time she intro duced them to Hardman and when they found he always had bran it was an easy matter to call them.
 Miss Katharine she insists on spell ing 1t with an 'a"-is the oldest of the ex-senator's grandchildren and is sort of little mother to them. t'Since my I mother died" she said to the reporter, \ sI have had to be a mother to myself
 and so have got used to caring for | little children"