Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-02
WOMEN AND CANNES

II read somewhere the other day a mighty
true account Of how mean and onnery even
an ordinarily well-behaved dog will act
when he's travelling in a baggagecar and
when his mistress visits him in the baggage
car at every stop" said a baggageman
with a run out of Washington. THE &C
count was straight, every word of 1t. An
unaccompanied dog in a baggagecar will
soon get used to his surroundings and settle
down and behave himself, but when ne
knows that his master or miStress-most
particularly his mistress|s right In the
next car to him he spends all OF his time
trying to choke himself to death in order to
get out of the baggagecar, and makes d
nuisance of himself generally.
"A while back took a perky fox terrier
here for the run to Pittsburg, his mistress
a somewhat hatched-face woman being IN
the adjoining coach and making frequent
visits to the baggagecar to try to induce the
abused dog to eat bon-bons which, unoer
the circumstances, he scorned.
"At Baltimore another fox terrier was
passed along to me, this one by woman,
too, who said that she'd ride in the next
coach.
give minutes after the train left Balti-
more both of the dogs mistresses entered
the baggagecar together to endeavor 70
comfort and assuage the whimpering grief
Of their pets. The hatchet-faced woman
whose dog had been the first on the car,
looked surprised when she saw the otner
dog tethered at the same end OF the car
where her own dog was tied.
"She shifted and gazed disdainfully at the
other woman. whose manner was equally
naughty. Now, 1T happened that there was
a small. hairless red spot on the side of the
Baltimore woman's dog. and when the
Washington woman saw this out of the cor
>ner of tie contemptuous eye with which she
regarded the intruding dog she instantly
oc1,o mai nd
"'Tie my dog at the other end OF this car,
this instant! Can't you see-can't anybody
see-that this nasty little cur here. point
ing to the other woman's dog, is all eaten
up with the mange?
1.-The Baltimore woman bridled instantly.
why, the impudence! she exclaimed.
The poor little fellow got that tiny mark on
him when he was a baby-a careless servant
let some boiling water fall on him-and the
idea of anybody calling it the mango! the
mango! Who ever heard of such an out
rageous accusation against my dear little
Jacksier
Now. did you hear me! sharply said the
Washington woman to me, seeing tnat 1
didn't jump to her command to give her
dog the other end of the car. or are you de-
lberately trying to let my dog catch the
mango from that horrid. common anlmal!'
However l didn't move the Washington
woman's dog to the other end of the car.
which would have involved about half an
hours work in clearing away heap OF
trunks from that end. and wasn't taking
orders given in exactly that tone. anyhow.
1 told the Washington woman that only one
end of the car could be reserved for dogs,
and then I let the two women light II out
between them.
1.-THE Washington woman stood guard
over her terrier for about half an hour, and
then she gathered up the slack of her dog
string and tied him to the wall ring so that
he had only about four inches lee way.
Hes not going to get near that NANCY
brute If know it!' she announced while she
was doing this stunt.
1.-The two women rode in the same coach
all the way to Pittsburg. hating each other
with every turn of the wheels
II used to understand that some mothers
of children could never see anything attrac-
tive in the children of other women, but
I've found out, since l began to handle
travelling NUTS. that that feeling apples
to pet dogs as well as to children"