Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21
LOVE ME, LOVE MY DOG

| same--by dog and by conversation with
| regard to the dog. The narrative has no
particular point. excepting as Illustrating
how these little matters come about The
/ reader may judge as to which OF the two.
| the man or the woman. had the right In
the Incident.
The thing came to head at summer re-
SORT 1t had been simmering for long
time. The dog was the center OF the dis
turbance The dog Is bon-bon fed King
Charles spaniel. with all of the sniffy.
| prisgish top-lofty inconseouentAlness that
belongs to that species. Her name was
| end is-Sweetie: the dog. we mean. The
| girls name doesn't matter for the dog was
elevated to the principal role in the tragedy.
The man had been engaged to the girl
for about year. They were ta~be married
next year. All the same, the man, in his
less emotional hours did honestly hate the
notion Of marrying the dog, too For he
didn't like Sweetie. He had never said so
| outright but he had most virulent dis
Ike for Sweetie. The girl was a slave to
.Sweetie. That was the answer. Her whole
life reyoived around Sweetie. She logged
Sweetie everywhere she went. She suf-
fered the most acute discomfort that
Sweetie might be comfortable.
| And when she went to the summer resort
couple OF weeks ago with her mother and
Sweetie she inundated herself on the
/ Sweetie altar in most astonishing man
ner.
| The proprietors OF all Of the main hotels
or the summer resort, 1t seemed, had got
together In an agreement, early In the
| son. not to permit dogs in the hotel rooms
under any circumstances whatever. Dogs
| were to be allowed in the basement, in the
care of Torters. but they were not to be
! taken above the basement
When the girl and her mother and Sweetie
| reached the summer resort, they We're con-
| fronted with this rule. They were we'll able
! to pay any reasonable rate for the best ac-
tSxNyr 3oft
were turned down on the Sweetie PROPOSE
ton everywhere they went No dogs, said
| the manager. Sorry-like TO accommodate
| but no dogs. Rigid rule Couldn't be
| broken No exceptions. Sorry, again, but
| there was no arguing the matter-no
| dogs of any kind in the rooms.
From hotel to hotel the girl and her
mother and Sweetie went, o1ay to get the
same polite refusal at all of them-sorry
| but no dogs. The girl and her mother tried
| the system of being naughty with the hotel
I folks, but hotel folks at summer resorts are
| used to naughty persons, and that didn't
| do particle of good.
| At last. night was falling. the girl with
SWeetie and her mother took accommoda-
| tons at second-rate hotel. where there
was no rule against dogs in the rooms. This
| hotel was doubtful sort of a house Dead
| game sports hung around It, fellows who
| looked like tin-horn gamblers and runners
| for hand books, and the women In the
house didn't look as If they could stand
| careful Investigation.
| But 1t was the best that the girl with
| Sweetie and her mother could do. as long
| what they could get, thereby subjecting
| themselves to summer of discomfort pure
| ly on account of Sweete.
| The young man dropped down to the
| summer resort on the following Saturday
| to visit the girl. He had looked forward to
| the trip eagerly being a Woodworking
| chap, and meditated remaining three or
| four days.
l had ft1y hor I,,,, 80 -
| no found his fiancee and Sweetie and the
| mother, and when he discovered them in
| the doubtful hotel, and learned the reason
| of their stopping there. a certain sort of
| steely light appeared In his eyes
| This is hardly the hotel for you and your
| mother to be In" he said to the girl,
promptly when he got her alone. IT'S
| swift house. Everybody knows that"
| But" replied the young woman. snug
| Cling up to Sweetie and depositing a kiss
| precariously close to that CANNES clammy
nose, its the only place could get In
| 80 you've told me-" said the young man.
| and the CLINT in his eyes became harder
Well. why not chuck Sweetie? Why not
SEND her back home, or else put her in
| charge of some dog care-taker down here,
| so that you and your mother can live at
least decertly during your stay here?'
! send Sweetie away! Put the darling in
F., norrid brute's care! You must be crazy
| to think I would even dream of such a
thingl' exclaimed the girl
| Well, said the man. 1.-The house is too
tough for me, and you can judge for your
| sell whether 1t be fit for you and your
| mother. I'm going to register elsewhere
wouldn't live at this plant under any cir
| cumstances, and I'm not such a dainty one
| at that. Do you think you're fair to YOUR
| self or to your mother to live In such
joint as this all on account of that misera-
| BILE mutt?''
Miserable mutt!' almost shrieked the
| young woman, starting up in wrath How
| dare you speak OF my precous-my darl-
| ing-the dear little pity angel that has been
| SO devoted TO me?" and her eyes blazed
ON account of that miserable mutt"
! the man repeated. with great preciseness
| of accentuation. 1T Is about the most
fdiotic thing I ever heard OF. To sacrifice
not only yourself, but your mother, for such
wheezy, pampered sniveling, asthmatic
pop-eyed, monkey headed, stringy- cared,
utterly no good ki-yoodle as that-it's the
NEST Internal piece Of tomfooIery 1 ever
! heard of in my life, Ethel"
| The girl stood up, clutching the moist
| messed King Charles at her side with tenn
per written all over her.
You shall regret those words" she said
There is something wrong about a man
| who dfslikes dogs, and l am glad discoy-
| cred this in you in time"
| Dislike dogs?" said the man. There's
/ where you do me an unworthy injustice I
am passionately fond Of dogs Have been
| all my life. Love even the ordinary yaller
| street dog. I like any kind Of a real dog
/ dog. with character and loyalty and sense;
| q dog thdt IL make up with and BOYS
| as well as with women; dog that is treat
ed as dog should be treated, dog with
| independence self-reliance, Judgment. I'M
! sefishness; in word, a real dog. But. to
| be perfectly honest. now that we're on this
| subject, despise the kind. of "a lap-dog this
| mutt Of yours is. And 7 thisk it is the
natural instinct of any man to view such
a sntveily. woman pampered, worthless.
| chocolate-stuffed, grunty four-legged four
| flush as that Internal thing of yours with
| rerugnance. You have, 1 am bound to tell
| you, been making yourself wholly ridicu-
| lous on that watery-eyed ours account for
| a number of years. You have just about
| put the finishing touch tothe absurdness of
| 1t all when you have deliberately relegated
| yourself and your mother to a summer re-
| sort hotel supported entirely by fash men
| and flasher women, solely because the
| proprietors of decent hotels have the good
| sense not to permit such wretched four
| legged insects as that fong-eared canine
idiot OF yours to be established In their
rooms. It is pretty nigh up to you to see
these things yourself. Ethel One thing is
dead certain, nothing of this sort could ever
possibly happen after we we're
| You may consider yourself perfectly
/ free, put in the girl. choking with tndi1-