Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-09-11
PROMOTING FRIENDSHIP

ERONlOllNG E1ENDCE1lF.
Trott comes in from his walk. Ills
nurse. Jane, takes off his coat and
changes his shoes. He lets her do it
without saying word. He does not
answer her questions He is rejecting.
Evidently some great thought is oe-
cupying his mind, and he is considering
it from all points. Jane tries to joke
and laugh at him. Trott gazes at her
with a calm, absent minded look which
soon closes her lips Then he again be-
comes absorbed in his reflections.
Esau and Jacob were certainly two
despicable men. Esau must have a very
wicked look Trott cannot think of him
without tremor of fear. He was all
hairy and wanted to kill his brother.
That is very bad One ought not to kiln
his brother, even if one is very angry
with him. AS for Jacob, he was per
haps even worse. He was miser and
liar. He covered his hands with the
| skins of wild beasts to deceive his old
| father, Isaac And he made his brother
! pay very big price for dish Of
! lentils. There was a story about lambs
and goats, too, which was not much to
his advantage. Wen, these two wicked
men were reeonciled How did that
happen? 1t was because God willed it
so. And it was true, because it was told
in sacred history. Perhaps if it had not
been told in sacred history, Trott would
not have believed it at all. Yet one can
have little pleasant feeling about
Esau. In the picture in the sacred his
tory he wears big helmet and hand
some beard. But that this sly fellow,
Jacob, should have become an excellent
man, even a sort of saint, is really ex-
traordinary.
Jip and Puss are very much like Esau
and Jacob, and they, too, are mortal
enemies. Jip represents Esau perfectly.
He is a big shabby black dog; one
minute he barks very loud, jumps
against you, and seems as if he were
going to devour you, the next instant he
changes his mind and ticks your hand.
As for Puss, he is striking likeness of
Jacob. He appears very gentle and
amiable But whenever he can safely
do an i'll turn, he never fails to take
the opportunity. The other day Jip
was gnawing a bone. A man who had
a hunting horn passed down the street.
He was a personal enemy. Jip dropped
his bone and rushed to the garden fence
to bark at him. When he came back
Puss had carried the bone up into the
fork of pine tree and was chewing
/ it there with great satisfaction. This
is exactly the story of the lentils
Well! Since Esau and Jacob We're re-
coneiled and both became very good,
Puss and Jip must do the same and
Trott is going to bring it about.
Trott has made this resolution during
his walk. There is nothing to do now
except to put it into execution. But
there hes the difficulty. When Jip sees
Puss, he gTowls, shows his teeth and
rushes at him Puss puts out his claws,
arches his back, splits and swears in the
ugliest way until he can jump on q
piece OF furniture or a tree. Then he
keeps very quiet, with half-shut eyes,
watching Jip with ieering expression
as he moves up and down with an
angry, disappointed air.
These are certainly very bad DISPOSE
tions Esau did not want TO eat Jacob.
Yet there would be so much the more
merit in succeeding. Trott is not a
pessimist, To work.
In the first place, where are the two
patients? All, here is one. 1t is Puss.
He is eurled up on the little blue arm
chair i'll the playroom, 1t is his favorite
place. He seems to be in very peace
full mood. One would never imagine, to
look at him, how he can scratch and
bite. He is lying in a ball with his
head almost turned back His pink
mouth is stretched so much that he
seems to be smiling. He half opens one
eye as Trott comes near and holds M
his white chin a little to let him
: scratch it, Puss must be influenced by
kindness. Trott scratches conscientious
: ", A purr of happiness answers him 1t
IS perfect. While scratching, Trott gives
Puss some wise and iudicious advice
and entreaties to be patient. Puss re-
ceives them passively. He is ready
Where is Iip? Trott calls in the entry
"Jip! Jip!"
] No answer. Then he must be in the
: kitchen. That naughty Jipl He is al
S ways running there to eat lot of hor-
+ rid things which are forbidden because
D they make him sick; but old Therese
! gives them to him on the sly
In fact, Jip is just licking the bottom
! OF a dish whose appearance is very sus-
4 picious. Trott calls imperatively;:
5 Here. Jipi"
( Jlp comes slowly, twisting from side
:, 10 side in a rather shamefaced wav
Yet he is licking his chops with evid, II
I satisfaction. This action vexes Trott
! who sees in it either provoca tion or sar-
easm. No matter. ne won't sap him.
q Since Jip has Just been eating some
+ thing, he viii have less desire 10 deyour
Puss. And, since he has been disohe.