The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20
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Noah, as he crossed one ell
derly leg over the other and lit large
rugged cigar
must say I didn't much admire the
noted navigator's taste in cigars. Like
most sea faring persons of the old school.
ne seemed mainly to go in for area ara
combustive qualities when purchasing.
This one looked as If any moment the
names might shoot up the airshaft ana
mushroom on the top floor, as they say
in stories of CONGREGATIONS in tenement
houses. Already it was beginning TO raw
eel badly where the insulation had peen
burned away by the match, and 1t gave
off smell like the boiled cabbage In the
hext fiat scorchins. 1t shed lot OF
ciinkers, and it smouldered fiercely and
taken in connection with Father Noah In
his long robes and his ancient Hebrew
sandals, 1t put me in mind OF cleaning
the ashes out of the furnace early in the
morning while wearing a night shirt and
bedroom slippers But | shifted trifs
.tc windward and the interview went right
along.
81 am always glad" said Father Noah,
stocking at his cigar when somebody
comes around with a sensible subject to
talk about. ! do get so tired of boreS
that have passed through a piking little
spring freshet somewhere and think
with me- There was a damp, mussy
party here only last night talking about
his experience. 1t seemed he came from
q place called Johnstown, Pa. lie made
me weary. In my day nobody wouli
have given 80 cents for the riparian rights
OF a flood like his. Before long every
fellow who's been present when some
hody was tapped for the dropsy will
think he's entitled to go in my class
$ 'But If you want to discuss the anti
& vivisection crusade in its relation 10 the
sacrifice of family pets, I'm pleased 70
give you my views. Indeed, II L may
make so bold, feel that you have come
to the right shop for information.
''When 1t comes to raising a large anu
varied assortment of family pets IN
limited area, l figure that | have conslo
cradle of ar edge even on those deVoteo
try to make a dog happy In Harlen
fiat. Yes. / know something about those
light Housekeeping apartments, naN,ns
looked into tho subject pretty thorouSnls
from time to time. | understand tnat me
only persons who've ever done nght
housekeeping on more confined scale
/ than your New York fat dwellers are
these stage magicians who cook an om-
clet in a high hat borrowed from tns
LEGAL undertaken in the audience. Ana
when, under such circumstances, nat
dweller is heroic and self-sacrlhcihs
MY sympathies go out to all concerned:
10 the dog as we'll as his owner. Both OF
them undoubtedly have to put up with
good deal, especially these times, when
it's so hard for a. well-bred dog to eat
The sort of beefsteak that the average
family can afford to buy.
For fiat purposes ] would recommend
that interesting German creature that
looks like a cross between an ear wig ana
a carpet-sweeper-the one with the Ger
4 man name, that you purchase by the run
ming foot?-Yes, that's it-dachshund-
Now ! imagine that an animal so con-
structed would do we'll in fiat. When
wet it could be placed on end in the UNI
. brella rack to DRAIN and then dried by
slipping it under the steam register. We
had two of them in the ark. Nice, COM
I panionable little creatures they were that
|. snainly associated with the caterpiliars
and Pekin, ducks. Their principal draw
back, as remember, was that they sur
fered from malaria through being built so
close to the ground.
But if medical science really demands
q line of dog martyrs for vivisection pur-
poses, it seems to me the bloodhound