Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-09-06
Bill of Fare

Eyes, we've just had to chloroform
our last dog" sighed Mrs. Mack re-
signedly. "He had such bad tenn
per. No, we didn't bury him-we
couldn't unless we dug up the alley,
and we might have been arrested for
that. And it's so disagreeable to keep
dog around waiting for the authori-
ties to take him away that the boys
just took him down the street a few
blocks late at night and put him in
one OF the vestibules.
mo. of course, | didn't inquire. So
| don't know what they did with him.
Now we're looking around for another
dog"
Mrs. Mack frightened perceptibly as
she viewed the prospect of having
new pet. you know. it's awfully lone
some without a dog" she said But
let me tell you one thing-the next dog
is going to have very different bring
ing up.
"Our first dog was a, tiny black and
tan, and he was such a baby that we
fed him with cream through piece of
cotton. 1t was all very well for few
days while the feeding was a novelty,
but after that no one wanted to feed
hitn-and I simply had to! And when
he got big enough to eat common fare
he simply refused to touch it. So there
! | had to pay for an extra bottle of
cream every blessed day for that dog!
ut was months before he'd think of
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the cotton, too! Well, the dog catch
Crs got him at last, and I was so tired
of feeding him that l didn't try to bail
him out.
"Then We had Fanny. Fanny was a
tiny fuzzy puppy, and we simply
| adored her. But I thought | was wise
after my experience with the black
and tan, and I wouldn't feed her par
ticle of cream | made up my mind
that everything she ate and got used
to while she was young should be just
the common fare from the table. And
| insisted that she should get to lik-
ing vegetables while she was too
young to know any better.
1--WE got Fanny in the spring, when
we had fresh vegetables. Later on |
used to save skins and ends of the to-
matoes and cook them up with other
| things as had to feed Fanny.
THAT dog was splendid about it,
too; ate every scrap | gave her, and
l was delighted. That is, until the fall
came and tomatoes were too high to
buy every day.
81 cooked up Fannys dinner as usu-
| al-and the little scamp refused to
eat! After day or two got scared
| thought she was going to be ill, so
tried all sorts of delicacies to tempt
her appetite, but it was of no use.
She simply wouldn't eat and she grew
thin as a lath!
Finally one day we had guests, and
/ had salad again--and unthinkingly l
fixed up Fanny's food as usual. And
you should have seen that dog eat!
She ate and ate and ate-and when
she had finished all | had to give her
she lay by her plate and kept her nose
over It, just daring any one to take
it away! 1t was the tomatoes! She
had had them every day ssince she
was a puppy, and she couldn't eat
without them!
after Fanny died-we used to buy
canned tomatoes after that and it real
ly wasn't very expensive, though it
was a nuisance-we got collie.
Collie was a fine blue ribbon dog.
and my husband was lot prouder of
him than he was of his whole family
combined He'd strut up and down in
front of the house by the hour airing
the dog, just as of the dog hadn't been
out the whole blessed day airing him.
self! Collie used to get the best of
dog biscuit and choice cooked bits OF
meat. He wouldn't even look at the
things that ordinary dogs eat, and we
didn't expect him to. His beauty and
lineage entitled him to the best and
we gave it to him willingly.
However, when summer came we
planned to go away as usual. We
thought we'd go west, and the first
thing was to plan for was that Collie
should be we'll taken care Of. We
asked all our friends who knew Collie
we'll to take care of him in our abb
sence, but they all refused, gently but
FIRMLY couldn't think why. Finally
my husband asked a friend of ours out
in the country to take Collie, and he
consented. We sent Collie out there
the day we left on our little trip.
"At our first stopping place we found
telegram saying that Collie refused
to eat, being evidently lonesome with
out us. We laughed and said he'd get
over it. So we went on. At the Sec
ond city there was another telegram
saying that Collie hadn't eaten for
days and that we'd better return. We
did
1--WE found that Collie just wanted
doc, hiscnit and tenderlnini He wasn't