The Republican journal., 1913-07-17
Hearts Delight.

born in Paris on Easter Day, 1903, in a
splendid mansion on the Champs Elysees.
Her father was -blooded Chinese
dog, but her mother, though eminently
respectable, and much beloved in the
boulangerie where she lived, did not be-
long to canine royalty, and so brought the
bar sinister to an otherwise noble es-
cutcheon.
Fo-fo, however, makes up in intelli-
gence what she lacks in breeding. She
has, for dog, the phenomenal vocabu-
larry of eighty words, all but two of them
being French.
She is quite the daintiest creature i'm
aginable. Her tastes are thoroughly
aristocratic. We have even detected in
her, not only delicacy of sentiment, but
a keen sense of humour as we'll. Fo-fo
weighs Just ten pounds, and is covered
usual reddish colour. shading off to pur-
est gold. We call her "Titian blonde"
A stranger in the street once said" What
an extraordinary colour for dog"
She is impartial in her favours This
is rather in the nature of blessing for
her globe trotting master and mistress
For Fo-fo wins hearts everywhere, and
is served willingly on account OF her eX-
seedingly friendly manners and enticing
overtureS towards amicable relations
with everyone with whom she comes in
contact.
We believe she has artistic perception.
For it is fact that she sat with great
dignity on her hind-legs on the back of
one of the stone lions in the famous inner
court of the Alhambra in Grenada, to be
photographed. She gazed so fxedly at
the statue of Moses, by Michael Angelo,
in the Church of San Pietro in Vinculo,
in Rome, that she attracted the attention
of all the other tourists there.
She dearly loves Alpine climbing and
the glaciers of Switzerland, and has often
raced with the half-naked Arab boys over
the shining sands of the Desert of Sa-
hara. She has sat close beside the ear
of the silent Sphinx, but she has never
told US yet what she heard there, in the
sunrise.
Fo-fo has ridden miles and miles on
camel and donkey back, in Upper Egypt,
safely ensconced on the comfortable lap
of her mistress.
In Morocco the Moorish lads begged
for the privilege of holding her, if only
for few minutes. Living ball of fire"
they POLITICALLY named her in the sonorous
tongue Of Islam. Her tireless feet have
wandered all over the Holy Land. She
knows many pleasant corner in Jerusa-
lem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Tlberlas.
She has bathed in the Sea of Galilee, and
has felt also the witchery and fascination
of Orient lands.
From Constantinople last May she
wrote letter to the New York Herald,
signed by herself, enclosing twenty
francs. to save two poor dogs from vivi-
section.
In Damascus and Beyrout she excited
the envy and was the innocent cause of
some strife among the wretched pariah
dogs. At Smyrna she lodged the health
inspectors, who afterwards accorded her
free landing permit In Athens she
ate the grass growing around the ancient
Acropolis, and at Corinth Tapped the
water of the canal
She attended the Oberammergau
Passion Play in 1910, and the Exposition
of Turin in 1911
She has been all over beauteous Bava-
ia, and Germany and Austria she has
cause to remember for there they made
her wear an odlous muZZle, to which in
dignity she most violently objected, con-
sidering it, no doubt, calumny on her
FfepTOdcnaDle character.
Good old England, alas. she will never
see, on account of the excessively long
quarantine imposed upon dogs. She has
been to Gibralter, however, but had to
remain on board sEi p during our visit to
Malta.
Fo-fo is spending the winter in this en-
chanted isle of Corsica amid the semi
tropical bloom, but is meditating trip
tc Raipi,1p, opd Holland tb;, oon,;rcr
summer.
She knows to perfection the art of
travelling; is as quiet as mouse always:
never cross or out of sorts; contented
with odd hours for sleeping and eating;
Interested wherever she goes and in all
she sees.
She writes her own postcards. her
mistress holding the pen in her little paw.
She is more like child than dog.
Her dotlng master and mistress would
make nearly any sacrifice for her COM
fort, and never begrudge her the cost.
Dear little Hearts Delight as we
often call her! Sweetest Fo-fo
She is almost human in her intelligence.
She travels always with her beloved rag
doll in her masters valise, and it is the
first thing she asks for when we arrive
at strange hotel. Her devotion to this
small toy is really pathetic. She takes
it to bed with her, and out to walk, and
even offers it share of her food.
A book might easily be written of
these nearly nine years of dear Fo-fo's
happy, well-filled, joyous little life. Our
own Hearts Delight"
GRACE C. D. FAvRE.
uNSIGHTlY FAcF SPOTS.