The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-15
BULL pup BREAKS
UP CAT LUNCHEON
Mrs. Anita Comfort BrOOks'S
Central Park Affair Ended
by Faux Pas.
s1OJy GUESTS GO HUNGRY

Mrs anita Comfort Brooks. VINO
lives at tlt' Hotel Wellington. Seventh
ovenuc and Fifty-ffth street, gave a
luncheon al fresco in Central Park yes
,er,lay afternoon In honor OF her
Persian cat. Edward VII.
Publicity OF any sort is displeasins to
Mrs. Brooks, therefore only two blanket
Sioux. n boy scout with a velvet cushion
for Edward. an intrusive bull pup named
Mike. a few policemen n n crowd Of
perhaps 500 persons attended the
luncheon.
|, was Mrs. Anita Comfort Brooks
who discovered several years ago a
rather quaint method OF disposing Of
.uerfuous jewels. Finding that her
isyel box was getting all cluttered up
with loose diamonds ana sapphiree, h
had the stones set In the ears Of her
bet cats. a within which developed an en-
,.rely new variety Of crime-pickcatting
-because persons without morals or
culture used to ambush Mrs. Brooks's
fancy felines and pry diamonds nj of
their ears.
All OF this was before Mrs. Brooks
became president Of the Gotham Club
and began stoutly to advocate a tax o.
bachelors.
BE that as Il may. she decided. sew
s,al DAYS ago. that Edward VII. Ed
ward OF the funny coat and bushy tail,
must be entertained at "A luncheon In
Central Park. II was necessary to &c,
a permit for this rocco soiree from the
PARK Department. but the Park Depart
men, figured that IL anybody wanted &c
a; around on a Central Park lawn and
feed lady fingers to a cat he or she
had a legal right so to do. and the per.
nit was issued.
Vision Of Feline Fricassee.
Then Mrs. Anita Comfort Brook.
wondered who she could invite that
would add to the distinction of the party
and she thought OF Sioux chief F1yins
Hnl and his squaw. Wa-he-ha, both Of
whom she had met when they were witt
the l0l Ranch show at Madison Squar,
Garden. Flying Birds X. 5. V. =. cam
back IN a hurry. because the simple
minded aborigine had n notion that Ed
warl VII. was 10 be served on toast o.
as fricassee. 1t was a new dish to TN
mble red man. but he was willing TO tr,
anything once.
Altogether, Mrs. Anita Comfort Brooks
sen, out twenty invitations, mostly t
persons she hai ente rtained at her par
ties for soul examination and spir!tua
Wllft. They came enthusiastically at
o'clock yesterday afternoon, n the.
toun1 Mrs. Brooks waiting in the lobb.
Of the Hotel Wellington with Edward
who didn't seem to care for the part.
a. much. perhaps. as he should have.
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velvet cushion upon which Onward wa
10 be carried, approached the intelligen
ca, spoke his mind freely. In prosan
Persian. His grammar was atrocious
but none present had a shadow OF
doubt as TO his meaning.
According to Edward VII, guest o
honor. the wole party was blank
dashei-blank nonsense and he was goint
away from there. With a splendid lea
he cleared the boy scout. Mrs. Brooks
the two Sioux and half a dozen other
and lit in the stairway TO the basement
Pausing not at all. Edward continue
his fight until he brought w in a Coz
bin. from which he was yanked by Wei
.ngton bellhops.
Trailing Two by Two.
Edward Is an ecru colored cat. bl
when he came out Of the coal bin or
never woul have known II. He was III
exact shade OF the bellboy who brougi
him up for air. After a lot of scrubbir
and tanning and beribboning Edwar
was acain made ready and the proce!
sion started for the park-Mrs. Brook
leading. then the two Sioux. then Ec
ward on the velvet cushion. and final
the guests trailing two by two.
Luncheon x.fa aArxsAl IN N MN ~