Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-05-17
Her Ideal Pet


Pets are emotional necessities. OBJ
serve the number of fox terriers Sc
questered in small apartments. There
IS no common, easily comprehended
y JOY in the close companionship OF an
uneasy fox terrier It has been said
of the breed that a devoted master
or mistress can sit up all night train
ing specimen, aud in the morning 1t
will find something outrageous and
totally nes with which to demoralize
its environment. Yet folk in small
fats and folk in studios, they of the
tribe of the folding Bedouin," do har
Dor fox terriers. 1t must be that they
, answer some occult need of the soul,
they and the loud-voiced felines, the
monkeys and the parrots, that one
venient spots about town. Mankind
is gregarious, even TO. the point of
fiOcking with fur, fins and feathers
when matter more attractive cannot
be acquired in sufficient numbers to
fill up all the space.
Jane Corners is alone in the family
apartment for six weeks this summer.
| Jane Corners, felt that need of the
soul which calls for the companion
ship of something and decided to
adopt a pet. Now as a. cursorY view
. the best of all pets for a busy woman
appeared to- be, a turtle. A turtle, so
every one told Jane, has, a distinct
/ personality of it's own, yet never
forces it upon one. A turtle eats at
/ the most oblging intervals or not, as
s1its ones convenience, and very lit
tie, of anything that happens to be at
hand. A. turtle is as quiet as; domes-
ticated sphynX and of So retiring a
disposition that a chance motion in
his direction will send him into his
shell for hours on end. Jane Connors
decided to- have turtle.
No sooner had she reached the de-
cfslon than, as; luck would have it.
Jim Sykes stopped by to- take hel
motoring, and in wooded spot up on
Jerome avenue they spied turtle
, diligently crossing the road, and ran
: right over him. Jane hoped out OF
The car in NO time and, finding the
creature uniniured and kissing in a
lively fashion, at once secured him,
brought him home to the apartment
and christened him the District At
tCrney.
1t was, very late when she reached
L. 49,
Just find proper pan for the District
Attorney, so she wrung out towel
in cold water and put it on the fiopi
in the sitting room by the open win
dow. The District Attorney was a
mud turtle, and the towel seemed as
good as a bank of mud for him to
walow in. Now Jane was alone in
the apartment and she left light, the
tall standing lamp turned very low to
scare burglars, and she went to bed
| with her door open to lGt a breeze
through.
In the middle of the night she
awoke. In the sitting room sounded
the most blood curdling humping back
swung the door wide open, and her
heart turned over and jumped up into
her mouth Along the floor, wriggling
10 and fro and humping like mad, flop
red and squirmed a long snake-like
white something. To and fro, up and
down it turned and twisted and pres
entity made for the open door into the
bedroom. AS it came toward her
Jane remembered with sick despair
| that the matches were on the side
board in the dining room. That Ions
sGu:rming white thing was now bump
i!ls. and wrig2linG directly beside the
head Of the bed. Jane thought OF
screaming for help but the people in
tie next apartment are awful gossips
and Jane is unconditional and the
| screams wouldn't come.
Trctty soon Jane remembered that
her ancestors were Puritans, ard the
desce nded part Of her took her in
hanf: and said to her. Jane ConnorS
| set up this second and get those
matches" Jane got up. The thing
wriggled after her, now silent on the
rugs. now humping hard on the hard
wood floors, but chasing along be-
| cid her almost as fast as she. When
they got directly opposite the tai
| standing lamp, the thing was between
her and it. She got up all her courage
and she jumped over it and put UP
hand to turn up the light. But just
| at that moment her eyes fell on the
J thing, and it was making violent
| souirm right for her. She sidestepped
!. suddenly and the standing lamp went
| over with a crash, and there she was
! with the squirming creature very
close to her in the pitch dark.
! She was pretty glad to hear the PEG,
PIE from the next apartment knocking
on the door and she was pretty glad
| TO let them in, if they are awful COS
J sips. When they managed to strike
| a light, of course there was the turtle