Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
by ANNE HARD.

little intervening space into tn
White fHouse corridors and up Il
the little elevator to his rooms on TIL
second fiooH.
He walksN alone. Time was when Eoi
Faov CAV and friendly sheep dog, friskes
about him 2RS ne went. lime was Wnet
Rob Row IeAaped ahead of him into tn,
library. curked behind him in the grea
chair bv tile fire of an evening. Tine
was when Rob Roy curled up beside
him on the rug while the great of thu
land came Eor conference with the Ma
tion's Chief Executive; when he sat be-
side his master with his head agains
the Presidents knee at breakfast OF
the Mayfidkwer, swapping up a tidbi
furtiyely shipped to him from the Presi'
dents plate1
Time waS when the President listen.
ing soIemnlky at state dinners to solemn
utilities, wdbuld quietly slip bit of cake
into his pCRcket. Dinner over, solemn
utilities over. he would put the cake or
tke edge on the mantelpiece and watch
while Rob Hoy, at highest tiptoe, would
tnudge it off and eat 1t down.
Rob Row. is dead, and it will be Ions
before another dog takes his place ir
THE Presidents affections.
Time wan, too, when the graceful
sVray-clad woman walking along the
fSoufhern IaIKn behind the White House
would reach out often to pat the head
of her wikite collie, Prudence Prim
Prudence Psrim lives now only in pic
lures and in her owners remembrance
of dogs hi umanlty and consistency ano
faith.
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THERE We're other dogs in the White
House Awhen these two were, so
brief a timHe ago, alive, and there are
lrther dogs fthere now, whole family
Inf them. HBut Rob Roy and Prudence
Prim still eare the most dearly loved
\ The biorraIphy of those dogs has gone
Along as steadily as the biography Of
their owner$. Their varying characters
khaye been afnd are source of constant
isvmpatheticS interest to these two hui
man beinpsk who have so little time
away from 1.-THE responsibilities Of their
position forg the simple pleasures they
The whittk House cherishes its family
inf dogs. BIlt each dog must take his
lks,lace in thef family or break home ties
las a human tfamily occasionally divorces
There was the Airedale Paul Pry, for
instance. Paul Pry was a typical one
man dog. on rather one-woman dog, for
with thoroughly monopolistic intent he
nevoted himself to Mrs. Coolidge. He
made it clesAr to every one that he con-
Sidered himself her sole protector, and
protect her he would against even the
most benevolent.
When SHE was leaving the White
House one day to go to Northampton
kshe sent herb maid back to her room for
something She had forgotten. Paul Pry
Ereceived THAT maid at the threshold
with a nipt in her hand. He figured
that he had seen Mrs. Coolidge go out
) and close the door, so closed that door
must remaiYh till she herself opened it.
The servants grew progressively more
.kerrorized. ifIitil finally, at SwampScott,
he was TURNED over for a time to the
Marine gua1d, as constituting the only
other living things as haro-ooiled as
cant Andrews of the Presidents
Yacht. the Mayfiower, evinced lively
Interest in Hirn, so Mrs. Coolidge turned
Paul PRIV ovdkr to that vivaciouS mariner.
scarcely had Andrews gone on days
shore leave when Paul Pry was of, ap-
parently trying to find the White House
and Mrs. Coolidge again.
But the NIayfower's steward thought
he was resoturceful enough to look after
one AiredaiA, and took Paul Pry home
to his wifek His wife had to lock up
the dog when she wanted to spank the
children. SO the steward, being man
of peace, gatve I'D. Paul Pry went back
to the Marines as an efficient mascot
for red-blookded he-men.
Then thAre was the wire-hair Peter
Pan, which, just wouldn't get on with
the other clogs. He Is now occupying
his time watching over the canaries, the
love birds arid the goldfish in the house
hold Of Ted Clark, the Presidents Sec
Eetary.
3THERE wAs little Boston Beans, the
I l. pup whose anguished efforts to
match his short legs to the long leaps
Of the collie$ furnished a brief season of
amusement mot unmixed with pathos to
the White House family.
II ever dog laughed, it was Prudence
Prim at her Town jokes on Beans. When
Beans VENT out on a leash, Prudence
would seize one end Of the strap and
s1et Beans But till he was running as
fast as his short legs would carry him.
Then Prudence would snap the leash
land run inl circles while Beans went
nnver and ov9r the sloping lawn, like the
Eggs that are rolled there at Easter.
It was fun for Prudence, but hard on
Beans. So beans now enjoys the con-
g&entment of sole possession in the FAM
'hly house att 81 MaSSasoit street, North
hampton, Mass.
I And there was Blackberry, the furry
BLACK chowI Blackberry had the kind
Ipf voice that Shakespeare wrote about,
Eand he bayed the moon whether there
twas any Moon or not. He seemed to
sengage in al perpetual hog-calling con-
stest. /
land what with his evident determine
ftion to encourage the other dogs to
engage in vocal contests, the classic
Icalmness of the White House corridors
got completely shattered.
Ladies sitting Sedately in the Blue
Room, preparing to make formal call,
fwere startled by strange noises, and
gentlemen wondered whether they had
stepped on something on the way In.
Blackberry obviously needed home
where he gould be soloiSt under no
temptation TO organize choir. He was
given to Miss Trumbull, the daughter
OF the governor Of Connecticut.
Rob Royl and Prudence Prim, Paul
Pry and Beans and Blackberry came
and stayed their term and went. But
there are others still barking and play
ing and roughing one another and lick
ing the Presidents hand and showing
Ean their doggtsh way their liking for a
\ white House home. Ruby Rough,
Calamity Jane. King Kole and Tiny
Tim are stfal there.
Ruby Rough Is brown collie who is
both skinny and silky. She has strange
ears, which some of the White House
family call Foxy" and others call SIM
fply "nule-ears."
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r UBY might not get a cup in a
- championship show, but she has
her merits. She has a playful and af-
fectionate nature and the President
likes her She is the first one to bark
for the bit Of cheese or cooky he takes
out of tin box in his bedroom at night
for hnr C11a eloopS al tho foot Of his