Evening star., 1937-05-24
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
Of Interesting Events
and Things.
ENJOYS
ENJOYS
- URSUING. but not very fast, ar
y investigation Of the pooch sit.

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~ URSUING, but not very fast, an
- investigation Of the pooch sit
uation In various embassies
L here, We unearthed the fact
that there Is not q single dachshund
owned at the German Embassy Gf
there is, he isn't registered at the
District license ONCE and had better
stay close to home). We also found
that the diplomats as q group have ar
rived at very commonplace names for
their dogs, probably without holding
. single round-table conference on
the matter.
At the Peruvian Legation there Is q
dog named Toby. Philip Broad of the
British Embassy owns one known a
Andrew (the formal British way. you
know. Mr.. j. K. Uys of the Union
Of South Africa calls his wire hair
fox-terrier Scraps. The British AM
bassador. Sir Ronald Lindsay, keeps
an English cocker answering to the
name Of Jumbo, which made us won
der If his excellency's dog was by any
chance akin to the cocker owned by
the Dan Terrells.
The Terrells dog, at very tender
age indeed, is now the size Of a full
grown cocker, and still growing They
are expecting it to begin breaking
things in two, like a Newfoundland
any day now, or maybe come in the
house carrying Jug of brandy, to In.
dicate Its st. Bernard antecedents.
WHITE LIE.
Like people, dogs come in all
sizes and ages my, my. how ne do
90 ON, 1t being generally acknowl-
edged that charming lady n,ay
lie about either her size or her age
II she so chooses. As for dogs,
they usually haze nothing to say
on these subjects, but zoe know of
a sales0irl in an upper Connecticut
Avenue store ,Dho ,Dill tell any one
she knoUs her correct age, and no
cheating, but likes to slice the fig.
nre Uhen some one asks the d1e
OF her pet dog
The dog is still quite trisky, but
happens to be years old, going
on 10. She prefers to say it's S
years old, going on s, il anybody
asks.
Lots OF horse o,Dners po1lld like
to do that, too, except that you can
get a pretty dorned good idea of
a horses age from looking at his
teeth. OF course, il you feel deep
ly about the matter, it's always
possible to stop acknowledging the
horses birthdays, and just keep
zen, stopped until all the teeth tall
out or Dedr do1Dn. By that time
neither you nor the horse ,Dtll care
dnyhov.
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TIP-OFF.
GHOULD any local tax drivers hearts
~ swell with Joy and good cheer or
hearing couple Of impressive lady
fares. presumably 4 dowager and her
daughter. tell them to drive down Il
Winchester, or up to Boston, or some
such, let them beware.
We've just heard Of one cabbie hers
who says he hauled this impressive
oouple-well-dressed, smooth-spoken
genteel-all around the countryside
until the bill was $27. They told hin
to stop by their hotel, where theye
cash check and pay of.
He waited and waited outside, grew
suspicious, circled the block, caught
them taking 1t on the lam down q
side street.
Haven't you forgotten something
1adies7" he said, trying to pretend
there WAS nothing wrong.
"Scram. sucker" they said in unison
knowing full well what was wrong.
The driver thought 1t over 4 bit
then scrammed.
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READER.
THE same Washington lawyer who
recently reported that he found
bulldog on the rear seat Of his au-
tomobile comes forward at this point
with another anecdote for the Depart
ment Of Bulldogs, Birds and Bees.
Ihls particular story probably should
be regarded as extremely Significant
by our circulation and editorial de-
partments, but what the significance
we can't imagine.
Seems the lawyer fellow was told
by his wife, in no uncertain terms, to
straighten up the canary bird cage,
put q piece Of paper under it when
taking out the sand tray. He did.
Placed copy Of The Star about 18
inches below, spread out on a book
case. Says he came back to find the
canary almost falling out OF its cage
through the bars, trying to read the
news items in the paper. (He doesn't
say what news items, which leaves our
census OF personalities right where
it was)