Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-01-29
FROM OUR
EXCHANGES
SALISBURY STICKS TO THE
SINGING MOUSE STORY

EulCn, SallSDufyS singing mouse,
said to be the only animal of its kind
in the United States except one in IL
imCis, made her debut before the mi
cfophone in Washington, D. c., on
Thursday of last week, and is report
ed to have scored shit"
Thte extraordinary little rodent sim
liar to an ordinary gray field mouse,
with the exception that she MARBLES
and trials like a canary, was carried
to the Capitol city by two of her
three owners, George F. Morris, 25-
year old farmer residing between Sal
isbury and Delmar, and John Dicker-
son, young farmland who resides with
the family on the 87-acre tract.
The third owner of the curiosity is
E. Irene Morris, sister of George, who
teaches school at New Market, Fred
erick county, the partnership" hav-
been formed by Mrs. Edith Morris,
65-year old widow of Caldwell j. Nor
ris, to whom she went to school as a
young girl and later wed, stated to
reporter of The Advertiser that the
profits, if any, from the mouse were
to go to the trio.
Both broadcasting officials and lis
tener, when Edith" did her chirping
over WJSV on a program from A.
M to A. M. last Thursday, were
laudable in their remarks.
In her performances during the first
hour and quarter she is said to have
sung very creditably but, like the
general run of musicians, revealed her
temperamental makeup by not choos-
ing to perform thereafter.
Edith" was carried to Washing
ton in her nifty 1Ox13x3O cage, and
went on the air from her own domicile.
Since she was taken out, on Sunday,
January 10, from her cage for the
purpose of posing" for newspaper
photographers and escaped, only to be
recaptured a few minutes later in a
couch-giving herself away by vocal
ising-the standing order is that she
does not leave the enclosure.
Even when Acknowledgements mo-
vietone outfit was sent to Salisbury to
record her notes and film her, a few
day ago, the mandate was enforced
and they had to give the job up until
a future time.
Edith" however, is weekly getting
more tame and more controllable.
One noticeable trait, her owners as
sert, is that she sings better in the
dark and when the atmosphere is not
so warm.
Her diet is principally oatmeal, sup
plemented by cheese, corn meal, and
sweet potatoes.
1t was about week before Christ
mas that the family first heard the
faint singing noise in the pantry, then
in other parts of the house and early
this year Dickerson caught the mouse
In basket of sweet potatoes-a veg
'etable for which Wicomico county is
renowned, being one of the leading
producing counties of the nation.
TIL two young men plan to put
Edith" on exhibition, locally, if ar
rangements can be made for an am
plifying system. If such a venture
proved profitable tour is planned.
It is estimated that the mouse sings
about half the time.
For a half-hour, upon the occasion
of The Advertiser reporters visit,
there was no semblance of a "con-
cert" Then was noticed a low chirp-
ing noise, followed by thrilling, and
the news-gatherer had "seen and
heard" for himself what number of
persons of veracity had already told
him.
Yes, we disbelievers, Salisbury has
a singing mouse and while it does not
have the volume of canary, its notes
very much resemble those of the pets
of the feathered kingdom.