Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1929, Page 87

ILLUSTRATED Part 7—8 Pages sk MAGAZINE SECTION he Sunday Sthar, ST FICTION HUMOR WASHIN( ¥TON, B ©, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 98, 1929. AND Social Rating Disturbs Animals Domiciled at the White House National Mrs. Coolidge and two of her pets on the White House lawn. Photo, Aristocrats of Kennels Look Askance at One Kitty, Heedlessly Enjoying Free- dom of Presidential Corridors—Jeal- ousy Also Exists Among Those Who Make Up Under New Re Canine World gime—Distinc- tions Between Upper Crust and Rabble. BY REX COLLIER. ISCONTENT is rampant in the White House kennels. A “social precedence” con- troversy appears to have arisen over the fact that a cat with no better name than Kitty has purred his way into favor at the Executive Mansion. While the new White House cat has & most .commonplace name. even his canine enemies admit he comes of a rather nice family—with Persian pedi- gree, and 50 on, The main cause for irritation seems to be that Kitty rates the freedom of the White House corridors to an extent seldom permitted presidential dogs, how- ever distinguished or well mannered When one considers that representa- tives of the upper crust in dogdom with such impressive cognomens Aas King Tut. Cragwood Padriac and En- glehurst Giilette, must tolerate a mere cat with the inelegant name of Kitty one can understand how aggravating the situation has become. It is rumored, moreover, that jealousy exists over the social among the dogs themselves. ing Tut, the big Belgian police dog which has been a member of the Hoo- ver household for four or five years said to look askance at the newer addi- tions to the pet contingent. As an old-time favorite of the President and Mrs. Hoover, he feels a little peeved that they should divide their attention among newcomers Tut is an aristocra one. He does not the rabble. One vouched for before Once acquainted some rating if there ever was make friends witn has to be properly Tut wag his r, he is how tail a fast and an amiable friend and com- panion as President Hoover has found wa to the Hoovers given while he e that the that name chosen. The name given for | Tut is a real Pharaoh among dogs. His | intelligence s almost human and his bearing is truly regal. Tut ingratiated himself with his mas- ter at the Hoover home on § street by learning to bring the morning nev paper to Mr. Hoover and to serve a. paper weight when the wind threat- ened to scatter the various sections over che room or porch, Sometimes, it is said, he took the paper to Mr. Hoover's bedside and awakened him. Conditions at the White House have prevented Tut from performing these services of late. but he has shown his affection for his master in other ways PR R. HOOVER s extremely fond of his old friend. He thought enough of him to pose beside him for the pho- tographers during the election campaign something he refused to do with many human beings. The picture of Tut and his master was prominently displaved during the campaign, and it proved to be one of the most popular_“shots” of Mr. Hoover ever taken. The picture undoubtedly played its part in winning votes for Tut’s owner, for its appeal was potent. It proved to'be an effective bit of propaganda against the too-prevalent idea that Mr. Hoover was a machine in- stead of a human being Assuredly, the dog's style has been somewhat cramped since coming to the White House. At § street he had all of the big garden in the rear in which to roam and was soie monarch of the place. At the White House he has felt like a bird in a gilded cage. His com- ings and gomngs are governed by a col- ored master of the hounds, and his liv- ing quarters are ed by four otner dogs. He is not mitted to run large in the White House grounds except on special occasions, and then he has to act dignified. as it were. It is all rather anno for a canine Pharaoh. Another police dog has been added to the White House collection as a com- | panion for Tut. His name is Buckeyve ORIGIN OF REED ORGAN. [7 bas been & long road the seed organ has traveled. starting with the littie -pipe sheng the Chinese, until has reached its present magnitude w 10,000 or more pipes drums and cymbals, chimes and huge 16-foot dia- pasons Dr. Berthold 1 fer, curator of an- thropology at the Fisid Museum of Natural History, has found this road long but almost direct and has suc- ceeded in making an extensive collec- tion of shengs while on an expedition to China The sheng is a mouth organ in t and is built somewhat on the lines a large meerschaum pipe or a hug saxophone. The bowl, which is lacquered wood provides the air chest. from the top of which protrude the 17 pipes free eeds. A s n each pipe. just above the point at which it enters the 1, must be closed with the finger before the pipe will send forth its mu- sical note ‘The barmonium or reed organ is the not s high-sounding a name for a dog lof such excellent breeding. The other direct of the sheng, for, in the century Prof. C. G, Kratzenstein invented this forerunner of the present huge organs, after exam ining a sher from China which had been brought Playing the sheng, delightful as it might be and as entertaining as it might prove, has its drawbacks. In fact it has reached that point in the estimation of the Chinese that it is not popular at ali. For one thing, the player must draw his breath in as well as blow it out to keep the sheng going. This results sooner or later in inflam- matory diseases of the bronchial tubes and is not conducive to that longevity in which the Chinese find satisfaction Then, too, the sheng is said to be s0 enchanting that the player forgets all else but his playing and will nothing but play his sheng from morn- ing till night unsound practice, and the sheng player also finds that it is not thoughtful of his neighbor to play s much. This | perhaps is the greatest point of con- ) trast with the saxophone. do | s | The Persian cat | and a permanent guest | at the White House. National Photo. dogs are of different families, but aii boast of fine lineage Cragwood Padriac, | as Pat, i< an Irish wolf hound. He i< said to be the first of his breed to invade the White House grounds, al- though his family is one of the oldest in canine history. His ancestors have had their praises sung in prose and poetry, for they were famed for their devotion and bravery. Pat was given to Mrs. Hoover by a former schoolmate, Mrs. Norwood Browning Smith of Urbana, Va though still a pup, he stands a yard high at the shoulder and weighs some 140 pounds. Throughout the pages of history hounds of this breed have been 2ppropriate gifts to kings and emper- o1s. Armies have been thrown against each other because of jealousy over the possession of them, according to tra- dition. Many stories are told of how Irish | wolf hounds have given their lives in | that children of their masters i not suffer harm. A noted in- | stance is that of G by Liewellyn, Prince of Wales, in 1210 Gelert’s fame has been precerved in poetry. The faithful hound died by his master’s hand under tragic circum- stances, One day when leaving for the chase, Llewellyn left his infant son in | the charge of the dog. On returning {he found the child’s room in disorder his child missing and blood everywherc Hearing Llewellyn enter, the hound, lert, i covered with blood, crawled out of a corner to his master’s feet. In a blind fury, thinking that the hound had | killed his child, Llewellyn slew Gelert Then he saw the boy safe and sound p in & corner, while nearby was e body of a gaunt gray wolf. slain by Gelert. Llewellyn was o grief-stricken i that he built a chapel to the memory {of the dog. It is of such forbears that Cragwood Padriac_comes. Pat's sire is the im- we_Kilconly O'Cragwood | 2nd his dam is Cragwood Macha. His maternal ancestry has gained as much fame in this country as has his paternal line in England. His grandmother was prominently exhibited at the American Kennel Clib show in 1926 ported Felixs | don setter. also of proud pedigree | He is called Gillette for short around | the White House. Gillette is the small- !est of the White House dogs, but in his | own estimation he is as big as the rest |of them He has a rather long body, & | shaggy coat of hair and a fuzzy face. High Boy is another member of the | setter family domiciled at the White | House. He is of Irish extraction Whoopee, a Schnautzer with a sad ex- { pression that belies his name, was 2 Economically, this is an | guest at the White House kennels for | White House with them, Mrs. Coolidge several weeks, but he seemed to be so | Mrs. Smith, the lady in Virginia who presented Mrs. Hoover with Pat Two theories are advanced as to the Rob Roy and Digna were the two ! Reuben. recently presented to Mrs. Hoover, popularly known Al- | a hound owned | | ! JaNGLEHURST GILLETTE is a Gor- This horse was President Roosevelt’s pet. hoto snapped in Rock Creek Park. Clinedinst Photo. House gift Pets of the White House when William Howard Taft was President. These | were the favorite riding horses of that administra- tion. | Clinedinst Phota reason for Whoopee's retirement. First, | | it is possible that his jazzy name shock- ed the finer sensibilities of his elite companions in the kennels. Of course, he came of just as fine a family as any 1 of the others, but his given name seem jed to indicate careless ancestry. Sec {ond. it is just as possible that Whoopee | really possessed the pep implied by his !name and that the sudden attempt to { transform him into a_dignified society | hound did not sit well with him. At any rate, he plainly showed dissatis- faction with his regal surroundings and it became advisable to give him a change of venue { For the time being, at {relen of the collie and the i the White House s Collies were the fav | President Coolldge. least, the Alredale at to be over. pets of former the Airedale | of the Harding | i and i was the “official dog” administration { an Afredale, a red chow, a black chow, a police dog, a mongrel collie and a | Llewellyn setter—not all at the same time, however. High life at the White | | House told on some of these presiden- | tial pets, several of them developing { canine ailments and dying. ! Prim, the beautiful white collie whic Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge took on vaca tion with them, died in the Black Hills and was Interred there with ceremony { Paul Pry. a mischievous Airedale, suf- fered from stomach complaint, attribu able, perhaps, to his penchant for swal- llowing stones and similar indigestible Prudence ! | "Paul Pry, by the way, was officially dubbed the “bad doggle’* of the Coolidge | | pack. He became so unmanageable | while the President was at Northamp- ! ton one Summer that he sent him to a | Marine camp for disciplining. Taken | i sick there, he received medical atten- | | tion, and it was found he had filled | his stomach with seashells and stones, | The geological collection was removed | and the dog recovered. | ~Tiny Tim. the red chow, was given | to Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge in the Black | Hills, and they brought him to the | grew attached to the pet, and when she miserable there that he was given to|left the White House took Tiny Tim to | some all by herself at the White House. Northampton with her. now. He 15 there Thesg lion cubs were White | but and Tut. s from Africa. National Photo. President Hoover King tional Photo The fate President: Harding: and his favorite Laddie Bo Natioan! Photo. pet. Englehurst Gillette and Whoopee, new pets installed at the White Housc by the President and Mrs. Hoover. National Photo. idges. ‘The mongrel collie had plainer name of Bessie. The big black | police dog was called King Cole. A "I"HE queerest pet in the White H(ms!“ grounds during the Coolidge | regime was Rebecca, the raccoon. Re- | becca was sent from Mississippl for the Thanksgiving dinner of the President, Mr, and Mrs. Coolidge, on learn- ing thai she had been a pet. spared her from the ax and installed her in a special cage in the White House grounds. Rebecca was exceedingly tame and Mrs. Coolidge often led her around at the end of a leash. Sometimes Rebecea took a notion to seek the great open spaces and her disappearance caused much consterna- tion on the part of the presidential household. | On one occasion the 'coon was recap- | tured on the steps of the State, War and Navy Building, and another tlme.‘ while vacationing with the Coolldi in Wisconsin, she hid in the top of a tall tree while Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge and a corp of aides conducted an in- | tensive search. This restlessness gave rise to the | eory that Rebecca might be lone- the s0 a companion was found for her in the form of another raccoon named | becca turned up her nose | ticipated. departed and Rebecca herself finally sent to the Zoo. Two lions almost broke into charmed circle of White House pe during the last administration, Wilson Jacks of the hounds, n. arrangements the cubs in they Coolidge was were much the kennels, but from ariled to find that the rger than he He sent them out 00 for safekeeping. Before the arrival of the anima i J i The Coolidges had three white collies, | other white collies owned by the Cool- | at Reuben, and Reuben, feeling in- the | sulted, returned the animosity. Reuben was the ts much to the worriment of the former ma&tt'll' All had been made to keep when abroad President ey had an- to the | s President_Coolidge notified the colored man, Jackson, to prepare for their re- ception. “Know anything about lios Mr, Coolidge naively of the master of the hounds. “N-n-no, sir,” Jackson expostulated. “Better brush up on it, then” said. ing here." “Yes, sir—big ones?” “Not_very ferocious, President, seriously. you except on.the heel.” Jackson's jaw grew firm. “They'll never bite me on the heel, the colored man avowed. Tame cats were popular pets about Coolidge the White House during Mr. keeping | inquired he “There’s a couple of them com- explained the | “They never bite | | | | House while Taft The famous cow which supplied milk for the White was President. aiministration. The most famous Cool- | Doodie’ or ‘America,’ the parrot would %lge cat was Tige, whose fondness for urnal prowling caused his master mistress considerable anguish. 9ige’s first disappearance precipitated 8 city-wide search, during which the r:dio was brought into play. Tige at kist was found near the Navy Build- g, his identity at first being unknown. Ble was incarcerated in a closet. Later 2 was properly identified by a White Jiouse attache and was returned to the Sresident, who gave him a good scold- 2. Tige's wanderlust was incurable, however, and he finally disappeared permanently. * Xk Kk X MR- COOLIDGE, like Mr. Hoover, derived much pleasure from the White House pets. The former is said 1o have been too indulgent with them. His habit of slipping a plece of meat or 2 cube of sugar to his dogs at meal- time disrupted their diet and may have been the root of later ailments affecting some of them. Most of the recent mistresses of the White House have been pet-lovers and they frequently visited local pet stores to inspect the birds, cats and dogs or to obtain special foods or medicines for their own pets. Not all favored pets of Presidents and taeir families have been of the canine or feline variety. President Wil- son had a flock of sheep pastured in the White House grounds. President Taft Wad a cow. The Roosevelts had rabbits, squirrels, pigeons, canaries, an educated goat and even turtles, horned toads and bull-frogs. This assortment was demanded by the Roosevelt chil- dren. President McKinley had a yel- low-headed parrot which he called “the most intelligent bird I ever saw.” “This bird” McKinley once told friends, “would complete any ordinary song which I would begin to hum. For example, if I stopped after singing or whistling a few notes of ‘Yankee | finish the song. The McKinley parrot attained a rep- utation an admirer of the ladies. It was claimed than whenever a group of women approached his cage he would cry, “Oh, look at the pretty girls!” There probably would be a couple of wild animals cavorting in the White House grounds now but for the fact that there was no way of bringing them | there from their native climes. Mrs. Hoover was presented with a monkey | and a species of Nicaraguan wildeat known as an ocelot during her recent good will travels below the Equater. Both were the gifts of Marines on the U. S. S. Maryland. Hoover tried valiantly to make with the monkey, but without success. She even tried feeding him | some French pastry and cookies brought fresh from her table. The monkey re- fused to eat them. She had to return | him to his original owner. The ocelot behaved in much the same manner. He was about the size of an overgrown alley cat and was spotted somewhat like a leopard. Mrs. Hoover endeav~ ored to lead him around the deck by a string. but he was most recalecitrant. When she picked him up to fondle him he squirmed vigorously and scratched her with his sharp claws. The ocelot also went back to the Marines. Even then Mrs. Hoover sald she would like to keep the animals, but she explained there was no way of taking them over the Andes and back to the United States. What Kitty, the Persian cat, would have done if he had been given a Cen- tral American ocelot for a companion is something to think about. At least it would have aggravated the soclal prece- dence situation, in which Kitty now holds the upper paw, and over which there has been much growling of late beneath the White House pertico. But Kitty's purring continues un- abated. CAPRICIOUS ISLAND. S capricious as the weather of Spring an island that has appeared, disappeared, appeared and disappeared again off the Island of Chatham near Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. It wasn't verv much of an island at best, and probably would have passed along almost unnoticed if it hadn’t had | such retiring ways. In fact, there is some doubt now ‘as to whether it can be called an island. It first came into notice with a roar on November 4, 1911, when a series of violent explosions was followed by the emergence of an island of mud. Sir George Le Hunte, the governor, accompanied by the chief justice and other officials, visited the island, and explored its entire surface of about three acres. Not so much, but still possessed of two active craters from which mud and stones of iron pyrites were expelled. The surface of the island was not very hard, so the party was forced to walk gently to keep from breaking through the crust. Hlvinlz completed their investigations, the officials departed. A few days later, when fhey sought to return, their island e | was gone. That was not so unusual and | would have evoked little comment, but | 1ast Winter it came back again, it did not tarry, disappearing almost at | once as spectators watched. Profits in Berries. ASPBERRIES have proven them- selves a valuable source of income | to growers in the South, who have sfill found the demand too great for their production, Yields up to $500 an acre are reported by growers around Richmond, Asheville, Chattanooga and other places. One man engaged in the Taising of the luscious berries believes in' keeping his quality high and sells to merchants in Richmond at 20 cents a pint. Each day he comes around with a fresh sup- ly and replaces free all which have not - n md um thew day before an‘d takes e older rries a canning factory, ‘where their loss of freshness is of no consequence.