It required several months for her
to become accustomed to the use of
tobacco, but now she takes great com
fort in an old-fashioned clay pipe. She
and her family resided in Kentucky
during the Civil war, and she has al
ways been an ardent Unionist. Two
of her sons, James and John, enlisted
and served with credit: Her memory
is keen and she is fond of recalling
the incidents of the pioneer era.
NOW LOOK WHAT SHE'S GOT
New York Society Women Are Carry
ing Wooden Dogs Instead of Pug
or Be-Curled Poodle.
,New York.-If you are a woman of
fashion, given to the fads of the mo
ment, the next time you appear on the
avenue in your gladdest raiment you
will wear under your left arm, pressed
closely to your heart, a grass-green,
wooden dog, with tail rampant.
The arrogant pug and be-curled
poodle, the pedigreed "Pom" and bat
eared bull, until now the companions
of woman's walks and drives, must
hang diminished heads. A pup whose
form betrays no racial peculiarities,
whose ancestral line is a hopeless
blur of mesalliances-a mut carved
out of unresponsive wood-has come
to be "mamma's darling,' 'to be
hugged and dandled till his painted
skin wears off and makes mamma's
coat look like Irish sealskin.
The green dog, like predecessors in
the world of pets, is an importation.
He has traveled to America in so
The Wooden Dog.
many trunks of the returning society
belles that the customs inspectors are
getting used to him. The green dog
thus far has succeeded in defying the
tariff. He is a nativO of Brussels,
where he adorned the lM-fated exposi
tion. In the Old Town Tavern, known
for its cooking, Le Chien Vert stood.
His eyeballs blazed at intervals.
