Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1910 — COW IN A PARLOR. [ARTICLE]

COW IN A PARLOR.

It Toole Possession ot the Hons* When the Family Was Away. The placidity of the cow has been * proverb for all time. That she is endowed with a good bump of th* "curiosity that killed a cat’* a suburbanite learned to his sorrow one day this summer. Mr. Blank lives in the east end with his family of wife and five children, the Louisville Times says. They have a cow that is a pet, having been raised from babyhood and now furnishing all the lacteal fluid and hy-products used by the family. Not so long since, after Blank had come in town for the day, Mrs. Blank took the children and went for a day’s outing to a neighboring suburb, leaving the house (supposedly) carefully closed and the cow in her stable. But missing familiar forms and the sounds of domestic activity, she grew lonesome and managed to escape the inclosure and came into thO yard and proceeded to Investigate. She climbed the steps to the back porch, consumed three loaves of bread left by the baker's boy. She succeeded in getting the kitchen door open, where she devoured all but the granlteware part of a threepound crock of butter. Her appetite still unappeased, she also ate the fancy paper off the shelves, and In so doing pulled down all the tinware and scattered it about the floor. She could not work the combination on the. ioe-box, so moved on through the dining room Into th* fitting room. Mr. Blank had the day before purchased four new shirts at (1.6(1 each, and these had been sent home and were left in a bundle on the couch. She “considered" these, at* all but a few fragments, and went on her way. She wrecked chairs, and even a bed, and upset the contents of tables by pulling at and eating th* covers.

When the family came back late that evening an affectionate "moo” of welcome greeted them from the cow, her head thrust through the parlor window. Mr. Blank said it took ten men and a derrick to get the cow out of the houae, and the cost of repairing damages would purchase enough milk and butter for the family for a year, “sans care.” There’s a cow for sale; the’s no longer a big bit In the family. __ _ People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his stateMY*V tell hfm muck.