Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1910 — The Woman and the Dog. [ARTICLE]

The Woman and the Dog.

A crowd gathered at 10th and Barton strees to watch a handsome fox terrier that was running about, nose in air. White froth was running from the dog’s mouth. “He’s mad!” yelled a fat man. The fox terrier stood in the center of the group, with wide-open eyes, either too mad or too frightened to move. At this juncture, the policeman arrived. A dozen voices began to tell him that the dog was mad; that it must be killed; that it had been snapping at the children; that it began to froth when it passed a pool of water, and how best to shoot. A tall, quiet-looking woman pushed through the crowd and started toward the dog. A dozen men yelled at her, two or three men grabbed at her. She picked the dog up and started out of the crowd. The policeman stepped her with: “Madam, that dog is mad. He must be shot. Look at the foam coming out of his mouth.” “Foam,” she said contemptuously. “That’s a cream puff he was eating.”St. Ldtiia Post-Dispatch.