Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1910 — PARROT MISTAKEN FOR MAN [ARTICLE]

PARROT MISTAKEN FOR MAN

Interrupts Young Woman’s Bath and Thon Human Pat Rushes lit, Causing Consternation. Philadelphia.—Pat is a parrot owned by Mr. and Mrs. William' Harrington. The other afternoon, noticing that the door of his cage was unfastened, Pat made for the window and perched on the sill of an adjoining bathroom window. —-— : —-4 Inside there was much splashing l and feminine laughter. Nora, the maid, was giving her young mistress a bath. Not finding the soap in its place, she called to her husband, whose name happened to be Pat: “Fetch the soap, Pat, and be quick about it” The parrot, hearing his name, shrieked: “Who wants Pat?” Hearing the sound from the outside, both women screamed and swooned, thinking some one was endeavoring to enter by the fire escape. The man Pat, hearing the commotion, dashed into the bathroom ahd made matters worse, especially for [the young woman, by breaking Into the room, 11 —• Eighty-Five Per Cent. Have Hookworm Washington.—Elghty-flve per cent, of the inhabitants of American Samoa are suffering from the hookworm disease, according to the report of Capt. F. Parker, governor. This means that about 6,700 natives have the malady. /