Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1912 — Animals Drunk at Feast [ARTICLE]

Animals Drunk at Feast

There Were Frogs and Lizards and Ducks at This Bociety Dinner. San Francisco. —The “animal dinner” given by Mrs. Andrew Welch, at the Fairmount Hotel Friday night, has created a stir in the highest society circles. Mrs. Welch’s dinner table represented a scene in a jungle. Figures of Hons and tigers, giraffes and elephants peered from miniature thickets, but It was the introduction of living creatures Into the picture that furnished an element of eccentricity. Ducks, parrots, frogs, lizards, canary birds and crabs kept strange company with the lay figures of the beasts of the lunele. The commotion of the seating of the guests aroused two parrots, and one began to cheer vociferously, while the second, which was of the exaggerated profane type, consigned one to perdition in its shrieking. .... ... .... ..... , - . Frogs hopped from the grass-covered table Into the laps of the guests and were received with shrieks. The climax was reached when a wag suggested that the “sportihess” of the parrots be tested by giving them bread

soaked In champagne. One became noisy and vociferous and changed his mild conversational tone to wildly declamatory comments: “Have a good time! Have a good time, but be sure to come home by 3!” and one that had been swearing all evening fell asleep.