Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1914 — ALL EYES ON THE PUPPY [ARTICLE]

ALL EYES ON THE PUPPY

Baby Decidedly Second Choice in the Attentions of Crowd of Men on the Street Car. A man will pass a dozen baby carriages in the street without so much as a glance at the little faces under the hoods, but if a stray puppy waddles along, indulging in the leading puppy, sport of trying to make its back legs go faster than its front ones, he acts differently. Seldom is he so busy that he can’t bestow a pat on its head, and if he. has the time, as likely as not he will stoop and ask the puppy how he is feeling. The other day a woman was seen to enter a street car with a small Boston terrier under her arm. The car was packed, but she might have had any one of a half dozen seats. The men about her forgot their newspapers, and the puppy claimed every eye. An elderly man standing in front of her chucked the puppy under the chin and addressed him familiarly as Mike. Mike opened his mouth and displayed unmistakable signs of a desire to play with the elderly man’s finger, and the elderly man was so obliging that when he hurriedly left the car he was heard to say that he had gone two streets beyond his stop. It is probable that he could not have told whether Mike’s guardian wore a sunbonnet or the latest hat, nor could the other men who watched him play with the puppy. It is certain, however, that a blue-eyed baby across the aisle gurgled in vain, for not a masculine glance was directed toward it.