Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1916 — Philadelphia Woman Took Her Pet for a Ride [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Philadelphia Woman Took Her Pet for a Ride

PHILADELPHIA. —A woman rider in a Woodland avenue trolley car the other day presented about as ridiculous an appearance as possible and knew that every other person in the car was laughing at her, yet she did not

seem to c are. She got aboard With a big muff in her close up to her coat while she paid her fare. When she' sat down she appeared to be petting something in the muff. Suddenly a cat’s head appeared out of the end of the muff and In a flash the cat had leaped to the floor of the car and was heading for the large curved seat in the back. "~~’r The woman started after him, callIng, “Here, baby, come back to your mother.” The cat did not appreciate

these endearing words and after making an attempt to get out the back window, got unfler a seat, causing an unusual commotion among a crowd of women. The conductor brought up the rear of the parade, .while the motorman stopped the car and sat laughing at the performance., All the people in the front of the car were craning their necks to see what happened. With the conductor’s aid the woman finally got hold, cf her pet, admonishing the conductor in the meanwhile not to hurt her boy| while everybody roared with laughter. When the conductor told her she 4ould have to get off the car if it happened again she became defiant, and h J very wisely shut up, apparently deciding to adopt a watchful waiting P<t ic y- she finally quieted down and sat gently stroking her pet and casting tisdainful glances at the other passengers. I