Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1917 — DOBBIN HAS A DAY DREAM [ARTICLE]

DOBBIN HAS A DAY DREAM

Faithful Old Horae Will Have Regular Thrill When He Casta Off , Hie Shoes. When the automobile and the tin Lizzie shall at last have relegated the “hoss” to the limbo of things obsolete, will the noble animal degenerate and hark back to his ancestral type, or will he simply disappear like the dodo? asks “Zlm” in Cartoons magazine. It has taken a lot of time and patience to def elop Dobbin from the primitive models such as the hydracotrerium, the pachynolophus andthe . eohippus, to make him “whoa,” back and ‘'gitap” and take his meals out of a nosebag. In the process of civilization he has gradually lost hls'toes and has had to accommodate his feet to the horseshoe. Does he still dream perhaps of the delights of having toes —of sinking them down Into the green sqush of the tertiary era and feeling the cool goo trickled up between them? If so, how glad he will be some day to look down and see his Jong-forgotten toes beginning to sprout once again! His will be the thrill of the small boy on-the first warm day of spring when he can cast off his shoes and go barefoot. When the “hoss” discovers for the first time that he can again wiggle his toes, he will doubtless radiate a smile of solid comfort.