Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 196, 23 May 1909 — Page 6
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Pet off Washington Girl Adopts
v Strange Brood When ; Kittens Die. .
GUARDS THEM JEALOUSLY
OLD TABBY PUT' THEM CARE
. FULLY TO BED EVERY NIGHT
: AND BATHE8 THEM "CAT FASHION" FREQUENTLY - Washington. D. C, May 23. Bessie,
the pet cat of Miss Jennie Catheart, of Nd. 821 H street, . Northeast, in regarded, as the most motherly cat In
the national capital. Bessie took up
her ': home " with Miss - Catheart ' a few years ago, when the family to which
she bad belonged moved away, .
About a month ago Bessie was the
haDDy mother of five kittens. Bessie
moved her family one day over Into
the house of a neighbor, but the neigh
bor took the baby cats, and drowned
them, so poor Bessie went home heartbroken. Now, it happened that Just that day Miss Catheart had a hen that was hatching: out a brood of
chicks. ' '
It was cold, so she brought half a
dozen of the new chickens into the
house to keep them warm. Just to see what would happen, she put them in
the basket where noor Bessie bad
cuddled herself up in her grief.
The moment the chickens snuggled up against her to get warm Bessie
began to mother them, just as If they
were her own lost babies. ' She pur
red to them, and was so happy that
Miss Catheart let them stay with her, That was the beginning. She has tak
en a mother's care " of them ever
since.
There are six of the chicks, chub
by little yellow rascals that are much too frisky to stand still many minutes
at a time. Bessie still , watches over them, although they are now getting
rather big to be babies. - She will lie
very quiet and let them play all over her. picking at her great green eyes or scratching on her furry side. But if one of them peeps as If In trouble she Is awake in f. moment, ready to
help her adopted baby if she can.
Bessie Is very fond of oatmeal with
.cream and sugar,; just like folk, and
the chickens have learned to love it
too, so they all eat out of the same
plate. . "
The chickens have grown very fond of Bessie and enjoy playing with her and having her take care of them, and they seem just as well satisfied as though she was a real ben mother. They even allow her to scrub them, cat fashion, which she thinks is quite the proper thine and la always ready to do If she thinks they need a bath. They look very funny afterward with their downy fuzz standing out in little wet points where their adopted raoth- . er has licked them with her pink tongue. , Bessie's adopted children "chirp" to her, and she answers them in her own language, which they Beem to understand just as well as her own kittens could have done. When she tells them to go to bed, if they do not mind she will take them gently in her mouth, one by one, and put them in their basket. She knows how many there are, too, so no little chick can hide away in a dark corner and get time to play after the rest are in bed. They are bady spoiled babies yet. If Miss Catheart puts them in their basket without Bessie they will peep loudly until Bhe comes and tucks them pway for the night in her warm, soft
THESE THE DAYS
WHEII BIRDS
SIIG
Why a Small Bey Ptrsieted In Haarinf It Every Day. "Senator Vest was saahinc a buggy
campaign in southeast Missouri some years age said a Missouri eOHal. "Bis driver was a smell bey. who was
duly Impress id with the Importance
of his distinguished passenger.
-At each town visited by Test the boy harried his team te a convenient
livery barn and ' then raced for the
courthouse, or wherever the 'SpeakhV ' was to take place, and perched him
self with painful regularity on the front seat He tswarlably turned his eyes on the senator and teek In every
word of the speech as If his very life
depended on it.
"Finally the lad's contused conspic
uous presence among his sndttors an
noyed the senator, sad he kindly but
firmly reminded the boy that It was
not necessary for him te attend every
- 1 saabs the same speech each time
Ten save neat tt often enough to know It by rota, so test pot In your ttme In the fuusxsVlossJisT after the
team,' be ndmelshud Ms youthful
driver.
"Despite the senator's abjection, the boy was agntn in the front seat the next day and too following day. This
enraged Tost, and be thmndered:
vM "why do yon persist In always occupying that front seetf DMnt I tell
day? its as an and stale to yon as it la to me. Why tmdst on beartng it
again and agon r
want to aeo what touts going to do when yon ferglt it answered the boy. Tost caplraMad."-Ct. Louis Re-
Just Beyond the City, Con
certs Continuous 'Tis Wooing Time. BEST WARBLERS MODEST
SOMETHING ABOUT THE SONGS OF THE DIFFERENT MEMBERS OF THE FEATHER FAMILY KNOWN IN THI8 VICINITY. These are the day when the birds
who can sing are singing, and those
who can't are making noises which
must be pleasing to themselves at j
least, judging from the vociferousness with which the noises are made. In addition to the bird's song whether v it conforms to our ideas of music or not, there is a chipnote, which is conversational in character, meaning, "Look out, here comes some one," or, "Here I am with a nice fat worm," or, "Come on. let's go over into another bush." To the bird watchers the chipnote means as much as the song; it first Indicates the presence of a bird, and secondly tells what bird it is, or at least to what family it belongs. Then in addition to the chipnote and the song proper there are various notes and calls, each one meaning something to the bird, if not to us, such as the "meaou" of the catbird, in' the fllghtnotes of the goldfinch, which mark the time of his undulating flight by a musical "per-chip-1-tee. per-chip-i-tee." The robin also has a flight song. Some bird writer who has set the birds' songs to musical notations devotes a chapter In his book to "Why Birds Sing." After some arguing and quoting from various learned German sources as to whether singing is a part of the wooing, or exultation over having won, or even encouragement for the chosen lady in her arduous task of nest-making and incubation, the author comes to the sage conclusion that birds sing because they can't help it; which is a pretty satisfying conclusion to us all. Best Singers Modestly Clad. Our finest ; singers are among the more plainly colored birds, though there are many and notable exceptions to this rule. The cardinal grosbeak, the "redblrd" of our city trees,
has a rich whistle familiar to us all.
The "redblrd" Nof the northern parts
of our country, the scarlet tanager,
who sets off his brilliant red with a
pair of jet black wings and black tail,
has a more varied song than our "red-
bird,", though no richer or fuller. The song of the . rose-breasted grosbeak, whose brilliancy of plumage Mr. Dawson considers tropica1., is robin-like in character, though uttered more smoothly and deliberately. Another brilliantly-hued songster Is the Balti
more oriole in orange and black.
The warblers are mostly bright col
ored, and, while from the name of the
family one is led to expect much from
them in the way of song, their singing is not noticeable excepting to the
trained ear of the bird watcher. Some scarcely sing at all ; others, like the yellow warbler or summer yellow
bird, . have a set tune, but they are pitched high and hurried through. None of the warblers has a song comparable to that of the sparrows, wrens
or thrushes. Of the sparrows the
song of the song sparrow is probably better known, and can.be heard anywhere in the country where there are
bushes or wayside weeds. The song
commences with three mccented notes
(rarely four), then a succession of
rapidly uttered notes, though not resembling a trill. Mr. Burroughs says
the people of New England translate the song sparrow's song thus, "Maids,
maids, maids, put on your tea kettle, ettle, ettle, ettle," and Mr. Dawson
has him say, "Peace, peace, peace be
unto you, my children," but better
than either is, "Sweet, sweet; sweet,
pretty, pretty, pretty, sweet." The
vesper sparrow's sons has been much
praised. It greatly resembles that of the song - sparrow, but commences with a long, drawn-out J'he-ho," in
stead of the three accented notes of the song sparrow.. One of the most
beautiful of bird songs is that of the field sparrow, beautiful In tone and
expression. Mr. Schyler Matthews
says, "The field sparrow is nature's best exponent of the principal of the chant," and "We do not care whether he sings a tune or not. he may keep straight along on one note or not, as he chooses; we are satisfied to know that he sings with a depth of expression unsurpassed by any of nature's greatest songsters."
Songa of the Wren. All the wrens can sing and all are
modestly clad In browns and grays.
The songs of the wrens are rapidly
uttered, almost explosive, and, In the case of the house wren, of some duration. Near relatives of the wrens are
the catbird, the ; thrasher and the mockingbird. These songs have been described often, and are familiar to
many. The catbird and the thrasher can be heard at any time for the price or a street car fare to the banks of
Alum creek or the Olentangy river.
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Frank Whitney, The Great Animal Painter, in One of Bohemia's most Attractive Features
This Inscription and a horse shoe
surmount the front door of Frank
Whitney's romantic studio home which lies buried in the woods, 17 miles north of Chicago. Here for 18 years
the foremost American painter of ani
mals has lived and worked far away
from the distractions of city life. He
and his wife and their pictures form a community to themselves and although their latch string is always out they never seem to need any outside aid to perfect enjoyment.
Mr. Whitney began the painting of
animals In a carious manner. He was
brought np in Minnesota, where his
grandfather was a pioneer and early m life developed a mechanical turn of mind, probably inherited from old Ell Whitney, an ancestor, who will be remembered as having invented the cot
ton gin. '-When still quite a young
man he married and moved to Chicago
with much ambition, bat little money,
and started housekeeping in two rooms
with aa oil stove. This was all very well as far aa it went; but the stove needed oil and the couple needed food and neither was forthcoming in sufficient quantities for several months. A Penniless Lad. Young Whitney had, however, early developed an overmastering passion for animals and, penniless as he was, he could not resist the temptation to visit the race course and see the thoroughbred horeea. On one of these excursions he found himself next to . a man with a pencil and pad who was struggling hard to make a sketch of the favorite. The sketch was not a success and Whitney offered a few suggestions. -yr Tan yon draw." said the man. Whitney thought he could. At any rate, ho tried with the result that hht new made acquaintance immediate
number of sketches of the horses entered in the different races that day. A week or two later he . was engaged by a Chicago newspaper to draw for its columns. For six or seven years newspaper illustrating was Whitney's means of livelihood, but he was never satisfied to work entirely in black and white, and as soon as he could manage to, he and his wife went over to Paris, where he studied under Bourfareau for a couple of years and then, after another year in the art schools of London he returned to pursue his chosen vocation in Chicago. The success he has met with is familiar to all art lovers. Among his better known pictures being The Return of the Prize Winners." which haa been compared for strength and beauty of composition with Rosa Bonhears "Horse Fair." . This picture has been reproduced and distributed all over the world and shows a group of Clydes
dale horses returning from the show full of life and ' spirit, rearing and prancing so that the grooms have hard work to control them. His New Masterpiece. This was the first gnat Clydesdale picture ever painted in this country, but it is likely to be surpassed by a new picture Mr. Whitney Is now completing entitled The Eight by the Six. This is a presentment of Morris tc Company's Six Horse Team, the champion- six horse team of the world
shown in the midst of cutting the fig
ure eight which is one of the fancy tricks their driver pots these horses through. The preliminary pencil
sketch for the picture reproduced here
with gives some idea of the power and
beautiful lines of the picture, but. of
course, it lacks the effect which only
color can give. Some of the wonder
ed by focusing the eyes on the center pair and then opening and shutting them very rapidly. This will Impart to all the team a sense of movement and will make them appear as If they were actually coming towards one. The team is acknowledged to include the finest specimen of Clydesdale horses ever bred and has been made up of two British horses, two Canadian and two Illinois horses. It is due to land In England today and will be shown before King Edward at the horse show at Olytnpla, London, next month..' At the same time, Mr. Whitney's great picture, which those who have seen It in its unfinished state declare to he one of the greatest of all animal pictures, will be on exhibition in Chicago and probably other Important cities of the country.
Had castle, Ross-ehlre. Is said to bo
the oldest Inhabited residence in the
highlands of Scotland, bavin
built by William the Lion in 117.
Yen Aivcto some day to the fact that a bath-room Isn't a luxury only, but a necessity. When warm weather sends yon from bed sweltering In the morning yon will appreciate a bath tab with hot and cold water and the convenience that modern plumbing affords when It la fitted np by
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