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Show MISS SUSAN GLASPELL'S DOG Voila the Original of the Puppies In Her Story The Vlslonlng. Miss Pusan Glahpell, the author, has a dog, which fact Is of more Importance Impor-tance than might at first appear. For Boh in: Utn beaut, that Inspired the c reintroduced re-introduced two frolicsome puppies named Pourquol and .Vest -re-pas. And there are no two more real characters In the whole book than Why and Ain't It, to uho their names In Kuglish form. It was Miss Claspell's own dog, a Bohemian beast, that Inspired the ere utlon of The Vlslonlng twin puppy clowns. The real dog also has a French name, Volln. When Its owner bought it, over In Paris, she wanttd nt first to name It Haspall, both In memory mem-ory of the boulevard on which she lived and na a sympathetic cognomen for a sensitive souled Parisian dog Hut her family objected. They could not see their way clear to shouting "Come fiaspall! Itnspnll! Haspall!" Si Miss (ilaspell compromised on Voila. Voila has vagaries. It Is a wan derer. It Is a coolie, and a coolie, li evidently thinks, ought to be afield Whenever It feels) that way, awnj Voila goes. Fortunately It wears n collar with Miss (ilnspell's tin me nm address. Phe has come to think nothing noth-ing of such n phone message as this: "Hello! In dts Miss (ilaspell! Veil, dls Is tier bartender bid linns Hum melratiHcn's saloon. No, no, valt! 1 didn't got der w rong phone number. 1 cboost vant to say I got here your fog. VIII you come for him?" Then the author of The Vlslonlng has to drop chapter plans and seek out Ilerr Ilummelransen's place with eorrow and a dollar. Hut were It not so there might never have been a N'est-ee-pas and a Pourquol. |