Show TALES OF THE DAY A Parting Fling Washington Star Go way from there shouted a woman at the kitchen window Meandering Mike was half way over the fence but had paused to parley with the dog that snapped his jaws and growled and jumped at him from the other side Did you say Go way from here he taculred Yes And I meant just that Madame the Invitation Is wholly superfluous su-perfluous I was gOin anyhow I kin size up a situation ez quick ez anybody an I aint golnler trow meself on de hospitalities of m famly dat dont feed delr dog no bettern you do Saved liy n Lioness St Louis GlobeDemccrat Bowser one of the bg lionesses in Mme Pian kas family at the Ninth and Arch street museum saved her pretty mistress from a horrible death last night and Splttlte another lioness Is this morning sore and aohins from a severe drubbing A feature fea-ture of Mme Piankas performance Is an exciting lion chase in which She Is pursued pur-sued around the cage by Spitfire a whom she fires blank cartridges during her rapid flight Mme Pianka usually reaches the door a second In advance of her savage pursuer Yesterday she stumbled and fell In an Instant Spitfire Spit-fire who Is a vicious and murderous brute saw the opportunity she has Jonp been waiting and with a deadly l snarl she pounced upon the prostrated woman The startled attendants sprang for the Iron rods but before they could have reached the weapons it would have been all over for plucky Mme Pianka had It not been for the promptness of Bowser who with a scream that was heard blocks away leaped full at Spitfire striking strik-ing her full on the shoulder and sending her rolling in the sawdust The next moment Bowser and Spitfire wore locked In fierce combat and Mme Pianka had gained her feet just in time to teat back that treacherous old murderer mur-derer Nero who was about to take a har < l in the game o Then she turned her attention to Spitfire and administered to that spiteful animal a thrashing which will live long In her memory During the conflict the baby lions who are allowed al-lowed to run at large on the nlatform caught the soint of the fray and Ditched Into each other like thoroughbreds One of them lost a portion of Its ear In the I I fight Bob the monster lion who bit off a trainers arm In Canada last week was added to the family today and a patched I battlo for between him and Nero is looked |