| Show Monk Chases Longworth Dinner Guests It I a IF I COL ROOSEVELT is having anymore any-more thrilling adventures In Africa than a number of distinguished persons per-sons had In the dining room of his daughter Mrs Nicholas Longworth In Washington they think he owes It to his family to come homo at once According to the tidings brought to tho front by the society reporters there was a monkey hunt at tho Long worths that left tho company duly Impressed Im-pressed with the terrors of tho junglo It appears that Representative and Mrs Longworth were giving n dinner in honor of Mr and Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt of Now York Along toward tho close of tho dinner the talk drifted drift-ed to animals and Mrs Longworth described de-scribed two pet monkeys she recently acquired The guests expressed a desire to see tho animals and Mrs Longworth had the cage carried Into tho dining room In some way tho door of tho cage became unfastened and one of tho monkeys escaped It leaped to tho center of the table and turning a handspring climbed to the chandelier where It hung by its tall nnd chat tered at tho company Tho womoa 1 shrieked and scrambled to their chairS while tho men fell over each other In trying to evolve manures of protection protec-tion and at tho samo tlmo capture the I beast The monkey eluded tho bravo hunters hunt-ers with ease It sprang from tha chandelier to tho sideboard ran I around tho room three or lour times while tho women and some of tho men wont rapidly out of tho nearest doors Then It vaulted Into the plattt rail whoro It did a few stunts to tho damage of much bricabrac Finally Intrenched Itself behind a Jardiniere whoro eventually It was captured When tho monkey was restored t < u Its cago and quiet had settled down over tho dinner once moro Mrs Bourka Cockran who Is visiting Oen and Mrs Clarence Edwards expressed tho opinion opin-ion that there was something wrong with the construction of tho nest provided ° pro-vided for Mrs Longworths pots She had been In the Philippines and sho thought sho know something about tho building of homollko monkey nests Cotton and soft grass were produced and Mrs Cochran proceeded pro-ceeded to renrrangO the monkeys home I Tho boasts did not appreciate her efforts ef-forts however and one of them bit her thumb A physician examined Unwound Un-wound and said there would bo no dangerous consequences |
