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Show SHE PREFERRED THE PEARLS .M .... Perhaps That Was Reason for Girl's Aversion to Pets.. "No, I don't want this griffon. You may send It back," said tho girl graduate. grad-uate. Her father patted the priceless dog's rough hoo.d. "nut why?" lio stammered. stam-mered. "Keoplng pets Is too brutal," Bho replied'. re-plied'. "I can't soe how a person ot delicacy can keep pets. It is as bad as living In n comotory vault. You get a dog. Its puppyhood Is charming. But It maturos; It grows old; la a few years, dooroplt. w-'v-faoed, It dies. Then you get mm' dog and wutcli It also swiftly grow old and die. 'With cnts it Is the same. With birds it is the same. "Aunt Jano has kept cat and dog and bird pots all her llfo, nnd her life has beon one long succession of little pot funerals. Two or threo tliiies oTmuuin uvur since l il.ill KiM'tin' bcr wo have found hor In tears ovor the corpse of a French bull or over the freh rrv vf a lovo bird, or over V tho grotosquo but ruvereut burial of an Angora cat No pets' for me. I doslro to be surrounded with objects thnt mako me forget old ago, decrepitude decrep-itude and doath. You may oxchango the griffon, If you like, pupa, for a string ot small but pot feet pearls." |