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Show QUENTIN HAS FUN WITH N k SNAKES IN WHITE HOUSE gg WASHINGTON. Quentln Roosevelt caused chlllM to chase up and down the splnnl columns of Attorney donora1 Uonnpurto, Ropresuntntlvo Hepburn, and cx-KoprownJatlvu Lnc-oy, Lnc-oy, of Iowa, the other day wnen ho appeared ap-peared In the president's office, with two llvo snnkeH colled about him. Quentln Is Aomowhat Impetuous, especially es-pecially when on roller skates, and ho skated Into the office of his father, who was having n conference with Attorney At-torney General Honaparto. As Quentln Quen-tln approached, tho snakes hlBBcd and tho attorney general slde-Btepped with great agility. Prosldont Roosevelt suggested to Quentln thnt ho disappear. disap-pear. Quentln hastened into tho cabinet cab-inet room where Representative, Hop-burn Hop-burn and Mr. Lacoy wore watting to see the president. Thoy thought tho snakes wero harmless wooden affairs and began to admire them. Then the larger snnko began to wrlgglo and wrnp itself around the arm of Quentln Quen-tln and the distinguished Iownns In their terror made frantic efforts to wnlk up the walls. Regaining their composure It occurred oc-curred to them thnt Quentln might be In danger, nnd thnt they should rush to tho rescuo, especially whon they I . 'Til saw tho largor snake, three feot long, gliding up tho sleeve of tho president's presi-dent's son. In tho most gingerly manner man-ner they took hold of the collar of tho boy's coat and gently removed tho garment, taking care to keep out of range of the snake. Disdaining rescue, Quentln seized his coat, and whllo ho toyed with tho squirming reptiles skated outside, where n party of women visitors wero thrown Into hysterics hys-terics nt. sight of the snakes. Quontlii brought three snakes from Oyster liny with him. He found thnt ho could not tnko care of them properly prop-erly and turned them over to nn animal ani-mal fancier. Hut Quentln got lone-sonio lone-sonio without his snakes, nnd tho fancier fan-cier loaned him a king snake and a smaller rciiiU". Q;ient1n wont to the oxecntlvo offices to show his now trtasjftn to his fnthor, who observod that tho king snnko was about to mnko n meal of the little one, nnd warned his son to be careful to pro-vent pro-vent such a calamity. Quentln finally loft the White Houbo to tho great Joy of everybody there. His father remarked to a caller that Quentln's tnsto was Inherited, for ho not only liked snakes, but had scotched scotch-ed a fow In his time. |
