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Show DOMESTIC PET3 IN TOWN LIFE A capitalist living in nnotbor town announced n fow years ngo that ho would lay out n resldeneo street with special restrictions ngalnst keeping domestic pets. Ho proposed to insert n clnuso In each deed, fi r-bidding r-bidding tho keeping of dogs nnd hens. While ho would not exclude cats Irrevocably, yet ho proposed to sell only to persons who during their I occupancy would vcrbnlly ngreo not to keep them. Ho believed that many peoplo would be nttracted to , his street. , Many persons think that dogs i should bo kept only on farms. They , nro Irritated by tho digging up of gnrdens, depositing of bones over InwiiB, and tho historic tendency to bark at tho moon. They bollevo tho canine lins no place In town Ufo unless un-less tied up. They trembio at every ev-ery pup that barks, nnd telephones their neighbors to shut up tho beast I beforo they venture to call. , Hens havo long cnused neighbor-.hood neighbor-.hood quarrels. As n town grows in I slzo, they becomo Impossible nvo In the 'outskirts. Thoy nro a great help' In reducing lM"g costs, nnd ' many peoplo find egg production diverting di-verting and prolltnble. Hut It i dreadful on sensltlvo mndorn nerves, I If a rooster crows or a hen announces announc-es that an eg,; Is lnld. It will probably bo some time bo-foro bo-foro thero nro nny dogless or cnt-less cnt-less towns or oven streets. A man from tho plnco first rofcrred to tells uo that on tho proposed dogless street no houso Iiub as yet been oven started. start-ed. Apparently tho nntldoggltes nreVnot Buro enough ot tho popularity popular-ity of their attitude to invest money mon-ey on It. Many parents encourago children to needl03s fear of animals. The Bonsltlvo dog sees a cringing look In tho eye, nnd shows his teeth all tho moro ferociously. Peoplo who nro not afraid uro rarely molested. |