Show monk ch chases ases longa longworth orth dinner guest S F COL ROOSEVELT is having any JP more thrilling adventures in africa than a number of distinguished persons had in the dining room oom of his daughter mrs nicholas longworth in washington they think he owes it to his family to come home at once Ap according cording to the tidings brought to the front by the society reporters there was a monkey hunt bunt at the long that left the company duly impressed with the terrors of the jungle it appears that representative and mrs longworth were giving a dinner in honor of mr and mrs cornelius vanderbilt of now new york along toward the close of the dinner the talk drifted to animals and mrs longworth described two pet monkeys she recently acquired the guests expressed a deedre to see the animals and mrs longworth had the cage carried into the dining room in some way the door of bf the cage became unfastened and one of the monkeys escaped it leaped to the center of the table and curnin turning a handspring climbed to the chandelier where it hung by its tall tail and chat at the company the women shrieked and scrambled to their chairs while the men fell over each other in trying to ao evolve masur lasures es of protection and at the same time capture the beast the monkey eluded the bravo brave hunters with ease it sprang from the chandelier to the sideboard ran around the room three or four times while the women and some of the men went rapidly out of the nearest doors then it vaulted into the plate rail where it did a few stunts to the dar damage ilage of much bric a brac finally it In trenched itself behind a where eventually it was captured when the monkey was restored to its cage and quiet had settled down over the dinner once more mrs bourke cockran who Is visiting gen and mrs mra clarence edwards expressed the opinion that there was something wrong with the construction of the nest provided tor for mrs longworthy Long pets she had been in the philippines and she thought she knew something about the building of homelike monkey nests cotton and soft grass were produced and mrs cockran proceeded to rearrange the mon monkeys keyo home the beasts did not appreciate her efforts however and one of them bit her thumb A physician examined the wound and said there would be no dangerous consequences |