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done so much day and night prowling around the White House grounds 
looking for easy prey that Mr. Coolidge decided to give him away. 
Today Blackie is in new surroundings at the home of a White House 
secret service man on the outskirts of Washington. 
The cat is the third White House pet to fail to measure up to official 
requirements. 
Tige, a feline of an unusually dissolute nature, would not stay at home 
and has been given up as a hopeless case, while Paul Pry, the airedale 
pup, became so officious that he had to be muzzled. 
Everybody’s Say-So 
From Chicago Evening Post, fune 26, 1925 
CHICAGO, June 23.—To the Editor of The Post. Sir: There is no 
motion in heaven or earth more beautiful than the flight of gulls. It is the 
perfection of motion. The spirit follows it with utter accord. There 1s 
nothing in it to disturb or agitate or discompose the onlooker. There is 
nothing of the disconcerting, staccato flight of the swallow, the spasmodic 
flickering of butterflies, the brief voyagings of bluebird and finch and 
sparrow, the awkward travel of crows, or the sinister spiraling of the 
hawks. It is all curves, significant curves, the tracing of continuous 
beauty in the air. 
The motion is so leisurely as to take the weariest spirit with it, yet 
so sure as to summon and allure into the infinite reaches of blue space: 
It is a rhythm allied to all great rhythms. As one watches the motion of 
the white wings, one is aware of all other sure and beautiful rhythms in 
the universe, the flowing of calm rivers to the sea, the cruising of clouds, 
the turning of the earth-sphere, the onsweep of the golden hours. 
It is a motion of which the eyes and the soul could never tire. It is 
reposeful, even as it is pauseless. It is continuous, yet gracefully deviat- 
ing. It is a poem written on the sky, with even cadence, yet with diversity 
of winged phrasing. No storm or rush of wind alters its dignity, its surety, 
or its grace. It is unerringly beautiful. It is the perfection of winged 
motion. Jutta CooLtey ALTRoccHI. 
hs 2 Pd ES bel Ged 
If you have any good bird news, 
send 1t in to the Editor 

