Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-11-07
THE FASHION IN DOGS.
CANNES That Go Ont Of Style Like Inst
Years BOnnets.

From the Philadelphia Times.
You know there are fashions In dogs. as in
everything else.' said dealer in dogs to a re-
porter the other day. "A lady who pretends to
follow the fashion would no more be seen on
the street leading last years dog than she
would wear two-year-oid bonnet or an old
style dress. 1t would be a loss of prestige to
her that would be very damaging to her standing
as one OF fashions vOtaries. Like other fash
Ions, too, that Of dogs is subject to many
changes. Not to 60 back too far, we will begin
with the black and tan. While .urr lasted they
were very popular, put they have as a breed
gone out of date. In England the black and
tan is good deal larger dog than he is in
America. There he is a ratter. but in this
country a pet dog must. AS a rule. be small and
the smaller the better for fashions purpose
While in England common weight for this
variety is 10 pounds. they have been bred here SO
small that, when two years old, they only weighed
"a pounds. Such an animal would be worth
500. The Skye terrier superseded the black
and tan. and held his own tor awhile only to
give way to the Yorkshire. which, by the way
is nothing more or less than a smaller edition of
the Skye. procured by breeding from the
smallest Obtainable specimens OF the Skye
until very small animal was produced, looking
like the Skye in everything but size. The sys-
TEN OF breeding dogs down SO much below the
liable to disease of q scrofuous nature. Those
l have named are all dogs OF the past as much
as the poodle or Spitz. They are dogs that have
had their day. and must now give way to those
whose day is to come"
''What is the coming dog, and where is he
coming from?"
THE coming dog is the fox terrier To be
perfect he must have small body, white in
color black head and small white triangle
on the forehead. There are not many of them
ny for vAf hp,fi ic NOD ,.,.,I
viii soon be cast aside for his more sprightly
successor Mrs. Smith already has one; as
soon as Mrs. Jones sees it she must have one
too; and then it will not be long before Mrs
Brown and Mrs Robinson will have fox terriers
too. BY that time there will be another STYLE in
vogue. Ofcourse. he will come from abroad
where all hlgh-bred dogs are born or are sup
posed to be. Buta great many that are bought
under the impression that they are late impor-
tatlOns have never been out of the city, and it
Is very likely that the aristOcratc favOrite who
after ne has been in a Walnut street mansion
two weeks will eat nothing more common than
custards, has been brought up on scrapple
Many ladies go to the American steamship
Wharves to buy dogs from men who have lust
arrived with them from Europe Some cute
customer has become aware OF this and buys
common dogs up town and smears dirt and
grease into their coats He stations himself
near the wharf when a steamer has arrived and
salutes' madame with:
very nne dog. Him good stock. Fetch
him over in engine ROOM He very dirty, but
look good when he's washed
Madame, knowing very little about dogs,
buys him at a pretty stiff price, under the i'm
preston that she is getting bargain Others
color common dogs to suit the demand. There
Is great deal of this kind of thing done There
is barber in this city who has pretty good
business in fixing up dogs for saIe-shearing,
dyelng and curling them in the most approved
style"
''Do all the good dogs come from abroad?"
"Oh, no. Many Of the finest specimens we
have come from alleys where there is
scarcely enough to raise them on. II you want
to follow the styles you will have to sell your
pets about once year. and sell them cheap too
Secondhand dogs are just like everything else
secondhand. No matter how good they are,
people won't pay much for Them