, 1885-09-29
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What Fashion ~Demands-At a Seaside
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What Fashion Demands-At a seaside
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OF late years the tendency of certain
American women is to have pets with
four legs and a tail. Heretofore they
have been contented with pets with two
legs. There are fashions in dogs pre-
cisely as there are in ribbons. There
was a time when no real lady could
walk broadway without the at
tendance o n shapely greyhound.
The tanker his shape, the long, r
and simmer his legs. the more
pointed his nose, the more dropping his
tail, the better. Then came n demand
for ing Charles spaniels, and after
that a species Of pug, a sort of Scotch
terrier, whose eyes were concealed by
profuse bangs, and whose tail resembled
n gray radish. with no hair TO speak of,
but with mar gelous felicity Of wiggle-
waggle Then the noble mastiff doomed
up, and then the superb Newfoundland,
big-headed, %long-eared, intelligent eyed,
neatly parted black. haired. with a curly
weep of a bushy tail. This year the
nasty little skye and piazza. spelling
poodles, and what we used to call when
children woolly dogs, are all the go.
Come with me to the piazza Of n huge
leaside hotel. Ladies' elegantly cos
.umed, the wives and children Of hard
working, necessarily toiling, struggling
men in the city, sitting gloved and
shaded with n. parasol upon the YER
anda, doing what! Heading the last
novel, studying Gods Holy Word,
examining on scientific subjects, eX-
ploring a wide oxpanse of horizon by
far distant lights, parti-colored and eX
quisite IN colori Dh, no. Patting
curly-headed dog, twisting the prett
hair upon its delicate skin, toying with
his tail, smoothing down his ears, feel
ing of his little nose to see If it is cold
or wondering whether Beauty wouldn /
better have his saddle cloth, giving
more time, attention, thought and care
to the little brute than they would to n
dozen children, if the Lord had favored
them in that direction.
Some hotel proprietors, considerate Of
the feelings of their guests, noticing the
disfavor with which certain kinds of
careless, unframed dogs are regarded,
had sense enough early in the season to
say no dogs, y an edict which all sensi-
Die men respected and compelled their
families as well to respect. Such was
the case at Long Branch, where one
proprietor peremptorily declined to al
low a dog as big rs his fist to come in,
because the neXt mans fist might be
twice as large as his and he insisting
upon n dog twice as large as its prede-
cessor would simply open the way to a
dog as large as somebody else's inst, and
who could tell where the income would
end The proprietor of another hotel
did the same thing and compelled all
dogs to keep away from his premises on
peril of shotgun and trap. Other hotel
proprietors were o so wise, and at
tempted to draw the line on size. They
would permit a nasty poodle to snap
and snarl and bite and indulge in all
manner of petty uncleanlinesses, which,
of themselves, are enough to disgust
two legs with four legs under any cir
cumstances, but n self respecting well
trained dog of pedigree, of repute, of n
certain size and n certain weight was
tabooed, no matter how glorious his
bearing, how cleanly his habits, how
noble his general character.
OF course, this made trouble. Fob
Ingersoll, as you know, left one hotel
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and went to ong Beach, where, SO long
IS a dog is small, no matter what his
habits. he is not tabooed. Other people
have left Long Peach because their
dogs, no matter how superior in birth
and breeding, no matter how careful
and clearly in habit, being beyond the
size prohibited by the intelligent pro-
prietors, were made to feel that they
were not welcome.