The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-22
THE DOGS ExALTATION.
Quotations Showing That He Was in For
mer Times Much Despised.

mer Times Much Despised.
A correspondent of Boston paper
has given much study to the subject of
the dog, and discusses thus learnedly
on that much petted animal: The fash
ion of parading the dog belongs to the
world of to-day. It is supposedly an
English fashion, therefore to be imita-
ted. But how different in England!
In vast domains where grooms and
lackeys look after them they are adj
mitted to the masters hearth on occa-
sions and attend him out OF doors.
But one must 60 out of doors to see
the dogs as we'll as the horses. Ami
mails do not live on equal terms in Lon
don with men or women. In what
well-bred London house does a bull
dog live with a family? With this it
is like many other foreign fashions
which we endeavor to initiate, but only
in part, without regard to the condi-
ton, circumstance, or social bearing
of the case. A house that one has to
enter by way of dog is not an agree
able one. He is not wholly odorless
in a room. This is not his fault, but it
is reason why he should not be thrust
upon ones society. 1t is the attitude
and altitude given him by man
to (which 1 object: ergo, it is man
that offends me-man who is dog
bitten. l confess l share something of
the Jewish repugnance to the dog
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his natural element and made to play
so important a part alongside of man.
But considered only in the light OF
good breeding. is it not a serious Of
Tense to this when the dog is permitted
social position which nature never
designed him for? allude to persons
so blinded by their dog-love that they
hesitate not to call at friends house
in company with the animal, and hest
tate not TO walk him into another's
drawing room. Could want of con-
sideration and ill-breeding go beyond
this? In our Boston Athenaum, among
the printed rules framed and hanging
on the wall, is one to the effect that
lO Jugs utS dllO"Cu AHoluC eAO IL
brary." Yet day after day visitors
enter here with all sorts of dog pets,
from the huge mastif to the terrier!
1t is curious to observe how directly
derogatory to the dog are the teach
ings of the Old and New Testaments,
therefore it is comfortable to reflect if
one does not share the worship given
by man to the dog that at least the
sympathy of Holy Writ is with him.
For example: By the Jewish law we
know the dog was declared unclean
and was very much despised. The
most offensive expression they could
use was to compare man to a dead
dog. Christ excludes dogs, sorcerers
and idolators from the kingdom of
Heaven. How about the idolatry of a
dog? The name was sometimes put
for one who had lost all modesty. st.
Paul calls the false apostles dogs. "Be-
ware of dogs" as thy servant dogP"
my darling from the power of the
dog" ''Ye shall cast it to the dogs"
Not bring price of dog into the
house" 1.-The dog shall eat Jezebel."
For dogs have composed me-" And
one might multiply texts of this sort
end nowhere find in the Bible any
thing different to Offset this denuncia-
ton of the dog. Shylock, being jew,
made use of the dog to express his ha-
tired of his enemies, but throughout
Shakespeare we find the dog employed
to express contempt of persons, such
as:
"Blasphemous. uncharitable dog"
''But you'll lie like dogs"
mo more pity in him than dog"
But that sad dog that brings me
food"
Stay, dog, for thou shalt hear me-"
"a plague upon him, dog"
"Hes u very dog to the common
atty"
Away, inhuman dog"
"You false Danish dogs"
"a semblance that very dogs dis
dained.'
"Dog-hearted daughters"
But enough Of quotations in which,
nevertheless, Itake some comfort, find
ing that when friends fout me with
their dogs l have Holy Writ and
Shakespeare 10 stay by me.