The Red Cloud chief., 1889-06-21
THE DOGS ExALTATioN.

THE Dogs ExALTATioN.
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A correspondent Of . Boston paper
has given much study to tie subject Of
the dog, and discusses thus learnedly
on that much petted animal: The fash
ion OF parading tho dog belongs to tbs
world Ut to-day. It Is supposedly IA
English fashion. therefore to be imits-
ted. But how different In England!
In vast domains where grooms and
lackeys look after them they are sd-
mitted to the masters hearth on 0cca-
si0ns 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 . bull
dog live with q family? With this it
is like many other foreign fashions
which We endeav0r 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 Q room. This is not his fault. but it
IL q reason why he should not be thrust
upon ones society. 1t is the attitude
and altitude given him By man
to (which l object: ergo. it 10 man
that Offends me-man who IL dog
bitten. l confess l share something oil
the Jewish repugnance to the dog
when / see him lifted 50 entirely out OF
his natural element and made 70 play
so important a part alongside Of man.
But considered only in the light Of
good breeding. is it not . serious Of.
Tense to this when the dog is permitted
social position which nature never
designed him for: / allude to persons
90 blinded by their dog-love that they
hesitate not to call at q friends house
in company with the animal. and hesi-
tate not to walk him into another's
drawing-room. Could want Of con-
and ill-breeding 60 beyond
In our Boston Athen9um. among
the printed rules framed and hanging
the wall. is one to the effect that
mo dogs are allowed inside the Ii
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
to the dog are the teach
ings Of the Old and New Testaments,
it is comfortable to reflect l.
one does not share the worship giver
BY man to the dog that at least TIT
sympathy of Holy Writ is with him
For example,: BY the Jewish law W
know the dog was declared uncleaI
and was very much despised. The
most offensive expression they cOulG
use was to compare a man to q dead
log. Christ excludes dogs. ~sorcerers
md idOlators from the kingdom OF
Heaven. How about the idslatry of q
log? The name was sometimes put
or n who had lost all mOdesty. St
Paul calls the false apostles dogs. "Be
ware Of dogs" lis thy servant a dog?"
My darling from the power Of the
I'VE shall cast it to the dogs"
Not bring price Of a dog into the
1.-The dog shall eat Jezebel."
For dogs have composed me-" And
me might multiply texts of this sort
Ind nowhere find in the Bible any
hing different to Offset this denuncia-
ion of the dog. Shylock, being q Jew.
made use OF the dog to express his ha-
red of his enemies. but throughout
shakespeare we find the dog employed
o express contempt of persons, such
s.:
''Blasphemous. uncharitable dog"
but you'll lie like dogs"
mo more pity in him than a dog"
''But that sad dog that brings me
Stay. dog. for thou shalt hear me-"
"A plague upon him, dogr
''He's a very dog to the common
/
away. inhuman dog"
''YOu false Danish dogs"
"A semblance that very dogs dis
aimed"
'.Dog-hearted daughters"
But enough Of quotations in which. I
evertheless. Itake some comfort. find
,g that when friends iiOut me with I
heir dogs 1 have Holy Writ and I
to stay by me.
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