The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-20


thirty years ago, when the then Gear
presented couple OF His Royal High
ness the Prince of Wales. They made
no progress for considerable time; in
deed, until a dozen years back these
handsome dogs We're scarcely known in
England. Somehow people then began
to notice them, they We're found to be
easily obtained, and in due course they
reached that position as fashionable
dogs" which they now maintain,
though their life is changed, for they
they are fancy article, while in Rus
STA they are kept and bred for purposes
Of sport. Doubtless they are par excel
lence 1.-THE fashion" now, and their
beauty and grace and as a rule, kindly
disposition, WILL no doubt, enable them
to sustain their place in society until
some other big dog, bearing similar ere
dentials, in introduced, The Borzoi is
essentially an autocrat; he was discov-
cred in greatest perfection in the ken
nels of the Russian emperor whence he
has come to be the favorite of the
Princess of Wales and other leaders of
society; nor is this popularity to be al
lowed to decline. 1t is likely a show Of
Borzoi will shortly take place, at which
the awards are to be made by the
Duchess of Newcastle. The appear
ance of Her Grace in the judging-ring
Will be hailed with delight by the nu-
merous admirers of the Russian hound,
who is fashionable on account of his
appearance, and not because he is q
medium of commercial enterprise. To
go to extremes in the matter of size and
we reach the Japanese spaniel, who,
too, is prevailing mode" in doghesh,
| Quaint and affectionate, he is the ac-
cepted of royalty, and finds a filter
place in the drawing rooms and bou-
doris of wealthy DANES than up the
sleeves" of the Japanese mobiles. The
latter are said to be the kennels of
the little dogs in their native country,
and hence the more diminutive the Jap
dog the better. Many, too, are found in
| OF about the native temples, whence
| the filthy lucre of the "barbarians" is
the means Of their change of surround
! ings. We do not know that these Jap
! anese dogs are more insinuating in
their affection than our Blenheims and
other English toy spaniels but there is
no doubt the former have done great
deal to put the noses of the latter out
of point. Fashion" has done it all, for
the foreigners are not so handsome as
the brighter-colored and more variega-
| ed-hued of our British varieties
1t has been said that we are isolated
in our ideas and bigoted in our love for
home products. This can hardly be
| true, for we are overrun with foreign
walters, foreign matches, while made
in Germany" is a legend which meets
us at every turn. Already have we
said that two varieties of foreign dogs
are the most fashionable of the canine
race, and not far behind them comes
another eastern production in the form
of the Chow Chow-which really means
something to eat-that of China He
! gives himself airs now that we have
adopted him, and is no longer the
crawling, sneaking creature of the Pc
king and Canton ''shambles." Without
the aid of a papillote he carries bette,
curl in his tail, and has brighter color
in his color, and a fiuffier coat here
than there. He takes as kindly to dos
biscuits and old English Cor New Yea
land) beef as his ancestors did to rice
and other vegetables. The Chow is
something of mystery for, withou
for a moment doubling his present pc.
s;tion in society," we cannot tell how hi
has been introduced and accepted
There is nothing loving about him, lie i,
rather quarrelsome, and his creates
admirers cannot call him beautiful. Ht
is just fad, and, although he has hat
! a show of his oWn-a position which
neither the Borzoi nor the Jap has ye
attained-we fancy he will not last. ant
4 ia the end will be forgotten or neglect
ed, as is the Great Dane when com
pared with his position a few years ago
Still another little foreigner appears
he of the crooked legs, long body anC
velvety skin, the dachshund by name,
Continental sporting dog. reveloped un
der British rule into fancy or com
panionable creature. His surrounding
have been royal and aristocratic, ant
so have those of the Pomerian or Spit
dog-"made in Germany" but devel
oped here-once white, snappy and i'll
natured, now black, chocolate ant
faWn, amiable and somewhat diminu
tive. No change in the fashion il
quadrupeds is more marked than il
this variety. Not long ago white speci
mems We're only to be found, now black
are the rage, and on canvas at Burling
ton House last year the Princess Hen
ry of Pless appeared fondling tin,
black Pomeranian, an admirable paint
ing by Reginald Arthur. It must no
be forgotten that a little earlier one u
the pictures of the year was that b.
Luke Fildes of our Princess Of Wales
in whose arms reclined charming jap
anese spaniel. No wonder, then, tha
these varieties are the height of fash
ion" The Belgian schipperke enjoys
certain amount of popularity, but is no
actually fashionable, probably becaus
his origin is plebeian, and of his inabili
ty to grow out of the surroundings @
his birth on the Dutch canal-boat:
His amputated tail is, to say the laas
not quite chic. Black pugs have durir.
: the last decade become pretty nume1
. Gus, and, care having been taliea j
, their production, in appearance the
are more nearly approaching thu ord
: nary fawn pug in shape and excellence
, both varieties are common, but no. II
: de steele.
1 Time was when we had to be content
, ed with our terriers and toy spaniels 4
[ ordinary pets and companions, but tn
: foreign dog has put the native articl
almost out of court. Even the 70,
1 Scottish, Yorkshire and Skye terrier