The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-20

| dogs point of view, we're a trihe crude
over here in this country yet. We don't
| quite go the canine worshipping gait seen
! in the more effete. refined circles across
| the pond. For instance, we haven't any
| dogs toilet club, like that dainty, gilt-edg
! ed shop which Mrs. Nugent runs in Bond
| street, London, or the exquisite canine
hosiery conducted in Paris by the immor-
| tai Nine. Ledouble, where members of the
| biped peerage take the pet quadrupeds of
| the dog peerage to be clipped and robed
and collared and shampooed and robed and
made generally in condition to entertain
| their friends. Mrs. Nugent, who is writ
er, by the way, and has produced a reada-
| able "Tales of Burmah," can make the
! proper sort of canine a social swell from
! the cradle to the grave. She has dog
barber shop, a dog tailoring establishment
and a dog undertaken, who can make any
pet look bewitchingly beautiful in a coffin.
The membership in this club is a guinea
year for town mebers, half guinea
| for her country constituents.
| What does a canine club member get for
| this bagatelle? why" says Madame,
the proprietor, che gets the use of rooms
and kennels free, shampooning and sup
| ply of collars, coats, etc, with a p per
| cent. reduction and a fourteen days free
! board and residence per annum-a sort
of vilieggiatura-at the club kennels in
| the country. l may add that we also
| brush our members teeth, cut their nails
| (chiropody Is the technical term for this
| operation) and clip poodles." She carries
! a dazzling stock of coats, collars, social
| ed leaders, and last, but not least, a va
| riety of the most dainty pocket handlker-
chiefs, specially designed and manu-
! featured for the use of the canine snout.
| Her members comprise delegates of dog
! aristocracy bulldogs, pugs, poodles, ter
riers, coles, in fact, about every brand
under heaven but Newfoundlands. She
| says they're Scratched because so big
and troublesome. They're only good for
| the mental occupation Of saving life.
| One of the raging fashions just now,
| this dog angel will tell you, is for people
| to have their crest clipped out on the
| dogs coat Che natural coat, particularly
! in the case of poodles. One Irish gentle
! man favors the shamrock, another owner
| a lion. Mrs. Langtry has all her dogs
| clipped with L. L., and Charlie Mitchell,
| the prize fighter, has had a prize fight
| clipped out of the hair of his fancy"
| Other people favor lace designs-a most
laborious and expensive job-and so =
| When McCamonts horse won the Der
by, the champion clipper who does all the
best artistic work, was all day engaged
| clipping a horse and jockey for a gem
tleman, and waited, dog in hand for
| the telegraph to flash the name of the
winner-in order to clip it underneath the
design on the dogs back.
There are two very swell occasions in
dog nabob's life-when he goes to a we'd
ding, and when he joins the big majority
that will bark no more. It's a toss up of
| a penny which he really enjoys the more:
| that is, when he is more the lion of the
hour Perhaps he prefers the wedding, for
| there's more life about it. When his mis-
| tress marries, if she's as blooded as he is,
/ Gr-k -
| mary shampoo and are then dressed in
white satin coats, with white satin leaders
and carries a bunch of orange blossoms
about his festive form. When one of the
| grand heiresses of the Rothschild family
went to the altar her inseparable canine
| friends, resplendent in satins and gems.
were said to have been the best dressed
guests at the festival. The favorites were
at her fair heels during the entire cere-
mony, and It was gossiped through the
| audience that one Of them was to give the
bride away.
In death the canine royalist receives dis
| tinguished honors. Not long ago a count
ess gave a beautiful funeral for her spaniel.
There was hearse, followed by mourning
| coaches and an oaken, satln-lined casket
contained all that was mortal of the dear
| departed. There is a famous dog cemetery
| in Kent They had one, the canine lovers
of London, in Hyde Park at one time,
| started by the Duke of Cambridge's coach
man, and 1t threatened to spread so among
other parks that the police brutally put
stop to the whole business. They can't
beat US on these tender tributes to our
| loved and lost quadruDeds, however, for
we can show lots Of dog graves and costly
| dog monuments in Greenwood, and they
are covered with floral wrea his on sad an
niversary days, and wet with tears too
! just the same as abroad.
OF course, for it's Paris, the dog toilet
establishment of Nine. Ledouble, in the
! Palais Royal, is far more elaborate and
| recherche than the London concern. Rath-
| er a deserted and back-number part Of
| Paris now is the Paais Royal but the
! clever madame's dog aristocrats keep It
still, to some extent, in the social swim.
You can buy a dog outfit there that would
! make a brides trousseau turn pale with
! envy. There are coats OF every conceiva-
| BILE sort and shape-coats with fur trim
! coats, waterproof coats. coats for all
| flannel. Of batiste, of lace, of silk-which
last. Nine Ledouble explains, prevents Ia
| colique-and toilets for riding for visiting
| for receiving, for yachting and for other
| fashionable functions. And she Is no up
start parvenu in the dog world either, for
| she and her departed lord founded the
dog toilet bazaar in 1882, mind you.
rs 1t not outrageous" the little old wo-
man will ask, that paper right here in
| Paris not long ago, published an article
| stating that a new fashion had been intro
| duced into Paris from Iondon-that of la