The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-14
CANTON FLANNEL DOGS.
People Interested In . Woman's Novel Idea
Displayed In n Shop window.

People Euterested In = Woman's Novel Idea
Displayed in n Shop window.
The store was just like any other furniture store
on Broadway. or Sixth avenue, or Twenty-third
street, and yet everybody slackened his pace
when he got a glimpse OF the left-hand window.
People with no idea of buying furniture. even
il they had the means, and people without the
means, but perhaps with the desire to invest
people.young, old, and in-bctween~ ages-stopped
to look in tho window where stood,the tall, in
laid, Italian cabinet and the slender folding ia
BILE and the armchairs upholstered in rich ma
tcrial.
From under this display of furniture peepcd
fifteen or sixteen little canton flannel dogs.
They were cream colored dogs, the size of toy
terriers, with lapped-over. black broadcloth
ears and shiny-tipped black leather noses
and black beaded eyes: dogs each with a
studded red collar around its neck. looking At
the passerby in the most engaging manner i'm
aginable.
They've got 'em in all positions" said one
of two messenger boys who stopped to look.
'Sce. there's ono with his paws stretched out
in front of him.. lazy like. and that one looking
up as II he expected you to speak to him."
AM there's a difference in the faces. too"
returned the other boy. They've painted the
eyebrows 30 heavy of that one in the corner
that he looks real serious"
"Oh, mamma, see tho doGgies!" exclaimed a
little four-year-old, and she ran SO fast to look
that she tripped over an unseen stone and fell
down, but even this mishap could not dampen
her ardor, and her mother had to wait long at
the window while she dil8ted on the dogs
curly tails and black eyes and shiny noses.
''Strange how life.like those cloth dogs look, J."
said q grave-faced man as he and his com
panion halted on their way ana TOOK more than
O cursory glance.
"They are an ~uncommonly good shape said
It .I1 "a mr. IL IN ntnn - nd 20
You notice, they are nj in good condition,
plump and well fed and cheerful looking. The
canton flannel is n good warm cream color, too.
There are two or three whose eyes have been put
"a shade closer together than the others, or
Who's s,t noses 5b have sHnre 6eg1 made narrower and
That's n clever advertisement. those cloth
dogs. running out from under the furniture
re narkCd an acquaintance of the proprietor to
that individual. as he came to the open door OF
the shop; T didn't mann Il 10. tha,
Glad If it is" was the answer.
wei, how came you to have the dogsl /
didn't know you dealt in anything, but Nernis;
Martin cabinets and bedsteads and high-priced
w don't as ~a-rulc," replied the torekecpc but
n woman l know makes those dogs by a pattern
she got from somewhere abroad, and she asked
me to help her out by putting them IN the win
apiece. / didn't know how to refuse her. al
though J. felt that it would not look Just the
hin .,c AS wa a matter gai1s 20 %, make raeI, ! so a' man n ""o When 7
got down to the store this morning the window
thar I WAS IN for 1t, and might as VOL let them
stay for to-day. All the morning there nave
been people in here asking, about those dogs.
bits or cats made by tho same person, and If
those animals would be made just AS good and
a lot'more questions. There have been just three
customers in the place TO look at or buy furni-
lure, and two or three dozen people looking at
those dogs. l believe five OF the dogs have
been sold"
"Weii, really, I'd advise you to make cloth
dogs your main business in future. and have
80, nnJtnata and Tuhlaa for n side line " Eal1
Inc business acquaintance. II wouldn't have
noticed your place at all to-day had there been
merely chairs and tables in the windows. az
usual. but the little dogs won my interest at
once"
baby show, the shopkeepor called after him as
he walked away.