The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-23
LoNpoNs LATEST CRAZE.
The Women Have Gone Mad Over Bull
 Dogs.

DpNSs
 The aristocratic young woman is nev-
 CT so happy as when she is exploiting
 some new fad. The pet fad now rag
 ing all the way from Bayswater to Bel
 gravia; and the very latest thing in
 pets is bull dogs-the fiercer the better.
 The following adyertisevent shows how
 this new sensation is catching on:-
 Maid wanted-Must be smart, good
 figure. ladyIike and experienced. One
 with knowledge and care of bull dogs
 preferred. Good salary. Apply This kind Of sport carries one back to
 the Georgian days when wealthy danes
 brought back dogs and monkeys and trained them to take caramels from the
 hand and do absurd tricks in the bou-
 doir de luxe! But the bull dog bids
 fair to uotdo this entertainment alto- gether. The other day a fashionable
 writer described her sensations when
 she was introduced for the first time to
 a pet bull dog. Virginia Fanshawe,
 she wrote, ''came to see me the other Adyt IlCu UT IO e tLlOSI 1CIOStOa5 tOOtAT ing bull dog. Of course the Persian
 cats, alarmed, flew about the room with
 wide fiuffed-out. waving tails; but
 peace was restored, and the bull dog
 turned out to be, the mildest hammered
 creature"
 A correspondent supplies some re-
 markable details of the new bull dog
 craze among the aristocratc fair. It
 fiourishes not only among the doggy" | women who show at the Crystal Pal
 ace aud who spend much of their spare ! time i'll analysing the constituent parts ' of Spratt biscuit, but among the quiet young women who cannot tell the diff ference between Schippereke and a
 Chow Chow. The fad began in the Bradley Martin set. and is spreading like smallpox, or a locust cloud. toward the wild confines of Brixton. The re- suit is bad for the poodle, whose nose is getting put out of joint; but excellent for the bull dog. who never did have such a time as he is having just now. In the Bond street tea shops on the
 lawn at Ranelagh. and along the quiet
 back waters of the Thames, the small talk is now very canine indeed. Strange words like sbrindle, 2 ''roached," fal- low screwed and 50 on, sound stranger still from fair lips; but they all
 mean bull dog.
 Several beautiful specimens of the breed may be seen in the park on most mornings, when there is any sun to speak of. tied on to some very charm ing girls, who have suddenly discovered
 that chick combination of beauty and the beast makes beauty all the more ravishing. The bull dog loves peace and veal outlets more than any thing in this earth; but when he is twitted and teased and sneered at (by the low
 CUTS who fancy themselves a little bit) until he can positively stand it no long
 CT, he dashes away from the silken chain that binds him to his mistress, and there is an Homeric battle war and cur outlets. The vagabond dogs of the park stand by to see fair play; and my lady Ernytrude lowers her parasol as a shield, closes her eyes and hopes
 and prays for dear Bully's victory. This
 sort of thing should not be encouraged in his majesty's parks, but it is very inspiring while it lasts.
 Some women go to all sorts of ex- trenes for the sake of their pets. They patronize the experts in the Dials. and
 down Whitechapel way, with the excuse that they are going summing. .Oid Chubby" Is a great friend of one little select eoterie of bull dog Worshipers,
 at whose head is lady Ernnytrude. She I does not mind calling upon him in his noisome little den. and I have 1t that this is the sort of thing that happens "
 T want a brindle and fallow-rising three says she. Chubby. I've got a fine white and
 hound tan, and two rippin' lawns. But brindle and failows is scarce, just now.
 There's a beautiful one that goes by my window every afternoon at three- with a girl who shows off a red parasol. I'd give $50 for a dog like that. Call laround tomorrow MT Chubbins-and I'll show it to youl'
 Next day MT. Chubbins appears and l a stately footman, coughing discreet1y behind his white hand shows MrChub- bins up. He and Lady Ernlytrude stand by the window and watch. Pres ently the red parasol appears, and be- hind it the cherished brindIe follows. l I'd know that dog anywhere" says MT. Chbbins, making a mental note of l it points And he slips away refusing
 a cup of tea most politely.
 Two days later, a bull dog, identical in all points with the coveted beast, is the property of Lady Er1nytrude; and the red parasol (Who has unaccounta.- I bly, lost her bull dogl is broken hearted
 until (after a decent interval)Mr. Chub-
 bins soft heart is too much for him, and he restores it again to it's original owner. Profit on the transaction, $317.- 30, and four silver apostle teaspoons.- | London Leader.