The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-10

 ter shape. and they have better health without their shoes and jackets. l tell :. wolnen so every day, but they wont be- live me. It is a fad to dress up we'll bred little dogs, and no man can stop a 1 fad.
 T know one women here in New York who came nome from aris a year ago last summer with an outfit for her Yorkshire terrier that filled a Saratoga trunk. In answer to a direct question she told me it cost her about two tlou- sand dollars.
 You would think that this ought to last any dog a lifetime, but this wo- man can't spend as much money as she would like to on her pet. She's just back from Paris again, and she has brought with her complete new ward robe for the animal. Since I've known her she has spent at least $S,o00 on that little dog.
 ''She is only one of large number of wealthy women in New York who, in caring for their dogs, go to extremes that seem ridiculous. Another woman whose little spaniel have often treated has 8 miniature cottage for him.
 Tt is built of mahogany; exactly in the form of house for human beings. The windows have glass in them and tre adorned with lace curtains tied back with blue ribbons.
 Inside are two artistically carpeted and papered rooms. One contains a small edition os a bed. and the other. which she calls the dining room, has a little chair and some silver cups and plates.
 Tt is these pampered animals, par ticularly the Yorkshire terriers and Japanese spaniels, which are the most delicate of all, that keep me busy. charge $2 visit and am kept on the go making calls. :.t :,
 ''They are not all day calls. I have my telephone close to my bed, and at least three or four times week I am rung up on night hurry calls. For these charge double.
 Plenty of women summon me on very slight pretext, or no pretext at all. suppose give them value by setting their minds at rest. hope SO, because my bills are often as large as those of the family physician.
 T am making two calls day on one little dog just now. Its mistress will get a bill for several hundred dollars. If I save him, and I think will, she will pay that bill and be lavish in her thinks, besides I know from experi- ence.
 This particular woman is chidlless; but know others with children who give more time, and apparently more care. to their dogs than they do to their small sons and daughters. Ex- perienced as I am in this sort of thing, I am often surprised at the amount of affection a woman will show for a little dog.
 An English actress whose toy dog I treated early last winter was about to sail for England to fill engagements when she learned that under the British law her dog would be held at the port of entry for some time, and wouldn't be allowed complete freedom for six months. She cancelled her English en- agreements and stayed here most of the winter. She didn't propose to be sepa- rated from her dog, she told me-"
 Actresses and other women who travel find it much easier than former ly to take a small dog with them on their journeys. They can smuggle the pet into hotels and trains where dogs are not welcome in leather satchel which is constructed so that the dog can have plenty of air and some light, but which to outward appearances is an ordinary travelling bag.-New York Sun.