Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-28

border and probably do yet with the plain
| country folk. and married for marbled Is
In all likelihood a Scottish survival of the
very old English word. which has alone
survived in England in its use for the mot
| tied collie dog.
merled dog may be of various mottlings.
such as reddish brown with black mot
things, or what in setter Is blue Bolton,
| with or without tan markings about the
| head when 1t is styled blue merle. The
| color Is undoubtedly of very ancient origin.
for 1t Is found in several breeds which can
not under any circumstances be considered
| as associated nowadays. 1t Is very COM
mon in the smooth sheep dog, enormously
| called a collie but which is of the mastin
| family. We find it in the Great Dane and
| also in the dachshupd. 1t Is by no means
| common color. but only crops out occasion
| ally and sometimes with strange persisten-
| cy In some special cases. AS all instance or
| this ! knew of collie bitch which Is near
| as l could find out was from one which
| came from Mr.. Morgans kennels some
| years ago now. and he then had one or two
merles This particular bitch had filters by
| collies and by mongrels, even by halfway
| decent Newfoundland, and in every litter
| there were two or three blue merles. She
| herself had only two dark blotches on her
quarters, being otherwise a sable collie
Birmingham has been the only section of
! England where the merles have been fos-
! tered OF late and by but one or two breed
| ers They have sought for Improvement in
! appearance by introducing high class sable
| blood, but being Always limited in selection
| to the puppies of merle color progress along
| the line of improvement has been exceeding
| ly slow If they have had two hundred pup
pies to pick from there have been twenty
thousand collies of other colors from which
selection could be made, 4 great difference
in the way of selecting for Improvement At
the recent show of the Birmingh ham Collie
Club there was an excellent turn out of this
variety. in report of the show AIR Pack
wood stating that they were in reality the
chief attraction of the show, and were a
beautiful colored collection. making pleas
Ing sight The best of the variety in Eng
land is one called Blue Princess Alice, and
her photograph shows her to be a hand
some collie. with very good head and her
color is well broken up An occasional fea-
ture of the neries is the white eye, called
china and Occasional ly wall eye This also
crops out in the Harlequin Great Danes. in
the smooth sheep dog. the notified dach-
shund and the bob-tailed sheep dog. which,
in my opinion. originated in cross between
what were called Russian pointers or set
tiers. which were not at all uncommon in
England about 1860 and the common
smooth mastif farm dog. now the smooth
collie. Whether we will ever take up the
merle in serious manner remains to be
seen Mr. Morgan still has few which he
shows the best; and with the high class
crossing material at his disposal he may
produce something worthy of his kennels, |
but the paucity of progeny of the right |
color to select from has and always VIII be |
the stumbling block in the way of getting a
high class one.
The Hartford Show.
1t is a long time since we had dog show
at Hartford. the last having been held many |
years ago and ending disastrously to the |
funds of the ub n. SPONSORS for the show. |
The Hartford club of that time started out |
with the apparently laudable idea of finding |
out who were the most acceptable judges to
the exhibitors and appointing them to Office |
They Went so far as to get the vote. but as
1t ran counter to what they had thought |
would be the case 1t was discarded and |
judges to the taste of the appointees we're !
put in office. We have new regime alto
gether with this present time Hartford
Show Association. and We have New Eng
land judges entirely. Miss Whitney. Mr. |
w. n. kimball. Mr.. Joseph b. Thomas, jr,
DR.. j: Z. Hair. Mr.. H. s. Pitkin. ]. F. |
triangle and Harry Lacy as the a'l-rounder |
after the other special lists have attended
to their breeds. The show is set for Novem-
Der - to %. and will be held in the Audi |
torium, large building close to the depot |
One good feature for exhibitors is that dogs
may be taken away the last evening in time
for convenient trains to the east and west |
so that New York and Boston folks can get
home in good time.
The club has adopted an innovation so
as to overcome the necessity of paying out
prizes for walkovers. and how that will
pan out remains to be seen. The announced
prizes in each class are ribbons but the
association offers specials of IS and 50 in
all classes which have three entries and
where there are less than three entries the
special Is of 81 only, the second dog, If there
Is one, getting special. 1t Is very
wonderful rule that cannot in some way be |
evaded. and this idea is purely and SIM
ply an evasion of the principle that prizes |
cannot be reduced or in any way changed
from what is announced in the premium
list. This club could not state that the
prizes would be s. and 50 but that these
amounts would be reduced if only two en-
tries were received and only the 81 prize
would be paid. The American Kennel Club
would stop that. but the club can. out of it's
own goodness of heart after giving the an
nounced prize ribbons, add specials in the
shape of cash, and in any manner the club
sees fit. What exhibitors think of it will be
shown when entries are announced.
Exhibition of Toy Spaniels.
Entries closed on Friday for the annual
Toy Spaniel Club show at the Waldorf-As-
toria Hotel New York, the show taking
place November 6 and I. Miss Par
lett who is a most efficient secretary for
the club. says that the show will undoubt-
eddy exceed all previous efforts Of the club
and both in number and quality of the
entry will be decided Improvement
Although within week of the
closing OF entries for the Boston Terrier
Club show AT Boston. on November IA %
Il. not line has been announced regard
Ing classification. prizes specials Looks
as If it was wanted to be exclusively Bos-
ton. The out-of-date. provincial. COW judg-
ing idea Of three judges is to be put in
force 1t is easy to predict that the WIN
ners will show lack of similarity in type
for that Is bound to be the result where
three men of different minds come together
to award prizes. Judge A fancies one dog,
Judge = another and Judge still another
After talking ard discussing E comedies
with and then A agrees that BIS
dog is second best. and c is permitted to
get third prize for his selection. 1t is very
safe to say that If A had been Judging
alone he would have selected something
else as more nearly approaching his first
dog than either the selections Of or G,
and the result Is a false note in the uni
formlty which marks the best kind of judg-
Ing. A man may not pick out the dog the
critic thinks best. but the latter will never
find fault with man who shows by his
work that he has an ideal. There IS one
thing you will never find out in three
judges work-which of the three was re-
sponsble for some unquestionably bad
dog getting into the money. Each of the
three will contidentially inform you that
ne was outvoted. for he did not like the
dog