Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21

both smooth and wires, makes them nine
each. Irish terriers go up three, with a
puppy class division and two American
bred classes. A puppy class has been
added for Scottish terriers, but Welsh and
Manchester terriers remain at four classes
each. Whippets have been reduced to one
class, but Pekinese have been moved from
one class to four. There are plenty in
Philadelphia to make good showing of
this breed. In the other toys the only
change is the putting all English toy
spaniels together and making but eight
classes. This and all similar cuts are the
direct result of poor support, and ex-
hibitors have no one to blame but them
selves, for no show will continue to give
from SIS to $50 in prize money and get
but one or two entries in each class. That
the club will freely add classes where the
support is good is clearly shown by the
addition of but two breeds, Samoyedes and
Italian grayhounds, which call for five
classes, yet the total increase is thirty
three classes. Omitting the deductions there
is an increase of no less than fifty-seven
classes in the well-supported breeds. If
the toy spaniel people want the eight
classes split into varieties it is I'D to them
to guarantee the prize money for what
they want.
The Pekinese Spaniels.
There is no more gratifying increase than
that for Pekinese spanes, breed which
promises to be the next fad in toy dogs
There are more of them in and about
Philadelphia than any part of the country,
although for that matter there are some
very questionable ones there as well. but
these, like the razors in our school books.
are made to sell and not to show Those
who breed this market variety tell weird
stories about their running wild in their
native country, actually being a menace
to the people where they hunt in troops.
The actual facts are that they are the
pets OF the very rich and are hardly ever
seen on the streets, being carried in baskets
when they accompany their mistresses on
visits. Their fame as sleeve dogs and their
being specially palace pets is well known.
ana 1t has always been the most difficult
thlng TO get any of them. It was not until
the loot of the summer palace by the Eng
lish many years ago that they were first
seen or heard of. The few which sub
sequently percoiated to England and this
country came in ways which it might not
pc well to examine into too closely IT
was not till the late foreign OCCUPATION of
Peking that they became in any way more
than great rarities.
They are quaint little fellows. looking
as II they were made from odds and ends
of half dozen other breeds Their heads
1or instance, are quite PIGGY in shape of
the skull, being fiat across the top and not
at all domed, like the English top spaniels
Thelr ears are set high on the side of the
head and are held much like terriers ears.
The fatness of the skull is thus accen-
Iuated and its apparent width increased
The face or muZzle is square and full NOT
bulldoggy at all or forced back into the
skull with absolutely nose" as one
lady in England advertises her toy spaniel
In front the width of chest and spread of
forelegS, together with their shape are
quite bulldog in character. He is some
what low in stature and rather long in
back but not more so than the Scottish
terrier, for example. The coat is more
collie-lke than any resemblance it bears
to spaniels. He has name and frill and
flattish coat of good substance and plenty
of it: The tail is that Of the japanese
spaniel or Pomeranian, arched well over
the back and plumed. There is absolutely
nothing spaniel about the dog and his
name should be simply the Pekng dog just
as we now properly say the Maltese dog in
place of Maltese terrier for that dog is
not a terrier but poodle, which is a d.
version from the spaniel family.
In the English kennel press there is just
now quite lot of virtuouS indignation on
account of some one having wanted to cross
a black pug with a Pekingese dog. Consid-
ering that not one in fifty of those who own
any Pekingese dogs over there have the
faintest idea as to what this breed really
is, it is not surprising that they make such
a fuss about this suggested cross There
are two varieties, the smooth and the
rough, and it is from the smooth that we
got the great improvement in pugs some
from the progeny Of a pair of smooth Picking
dogs, then called Chinese pugs This of
itself was nothing but an outcross of the
same breed, for the pug was originally
Chinese and was introduced into Europe
by the early Dutch navigators in the fif-
tenth or sixteenth century. The Holland
ers of that time even had dinner services,
with their coats of arms on the plates, made
in China. and the intercourse was very
free at that period, hence the pug, which
became known as the Dutch pug.
The Russian pug probably came over
land with the tea caravans. In the
Pekinese filters smooths are found quite
frequently. They will not tell you so in
England, for they get rid of those or call
them black pugs, SO the breeding of the
black pugs. which are descendants of
Picking dogs, with Pekingese is quite the
proper thing, if breeding the two varieties
is, and all admit that to be quite proper.
When a person must be indignant it Is as
we'll to know that he is not likely to make
a fool of himself as Is being done in this
case.
The Papillon or Squirrel Spaniel.
The attempt to introduce the papillon or
squirrel spaniel, another misnomer, seems
to have died a borning. This is really
nice little dog and very bright and intel
ligent. The name papillon comes from the
markings on the head. which resemble a
butterfly IL one stretches his Imagination
somewhat. The head is Of the Pomeranian
order, and that is what the dog unioubt-
eddy is with the exception Of coat, which
is more like the Japanese spaniels than
the Pom; sharp foxy head with rather
large erect ears. The white blaze upon
the face separates the wing butterfly
markings. which cover the ears and the
sides Of the skull in an irregular manner