The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-03
DOCS AND THEIR DAYS.
iao" the Fashion Has Changed Within
 the Last Dozen Years


 the Last Dozen Yenrs.
 Nothing is more mysterious than the sudden development of popular taste mere IS no accounting for it; and one ol the most remarkable things about a boom" IS that there seems as little reason for 1t to begin as there is for It to end. And it is in the fashion of uogs that this peculiarlty Is most manifest. Any one whose finger has been on the pulse of dogdom for the iast dozen years can speak to the truth of this. ''-
 There was the collie. A few wears ago he was at his zenith. He was led in the ring by Princess, titled owners competad fot him. cups anA trJ,h., $ were offered at his shrne; aAG 1la prices toueheo 1000 pounds and even L. zOO pounds. Now he is a ,lr,ly 1T: cash- lon's dog '1alket; and like other drpgs Is taken onlo n homeopathic d ,ses Look at the pug. Once he sat 1n every ones lap and snored on every ones sofa. Now not even the discovery of the eharbs of the black variety has stayed the downward course of his thermometer So with toy spaniels. once they set fair on the early vic- torian barometer. So with borzols. which once could boast two duchesses leading their dogs simultaneously at one show. They all hold their own in ] numbers; they are even very important sections of the>d dog world, but they are alas! no longer smart.
 Then came Pomeranians; there 1t was felt the last word had been said. for daintier, more charming and more adorably decorative adjuncts to toil- ct could rot be desired They were just the tiny size to tuck in a pretty arm; they nestled so becomingly in furs; they bore themselves with such aplomb at a restaurant or in carriage that they were the most repandu of little dogs, They became sable or beav- CT or orange or blue or black or cho- 4 colate or white, not, of course, all at once with chameleon adaptability, but in sufficient variety that one could be taken with any dress. His latest de- velopbent Is the parti-colored, which | does not imply a mixture of the above hues, but an exceedingly beautiful ar- rangement of we'll distibuted black and white or blue and white. And there is no doubt he is a strong runner up for the favorite.
 | But the dog of the moment, on For tunes cap the very button is the Pe- kingese. Not to own one is to be demo- dee, which Is not to be contemplated calmly, And to be able to speak with assurance of the Imperial strain of the Dowager Empress preferences, of that footing of the Summer Palace in Pekin apparently payer with Pegingese dogs which founded its breed in England of the treasured pet of her Majesty Queen Tlexandra, of the Goodwood Richmond and Gordon and maintained by Lady Algernon Gordon-Lennox, is the dernier cri. Never in the annals ot dogdom has conquest been so complete l They simply rule soeiety--with a capi. tai S-head the lists of all entries tt shows with amazing totals and have apparently adopted as an integral par part of their importance that no one human being is worthy to judge then alone, but they must always be judged by brace of experts and those experts must be ladies.
 That the Pekingese has always beer costly, decorative and aistocratic Is nc | ,I. ,1- boast of history of couple of thou sand years and fewer still have hat an Empress to lay down rules for it' kennel management However, it na' been found that though the Dowage Empress of the Flowery Land has con descended to give minute injunctions g. to the proper care of these Imperia dogs they really eat, with quite com , monplace heartiness of appetite, quit commonplace fcods.
 ? That the wave of popularity ha probably now reached its topmost curl { and that enthusiasm will commence | wane a little ere long is to be atltici pated, for Pekingese are as hardy d \ they are beautiful, and directly Il. supply equals the demand their en l grosisng charm is diminished for thos 7 who are the pioneers of fashion i l dogs. Perhaps the next swing of tn pendulum will be to Japanese, thos g frail little gems which can never be f come either cheap or common, beeaus s they withstand the attacks oe dseas t about as eIectually as an orchid doe e a sharp frost. More probably the Grii l fon Bruxeois vii be the next Alread l the ripples of popularity are being fe and the prices for good griffons al . anything form 100 pounds upward. EN
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