Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
CHICAGO SETS PACE
IN PETS TOILETS
DOGS WEAR EARRINGS AND HAVE
NAILS MANiCURED
Imported Brass Beds with Linen
Sheets, Silk Nightqowns and
French Maids Necessary TO
Their Happiness

Household pets are no new thing in
the Windy city, but never have they
received such attention as is now being
bestowed upon them in Chicago So
ciety's search for Lenten diversion.
Formerly it was considered sufficient
if the canine and feline pets received a
daily bath and after their hair was
combed and brushed We're robed with
embroiderv and silk bows. Now no
dog is considered by certain people
to be properly equipped to enter the
parlor until in addition to his bath
and his robe, his nails have been man
toured by a specialist, his teeth washed
and polished by another and there are
earrings o. some sort, preferably dia-
monds, in his ears.
The earring fad was imported from
Paris, duty free, with no royalty for
it's inventor. The manicuring of nails
and the application of dentistry orig
mated in Chicago. Princess Engalit-
cheff is credited with being the first
person to send her pets to manicurist.
She is an American woman, who ac-
quired foreign title by marrying
prince of Russia, Unlike some of her
notable coIntryWomen, however, she
kept her title and her husband in the
United States.
Princess Engalitcheff has a prefer
ence for Boston terriers, and her pets
are aristocrats of their kind. They are
washed and manicured regularly,
sprayed with perfume of delicate odor,
and when dressed for state occasions
are regarded as irresistible, if, besides
being beribboned and bespangled, they
have on mantle and knee breeches,
which the princess has wrought with
her own deft needle. None of them
is required to have his face shaved ev-
cry morning, but nevertheless all go to
the BARRIERS, who clips their glossy
coats to any length and in any style to
suit the fancy of their fastidiouS mis-
| tress.
Chicago was quick to adopt the man
| toured dog fad, and now Tabby's nails
have to be manicured too. Mrs. George
X. Spoor dotes on dainty little italian
greyhound, Don by name. Don'S toes
are watched closely If one of his nails
gets oVerlong, off to the manicurist he
goes. When he returns home he can
make his bed on the end of a lace cur
tain or recline on a silk counterpane at
his own sweet will.
Mrs. Marshall Fields pride is a silver
Yorkshire terrier of ancient pedigree.
The animal requires a great deal of
attentiOn-sO much that she COM
mands almost the entire time of a
French maid. F'lossie has "a house of
her own. of Gothic architecture, fur
nished with a brass bed. just the right
size for an aristocratic dog of her
breed On the bed there is a mattress
of down. When Flossie retires it is
between white sheets OF linen. with
pink comforter above them. The
dog has wardrobe of her own. i'm
cluding nightgowns of lingerie and
pink silk.
Flossie eats from q plate of silver
and an artistically wrought bowl.
There was a time when her long. Wavy
front locks fell into her plate and bowl
as she ate, and n napkin was pinned
over her shirtwaist. Now the French
maid braids up the tresses and ties
them on Flossie's head with a blue
ribbon before every meal. After break
fast and luncheon and dinner the braids
are undone and the locks drop to their
accustomed place.
One of the best dressed pets is Mrs.
Robert Furey's French bulldog, Mon
sieur Beaucaire. His collars and blank
cts are imported direct from Paris. Mrs.
Frank Cooper's Buster Brown has the
distinction of being a benefactor to his
kind. The unsympathetic managers of
Chicago's fashionable hotels, in which
Mrs. Cooper dwels when she is in the
city, objected to giving bed and board
to Buster Brown, so Mrs. Cooper helped
to build a dog refuge in Kenwood, an
aritsocratic residence section of Chi
cago. 1t is - big two-story building,
where fanciers bestow as much care on
animals left in their charge while their
masters OF, mistresses are abroad as the
average physician or trained nurse
gives to a hospital patient.
1t is not here, however that the mani
| curing and dental work is done. spe-