THE CONQUEST OF DISEASE 



and destitute children, inmates of institutions, 

 all of whom are suffering for want of the two 

 great essentials- -home and love. Look at 

 their listless faces; they tell the story of their 

 starvation for these two needs of the growing 

 child. Let us take a single city, New York. 

 It had 14,000 homeless children in 1908 ; and in 

 that year issued 44,000 dog licenses. It is esti- 

 mated by Richard Barry that there are at least 

 5000 dogs in New York having elaborate out- 

 fits (dress collars, expensive blankets, beds, 

 trouserettes, etc. ) , and living in perfumed lux- 

 ury. There are seven shops on two streets in 

 that city devoted exclusively to fashionable 

 dogs' furnishings, selling everything for these 

 animals, from silk-lined blankets and foot 

 warmers to canine manicure sets, automobile 

 outfits and mahogany dressing tables. The 

 average cost of keeping each of these fashion- 

 able dogs is about $260.00 per year. One 

 woman spent $17,500.00 in a year upon her pet 

 poodle, its luxuries including a French maid in 

 exclusive attendance. These dogs eat the ex- 

 pensive delicacies of the market.* 



*For a further discussion of this subject the reader is re- 

 ferred to a striking article by Eichard Barry, on ' ' Dogs and 

 Babies," in Pearson's Magazine, December, 1909, from which 

 this information is taken. 



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