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Popular Science Monthly 



The town house in which the twenty-five prize dogs find their canine heaven is lavishly furnished. 

 Their meals are served by Japanese waiters, and they sleep in dainty steel cribs luxuriously padded 



These Ganine Aristocrats Have 

 Town and Country Mansions 



DOZENS of socialists are born every 

 time the newspapers print an account 

 of some prodigal millionaire who gives 

 diamond jewelry as favors at a banquet. 

 But the sumptuous mansion for lap-dogs, 

 two rooms of which are shown in the 

 photographs above, will create 

 more bomb-loving socialists 

 than the most ambitious of 

 banquets was ever responsible 

 for. 



New York has another thing 

 to be ashamed of. If every 

 man who is conducting a 

 personal "hunger 

 strike," walking job- 

 less about America's 

 streets, possessed a 

 good position and plenty 

 of food, one might con- 

 template the "finest dog 

 house in the world" with a 

 degree of good-natured forbearance. 



Twenty-five prize dogs, with plenty of 

 choice food and warm beds, have an ideal 

 existence at their "town house," in the heart 

 of New York city. To make matters even 

 more unbearable to the socialist, a summer 

 house is provided for them in the country. 



The "town house" is lavishly furnished 

 with Japanese furniture and ornaments. 

 Each dog has a valet or maid. 



Scented baths in 

 of finest crockery 

 the twenty-five 



An Ant Can Carry Ten Times Its Own 

 Weight; But Suppose It Were Bigger 



"f^ O to the ant, thou sluggard," and 

 V_T watch it carry a weight fully ten 

 times its own, for a distance equivalent to 

 miles considering its size, and then blush 

 for shame because man cannot do at least 

 as much. Let the horse blush, too, for 

 even it can carry loads only' about equal 

 to its bodily weight. 



But is the ant really so superior in 

 strength? Would it be able to 

 perform its remarkable carrying 

 stunt if it were as 

 heavy as a man or a 

 horse? Science says 

 not, and explains 

 that since an ant's 

 strength is in proportion 

 to its cross-section, not to 

 its length, if it should grow 

 to twice its original size 

 retaining its natural geo- 

 metrical structure, it 

 would be only four times as strong, although 

 it would be eight times as heavy. Thus its 

 strength would be relatively halved rather 

 than doubled. Following the same line of 

 reasoning, if the same ant should grow to 

 be the size of a man, it would be able to 

 carry only one one-hundredth of its weight, 

 which is less than a human baby can do. 

 Therefore, exit the ant as a perpetual 

 reproach to man's puniness. 



individual basins 

 are provided for 

 little aristocrats 



