208 Dog Shows and Doggy People 



We all know how much rests with two leading officials of any 

 Committee or Board, the Chairman, or Chairwoman, as the case may 

 be, and the Secretary, and although Lady Reid has had the co- 

 operation of a number of ladies of ability and experience in the 

 de'tails relating to dogs and doggy affairs, it says much for her tact, 

 courtesy, and capacity for business, often of a difficult and com- 

 plicated character, that she has been able to direct and assist in 

 carrying out so many successful shows and other undertakings held 

 under the auspices of the Ladies' Kennel Association. 



All who have seen her ladyship at any of the above-named affairs 

 will know the zeal and energy she throws into her work, and that 

 she is not content to allow her name and influence to be used, and 

 remain a mere figure-head of the Committee, but is up and about, 

 here, there, and everywhere, taking the keenest interest in all that 

 is going on, and showing herself to be a " live Chairwoman." I 

 have no doubt her colleagues would confirm my opinion that a 

 good deal of the credit for the amount of work accomplished since 

 the Association was founded some years since is due to this lady's 

 valuable services. 



I have much pleasure in giving a capital portrait of Lady Reid 

 herewith, and* including her ladyship in my little gallery of Doggy 

 People, by whom she is so much appreciated. 



Mrs. Hugh Ripley 



THIS lady has not been very long before the public as one interested 

 in dogs, but is certainly prepared to take the rough with the smooth, 

 and not easily daunted. 



All the admirers of the fascinating Skye Terriers were pleased 

 to add her name to their number, the more so that, with the 

 Countess of Aberdeen, Miss Bowyer Smythe, Sir Claud Alexander, 

 and Miss Clifton, she took up the cudgels in favour of the Drop- 

 eared variety, which for some time, till of late, has been languishing 

 for want of support; and those who remember Skyes some fifteen 

 or twenty years ago know what beautiful Drop-eared specimens were 

 then to be seen at our shows indeed, in England, whatever they 

 might have done "over the border," they often outnumbered the 

 Prick-ears. Some of the Drop-ears shown by this lady have been 

 Winsome Boy, Ballochmyle Random, Sweetie, and Markington 

 Bonny ; and the Prick-ears, Red Lassie and Markington Sprite. 



