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THE DOG IN THE ART PALACE. 



I must say that I found many beautiful paintings and 

 sculptures in the Art Palace which had no reference to dog 

 and gun or fish and rod. Still, heie and there were marine, 

 river, field and forest views. The dog apiDeared oftener in 

 scenes of domestic life than in shooting or hunting, presum- 

 ably so because artists are generally not familiar with the 

 dogs and his uses other than as seen in everyday life. The 

 dog, too, were not intended, in most instances, to be faithful 

 representations of a breed or type, but merely to produce an 

 effect, to complete an impression of home' life or to give 

 animation or action to some scene. 



The shepherd and his dog, watching his floct in the soli- 

 tudes of the wilderness, or gathering them in to an inclosure 

 for the night, appeared to be a favorite theme. One painting 

 depicts the shepherd clad in a heavy fur coat, sitting on the 

 ground cutting a loaf of bread, which he is cutting the 

 wrong way. The flock of sheep is gathered around him, 

 each one looking at him |in wonderment. The dog sits by, 

 with head hanging contemplatively, and gazing intently on 

 the loaf with a gra\aty which denotes more than a speculative 

 interest. He seems to wonder whether any of that loaf wiU 

 drop for place. 



" Reauiescat." 



A painting which attracted a great deal of attention has 

 the above name, "Requiescat," and is numbered 411, in the 

 section set off to Great Britain. It portrays a knight in full 

 armor lying rigid in death upon a bed richly furnished with 

 a delicately worked counterpane, which hangs irregularly 

 over the side to the floor. The raised visor shows a manly 

 face set in the fixed hard lines of death. The figitre is that 

 of a symmetrical yet powerful man who probably had fought 

 once too often. The hand of the dead warrior rests close by 

 the bedside. His dog, a bloodhound, sits with his side to the 

 bed, his head pressed close to his dead master's hand. The 

 dog is the only watcher. In his eyes are a depth of unutter- 

 able mournfulness and grief. Rejection marks every linea- 

 ment. Sitting by the bedside of his dead master with his 

 cheek pressed lovingly to the still hand, he is an embodiment 

 of fidelity, unselfish grief and love. There is a deal of pathos 

 in the picture. The picture itself is most artistically execu- 

 ted. The texture is wonderfully good. The armor shows 

 the blue smooth polish of burnished steel with its reflections 

 of lights. The woven chain at the joints at the shoulders 

 and elbows looks like real chain. The bedpost is hard dried 

 of fine grain wood, with a season crack in it, and it is rich in 

 color. The counterpane had all the softness and fineness of 

 cloth in its look, and the embroidery on it seemed as real as 

 if done with silk by the deft hand of woman. Its coloring is 

 excellent. The coloring of the dog, too, is good. His figure 

 is not bad either, though the anatomy might be better. But 

 the expre.ssion of mournfulness and affection which the artist 

 put into the attitude and expression are admirable. 



" The New Whip." 



This picture, too, is quite good. It is No. 71, in the British 

 section. A four-year old youngster, clad in the too plentiful 

 folds of his father's scarlet cloak and hunting cap, holds a 

 hunting whip awkwardly in his hands. His face shows all 

 the importance of childish authority as he stands in the 

 center of a pack of hounds. The dogs are good-naturedly 

 fawning on him or gazing on him with affectionate looks, 

 utterly ignoring his assumption of authority. They are 

 quite faithfully drawn and colored. The texture of the coats 

 is also well shown. 



" Stag Hunting- in a Sea Fog-." 



This picture^ No. 307, in the British section, was intended 

 to be a spirited portrayal of dashing action in horses and 

 dogs, in foggy weather, at a deer hunt, but the most robust 

 feature of it, after a horse or two and riders in the fore- 

 ground, and a hound or two of weird figtire, followed by a 

 procession of goblin dogs, is the fog itself. The scene and 

 the ears of the dogs would suggest that they were intended 

 to be hounds. But the procession of dogs can be seen far 

 into the fog, though the second or third dog, close in the 

 foreground, has lost his distinctness of outline. So, too, 

 with the horses and riders. Each horse and dog has about 

 the same action, legs extended fore and aft. It is a funny 

 fog, too, for while it is thick in the foreground the dogs are 

 lost to view chiefly by the distance. It is a poor portrayal of 

 a pack, this string of dogs following by one and twos clear 

 into the distance. It seems to me it is a mistake to attempt 

 to show more in a fog than the fog will|perrait. There also 



"attention !" 

 Judge Mason at the Wlssahlchon Show. 



may be hounds somewhere like the ones pictured, but they 

 probably were hid in a fog. With such hounds and such 

 fog and horses— great sport. 



In the British section. No. 406, entitled " Maternity," is a 

 good painting of a lioness and cubs. The figures and 

 anatomy are excellent, and the color and texttire is equally 

 good. 



Oliver Twist. 



No. 419 is called "He Walks to London." It shows Oliver 

 Twist, one of Dickens's charactei-s, walking along a country 

 highway. A lithe, slender boy is he, weU made, though 

 with some of the sharp angles of boyhood in his figure, and 

 legs and arms fully 3in. too long for the clothes, which he 

 has outgrown. A collie of the kind which seldom takes a 

 prize nowadays is frolicking with sheep close by. The boy is 

 so intent on his journey that he gazes not on either dog or 

 sheep. 



Daniel. 



No. 413 is a good painting of a group of lions, large and 

 small. They gaze on Daniel, some kindly, some fiercely, who 

 s in their den. Daniel appears calmly indifferent. 



Herder Assembling His Flock. 

 No. 90, in the Belgian exhibit, in the gaUery, is a pastoral 

 scene, showing a herder with a prick-eared dog at work tn a 

 half-hearted manner. No. 91, another picture, is sheep, shep- 

 herd and a long-legged, smooth-coated, bushy-tailed dog 



with a strong family resemblance to an exaggerated fox. 

 Very few of the portraits of collies in the Art Palace look 

 like the dog show collie, or vice versa. Also each artist ap- 

 pears to have his own inspii-ation of color and type. 



In the German exhibit, No. .573, in the gallery, are four 

 panels, paintings of guns of old pattern, crossbows, armor, 

 swords, daggers, gamebags, etc., wonderful in carvings and 

 jewels. The paintings look so real that not infrequently the 

 visitor takes a side view across the surface to see if he is not 

 deceived. The many kinds of jewels on the handles seem 

 real. The metal with its color, hardness of surface and 

 polish appears to be genuine. On the scabbards are pictures 

 of battles, delicate car\nngs in elaborately fine detail. 



"A-fzinc cast of a life-size hunter and dog called "In the 

 Shooting Stand" is a most spirited portrayal of a hunting 

 scene. Dog and hunter seem to have just heard the approach- 

 ing game. The hunter rests on one knee. With his left 

 hand he firmly holds down his dog. In his right hand he 

 holds a double rifle by the grip of the stock, his finger on the 



"iN AKXIOTJS MOMENT." 



Wlssahickon Show. 



trigger ready for instant action. The figure is that of a man 

 in the prime of life, handsome and athletic, clad in full hunt- 

 ing costume, and full of the spirit of the chase. Opposite 

 this is a zinc cast, life size, of an older man in a plainer 

 costume. He is on both knees on the ground, near a bad- 

 ger's burrow. In one hand, he holds in check a dachshund 

 by the loose skin of its back. This cast isj called "At the 

 Kennel of a Badger." It is well proportioned and life like. 



A bronze eagle from Japan is a masterpiece of fine work. 

 The figure is perfect, and the feathers, corrugations on the 

 feet, etc., are worked out in patient and accurate detail. It 

 is numbered 14. 



Breaking the Home Ties. 



This picture, from its homely pathos, is never without a 

 group of admirers. It all centers in the common, everyday 

 family life of the people who make a country— the workers. 

 A home, plain in itself and plainly furnished, has become 

 too small for the family, or other places lure the oldest boy 

 away with promise of fame and profit. The boy is an ordin- 

 ary one. They are all homely, earnest people. The moment 

 of separation has come. The mother, homely of feature and 

 cheaply clothed, but with the love for her son and fortitude 

 to bear the ordeal of separation showing in her face, is giving 

 her boy parting advice, which like many thousands before, 

 is imdoubtedly largely wasted. The driver stands by wait- 

 ing till the final farewells are said. A filled carpet bag de- 

 notes that with its contents the boy must begin his life's 

 battle. The father is thoughtful, the grandmother sits at 

 the humble breakfast table in apathy, and the sister sits on 

 a chair with a hand gently resting on the head of the family 

 dog, the latter gazing curiously at his young master a§ if 

 unable to solve the emotional outbreak in the humdrum life 

 of the home. 



The dog, too, is a marvel. It is too bad to find fault 

 with anything, even the dog, so well conceived and ar- 

 ranged is the picture, and with a pathetic story so plain 

 that words are not needed to tell it. It appeals to every 

 visitor, for evei-y man and woman has felt the force of 

 breaking home ties some time in life. 



But that dog is a marvel. He has a frank, honest ex- 

 pression, as becomes a dog of good associations, and he is 

 not ungrateful, as shown by his deep and solemn interest 

 in the proceedings; but he is the wearer of a coat beside 

 which that of Jacob would be commonplace. The dog is 

 rough-haired, and in contemplation was a collie. An in- 

 finity of tints in his color are used to produce the proper 

 effect. Blue, yellow, brown, black, white, green, orange 

 and some others I could not determine, were mixed in spots 

 around the head, neck, shoulders and hips, probably to pro- 

 duce correct markings, but they made the poor dog look too 

 dudish for 'his surroundings. The sooner that dog can shed 

 that coat, the better. No man can object to it for want of 

 markings, but, somehow, it is wrong. 



Training the Dog. 



No. 311 in the U. S. exhibit is a charmingly executed 

 picture of a group of bootblacks, each clad in the tattered, 

 odd garments peculiar to them, and each had his box slung 

 to his shoulder. They are gathered about one of their 

 number, who is giving a command to a small cur which he 

 has placed on the head of a barrel. A frayed cord hanging 

 loosely on the dog's neck suggests how the boys led him to 

 the secluded corner where they would be free from inter- 

 ference. The boy holds forth his hand, and the expression 

 of his face denotes that he expects his order to be obeyed. 

 The dog does not understand, looks cowed and apprehensive 

 of harm, holds up one paw and appears so -svilling to obey 

 did he but know how. The faces of the boys are a study. 

 All have the sturdy look of health and self-reliance, but 

 each one expresses a different emotion. One looks eagerly 

 as if he expected the command obeyed at once; another 

 looks on compassionately; and yet another looks cold and 

 wise as if he knew just how it would all be. The faces are 

 all interesttag and Intelligent. The artist succeeded admir- 

 ably in bringing out so many expressions and emotions in so 

 natural a manner. Still, it is hard for the dog. 



B. Waters. 



909 Skcurtty Buildino, Chicago. 



Field trial entries which close Sept. 1 are the Ohio Field 

 Trial Club's Derby, with G. L. Melliager, Canton, O., and 

 the United States Field Trial Club's winter Derbys, with P. 

 T. Madison, Indianapolis, Ind. 



Puppies at Walk. 



How many kennels send their puppies out to walk ? Com- 

 paratively few in this country. The average dogman thinks 

 he has done the right thing when he has built himself a 

 kennel — ornate or just in the rough — with runs, they must 

 all have runs, where the dogs exercise themselves just about 

 as much as a New York alderman. Many of our kennels 

 are run on too-confined principles. Put a dog of the larger 

 breeds in a run, however large, and spare enough time 

 from your other pursuit to judge for yourself how much 

 exercise that dog will tate and you will learn a few things. 

 When the dog turns out in the morning he may take a 

 scamper to the limits of his domain a.nd greet some kennel 

 acquaintance through the railing, but with courtesies ex- 

 changed be walks leisurely to a favorite corner and there 

 curls up for a snooze or a loaf, till excited by some passing 

 object or noise he tears round for a minute or so and all is 

 quiet again. This, in many kennels, is kept up day after 

 day, week in and week out. Then the owner wonders how 

 it is that his dogs don't thrive, that the knee joints are 

 enlarged and cow hocks so prevalent, hair falls out and 

 sores appear. Put yourself in the dog's place. What 

 inducement is there to move about, what object in life has 

 the dog, what anticipation, except feeding time? His lot is 

 worse, or as bad, as any prisoner of the old Bastile. Show 

 time comes around and the dog is "fattened up," but little, 

 if any, more attention is paid to proper exercising, the dog 

 isrbenched and what wonder, when he finds himself one of 

 several himdred other dogs, he becomes so excited that he 

 puts himself into temporary sicknes.s— diarrhoea and other 

 ills the show dog handler is familiar with. We are speaking 

 now of young dogs, tenderfeet in every sense of the word. 

 After the stuffing process, with little exercise and rich 

 food, after being accustomed to plain tack, comes skin 

 diseases, indigestion and their attendant annoyance and 

 horror. 



This is roughly the average life of an American dog in a 

 kennel with others. There are good kennel men and bad, 

 the former we have nothing to do with here, they know their 

 business and are scarce— very. It is to the men who hav- 

 ing charge of kennels take to the work because it is easy, or 

 they think it is, and do not try to undeceive themselves by 

 making it otherwise, that we draw attention. The owner 

 is a business man and perhaps sees his dogs for a short time 

 in the evening or the morning before he goes "down town," 

 and must therefore depend altogether on his kennel man's 

 inclination and veracity. Orders are no good unless they 

 are carried out. Many a time we hear an owner in speaking 

 of his kennel say: "My dogs get so many miles' walking 

 exercise every day." Do they? Not in nine cases out of ten, 

 unless some member of his family is interested enough to see 

 that this is done, and few owners are so happily situated. 



This brings us to our first question. The future of Amer- 

 ican dog breeding depends upon more attention being paid 

 to the "walking" of young stock, whether it be fox-terriers 

 or St. Bernards. Most of our large kennels are in country 

 towns or the suburbs of large cities and so accessible to 

 farming districts. Though it will be probably more difficult 

 here to find farmers or country people willing to take dogs 

 to walk than it would be in England, where the foxhound 

 and fox-terrier element has made this custom so well known 

 and familiar to the country people, still, by judicious selec- 

 tion aided by liberal inducements in the way of cold cash, 

 good results may be obtained. There are many small 

 farmers in every district whose women folk would be glad 

 to walk a puppy or two for the extra pin-money they would 

 derive from it. 



There is always something going on at a farm, and the 

 puppies, free from restraint and innocent of collar and chain 

 and with bellies well filled, feel free to take an interest in any- 

 thing that comes along fi-om following the cows to pasture 

 to chasing the chickens. If only one puppy can be walked, 

 this one will generally find a companion or two in the 

 farmer's dogs, with whom he can have a rough and tumble 

 and a scamper. Then when he is brought in, though his 

 coat may be dirty and in the rough, still ten to one his limbs 

 will be sound, his health good, and he will need no kennel 

 drugs or appetizers. The kennel man then has a rough 

 diamond, that with a little refining is ready for the bench. 

 The dog being vigorous and healthy, other things being 

 equal, he or she will be far more likely to produce sound 

 ott'spring th.an kennel-reared stock. The cost of walking . 

 puppies, all things considered, is little more than the expense 



"hard to tell.-" 

 Judge Davison at the 'Wlssahickoii Show. 



of raising at home, and depend upon it it pays double in the 

 end. The simple absence of risk from distemper, when a 

 lot of puppies are kept and reared year after year on the 

 same ground, should alone induce kennel owners to make 

 an effort to get their pups away. 



Columns might be written on .this subject, but the advan- 

 tages of the system are so apparent that it is unnecessary. If 

 you cannot find "walks" for all your pups, pick out the best 

 and sell the rest— at any price, you will find this the best 

 plan in the long run. Keeping a pup that you really do not 

 want, because a standard price is required for it, is a penny- 

 wise policy, for you may keep the dog a year and in the end 

 get no better price. Among those we know of who walk 

 their puppies are the Biemton, Rutherford and Hillside 

 kennels, all fox- terrier breeders. 



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