HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, i 
912 
or mistress says is absolute law. Perhaps 
this may sound a bit obvious, but if it does, 
just stop and think of the few dog owners 
you know who have the slightest control 
over their pets when the latter prefer to 
follow their own inclinations. Fido, or 
Roger, or Bruce, has his natural instinct 
for hunting temporarily aroused by a car¬ 
riage which rattles along the street, and 
he proceeds to depart from the family 
group on your friend’s piazza at the rate 
of three jumps to the second and five 
barks to the jump. A chorus of feminine 
shrieks and masculine roars, all with 
Fido’s name as motif, is added to the 
tumult; but Fido happily continues his 
noisy career as unheeding and care-free as 
an English sparrow on a cornice, and be 
and the carriage vanish up the street in a 
cloud of dust. After the family ire has 
had time to cool down, Fido returns, for 
he is a knowing dog and abhors punish¬ 
ment. 
This is not an agreeable picture, though 
a tiresomely common one; so whatever 
you do instil obedience in your dog: it 
will be well worth while. And with these 
general remarks, we are ready to take up 
the first real lesson — “Come.” 
Begin when the pup is hungry. Let 
him see his dish of food and then pick it 
up and walk slowly away with it, repeat¬ 
ing in a clear but natural voice the single 
word “Come.” Naturally the puppy will 
follow willingly; continue walking about 
for a minute or two, repeating the word 
“come” and avoiding all others. Then set 
the dish down, pat and praise the pup a 
bit. and let him eat. Do this at every 
meaj, and at various other times when the 
pupil seems in the mood to approach you 
use the same word in the same tone. In 
a short time (varying, of course, with the 
puppy’s brightness and your own liking 
for the work) he will associate the spoken 
word with the act of coming to you, 
though as yet he does not understand it as 
a command which must be obeyed. 
Now take the pup to a small closed 
room in a quiet part of the house, where 
there will be no distracting sights or 
sounds to draw his attention from the les¬ 
son he is to receive. Take also a suitable 
collar—to wearing which we will assume 
he has been accustomed — a piece of stout 
cord ten or fifteen feet long, and all the 
patience at your command. Close the 
door and give the puppy a few minutes to 
explore the room if he feels disposed to 
do so. Then give him the word to “come.” 
Probably he will heed it at once. If so, 
pat him a little to show' your approval, 
and when he has moved away repeat the 
command. For the first few times the 
word will probably be heeded and then the 
pup, finding that there is no forthcoming 
reward in the way of something edible, 
will much prefer to go on about business 
of his own. 
This is the critical point. You must 
insist upon obedience or else the lesson 
and many others which follow it will go 
for naught. Repeat the command once, to 
be certain your pupil has heard it, and 
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/ "P HE American home-maker finds October a busy month in the outdoor garden. 
•*- It is then that one must plant bulbs for Spring flowering, and also hardy pe¬ 
rennials for the Summer garden of the season to follow. 
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FALL PLANTING NUMBER, OCTOBER, 1912 
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Brick Houses 
By Robert H. Van Court 
Fall Planting for the Summer Flower 
Garden 
By Gardner Teall 
A House at Reading, Massachusetts 
By Mary H. Northern 
Mount Pleasant on the Schuylkill 
By Harold D. Eberlein 
Pergolas 
Double Page Feature 
A Hillside House in California 
By Margaret Craig 
Bulbs for Fall Planting 
By Ida D. Bennett 
Pheasants 
By E. I. Farrington 
Why Colonial? 
By Harry M. Yeomans 
Around the Garden 
By the Editor 
Helps to the Housewife 
By Elizabeth Atwood 
Raising Bantams 
By E. I. Farrington 
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