7- 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1915 
FEBRUARY n Fn * MT* F) 
Motor Number <3 L/vIDiV£<A 
"A picture of the great canal 
builder on the job" 
Personality 
of Colonel Goetnals 
By Joseph Bucklin Bishop 
Author of “ The Panama Gateway, "and for nine 
years Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission 
Mr. Bishop will give in detail 
Col. Goethals’s methods of meet¬ 
ing and solving the many prob¬ 
lems that confronted him from day 
to day, illustrating it with numer¬ 
ous anecdotes and incidents. 
The second instalment of 
The Freelands 
The new serial by 
John Galsworthy 
Mr. Galsworthy has never writ¬ 
ten anything that has made a more 
immediate appeal to the reader’s 
interest. The Freeland family with 
its widely contrasted characters, 
the English country background, 
the possibilities of romance in the 
lives of Nedda, Derek, and Sheila 
— make up a stage-setting full of 
promise, that later chapters amply 
fulfill. 
Militarism and Democracy 
in Germany 
By Oswald Garrison Villard 
A very clear presentation of the 
relations between the army and 
the people. 
Eight Decorations for the Panama- 
Pacific International Exposition, 
hy Frank BrangJpyn. Four of them 
beautifully reproduced in colors 
The Motor in War 
and Peace: 
The Motor in Warfare 
By Charles L. Freeston 
The present war “is not a war 
of men, it is a war of machines.” 
The rapidity, the “speeding-up” 
of the war has been due to the 
wonderful efficiency and use of 
motors. Mr. Freeston shows the 
many ways motors have increased 
the mobility and effective strength 
of the armies. 
Motoring in the High 
Sierras 
By Charles J. Belden 
A wonderful motor-journey 
through one of the most pictur¬ 
esque mountain regions of the 
United States. 
The Woman at the Wheel 
By Herbert Ladd Towle 
Women and the use of the motor 
—gasolene and electric. 
Short Stones 
by John Galsworthy 
George Hibbard 
Katharine Fullerton Ge.ould 
Mary Synon 
Paris in Etching in “The Field of Art” 
Subscriptions to Scribner*s Magazine may begin with any number. The subscription price is $3.00 a year. 
Remittances by draft, express or postal money order, or in currency if sent by registered mail. No 
extra charge for Canadian postage. For other countries in the postal union single subscriptions $4.00. 
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY 
Washing the Dog 
W HETHER your dog be a dachshund 
or a Dane, a Peke or a pointer, he 
should be regularly, conscientiously and 
properly washed. No matter how care¬ 
fully you keep him his coat will accumu¬ 
late dirt which only soap and water will 
adequately remove, and, though “dry 
scrubbing'’ with a good dog brush will do 
much toward keeping his skin in good 
condition, yet a bath once every three 
weeks is strongly to be advised. 
The proper washing of a dog is not as 
simple a matter as the uninitiated might 
think, for the vast majority of canines 
are about as amenable to a good bath as a 
yearling colt to his first harness. There 
are a few exceptions, but the average dog 
considers the tub of water a most unneces¬ 
sary evil, and, though he may stand quiet¬ 
ly enough until sufficient lather has been 
worked up to cover several rooms full of 
Persian rugs, you may be reasonably sure 
that he is but awaiting a moment of re¬ 
laxed vigilance to slip through your guard 
and spread consternation and soap over 
the landscape. 
In cold weather, the best place for wash¬ 
ing a dog is a tub, preferably supplied with 
running water, which is large enough to 
permit him to stand in it comfortably. If 
the bottom is of porcelain or other slip¬ 
pery substance, cover it with a strip of 
corrugated rubber or heavy cloth so that 
the dog will not lose his footing and suffer 
a disturbing, if not actually dangerous, 
fall. 
The water should reach nearly to the 
dog’s body and be comfortably warm. 
The room, too, ought to be at ordinary 
living temperature. Lift the dog in quiet¬ 
ly (if he is too heavy to lift you will ob¬ 
viously have to teach him to step in him¬ 
self or else resort to the decidedly wet 
procedure of washing him on a bare 
floor), and keep your hands on him to 
frustrate a break for liberty. Then take 
a sponge and soak him thoroughly first 
about the head and neck to cut off the re¬ 
treat of scouting parties of fleas which in 
times of flood seek the highest parts of the 
country, and rub in a good lather with any 
standard dog soap. Thence work down 
the body, legs and tail, alternately wetting 
and soaping, and scrubbing vigorously- 
with the tips of your fingers. Allow the 
lather to remain for several minutes, and 
then sponge it out thoroughly with clean 
warm water. 
Drying comes next, and it is not a par¬ 
ticularly easy process in the case of thick- 
coated dogs. The first step is to draw off 
the water from the tub and go over the 
dog thoroughly with the sponge, rubbing 
him well and soaking up as much of the 
water from his coat as possible. Then 
throw a big towel over him and rub vigor¬ 
ously with both hands. As soon as the 
first towel is wet take another, and keep 
it up until the entire coat is well dried. 
Then let the dog go, but do not allow him 
outdoors if the weather is chilly. 
In writing to advertisers please mention House & Garden. 
