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House 
Your Housewarming 
lasts the winter through where you “request the 
presence” of MONARCH Metal Weather Strip 
in your home. 
No matter how costly your woodwork may be. there 
is a natural weathering process that “seasoning” can¬ 
not control. Windows and doors that fit perfectly when 
new will shrink and swell during different seasons, 
leaving cracks between the sash and frame that aggre¬ 
gate in each case an opening equal to more than six¬ 
teen square inches. 
This hole, four inches square, in every window is a 
handicap on the heating plant that cannot be overcome 
by excess radiation, but only by excess consumption of 
coal. 
Monarch Metal Weather Strips completely seal these 
cracks between sash and frame. They keep out cold 
and dampness, keep your home warm and cosy within, 
and standardize the temperature of the entire house at 
a 20 to 40% reduction in coal consumption. 
There is a specially-designed Monarch type of strip for 
every kind of outside opening. Self-adjusting to shrink¬ 
ing and swelling of sashes and frames. Monarch’s first 
cost is its final cost. 
Look up Monarch Weather Strips in your telephone 
directory and let our licensee tell you more about them. 
Or if Monarch is not listed in the book write us direct 
for additional information. 
Monarch Metal Weather Strip Co., 
4111 Forest Park Blvd., St. Louis, U. S. A. 
"Weather strips are 100% fuel conservation.' ’ 
U. S. Fuel Administration, 
P. B. Noyes, Director of Conservation. 
August 23, 1918. 
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A Super-Dog With a Primitive Streak 
{Continued, from page 64) 
ful, alert fellow with more than a trace 
of the primitive in appearance and 
character. One can easily picture him 
as the hero of a dog story—the kind 
where Duke rescues Little Martha from 
the burning house or Small Willie from 
the hole in the ice, or runs away into 
the forest and becomes the all-wise 
leader of a pack of one hundred and 
nineteen wolves, one of them a small 
albino female with a chronic limp in 
her left hind leg, who can do just any¬ 
thing she likes with him. Only the 
man or woman who names a police dog 
Duke commits a crime against self- 
respect and insults, the breed. 
Chats A b 
A LTHOUGH a good bit of attention 
has been paid of late to what is 
• termed the Belgian Police Dog, 
this offspring of the war is hardly the 
typical canine product of Belgium. 
What attracts the notice of the Ameri¬ 
can visitor in Belgian city or country¬ 
side is not the Griffon and certainly 
not the police dog, but the hard-work¬ 
ing Chien de Trait or draught dog. 
Cuvier, the great anatomist, once said 
that the dog exhibits the most complete 
and useful conquest that man has made. 
One recognizes this when one sees these 
draught dogs at their toil in summer 
and winter. A team of two of the 
finer specimens pulling their load of 
milk in shining brass cans is a worth¬ 
while sight, and no doubt the dogs are 
often well cared for. It is the lesser 
specimens, the old and sad dogs, that 
one pities. Sometimes they are hitched 
beneath horse or ox-drawn carts. Why, 
heaven only knows. Their pulling weight 
is negligible in such a place and since 
they are tied they cannot guard their 
masters’ property. 
Of late, owing undoubtedly to the 
efforts of the American and English 
visitors and residents, there has been 
more attention paid to these dogs. 
When the writer lived in Belgium he 
endeavored to obtain the good offices 
of some Deputies to see that laws were 
framed which made it a punishable of¬ 
fense to neglect these chiens de trait. 
Little came of it at the time. The 
politicians explained that it would 
probably antagonize the farmer and 
peasant voters. The draught dog to the 
small proprietor in Belgium is what the 
single mule or horse is to the small 
Southern farmer here. Robbed of his 
mule what can he do? To insist that 
every draught dog in Belgium should 
conform to the standards laid down by 
the authorities would be to remove half 
the dogs that bring vegetables and milk 
from Flemish farms to the towns. 
This same agitation has borne indi¬ 
rect fruit. There is now a National 
Society for the Amelioration of the Bel¬ 
gian Draught Dog and the prospects of 
the respectable working dog in Belgium 
are better than they ever were. 
The draught dog is a very handsome 
animal when he is up to standard. He 
is a strongly built, cobby beast whose 
ancestry points to mastiff and Great 
Dane blood. He should stand from 
27" to 31" at the shoulder and his 
minimum weight should be a hundred 
and twelve pounds in dogs and a hun¬ 
dred pounds in females. As he is a 
pulling animal his shoulders and chest 
have to be broad and his loins broad, 
short and well muscled. 
The coat should be short for pref¬ 
erence and either wiry or smooth. Fawn 
or brindle with black mask is the fa¬ 
vorite color. The good specimen is 
always docked and carries a tail of 3" 
only. The ears are never cut and should 
be of medium size. The eyes are large, 
dark and intelligent. The legs naturally 
are very important. They are well 
boned, straight and strong with power¬ 
ful, muscular thighs. The draught dog 
has a large head with well developed 
skull, jaws of equal length and a fairly 
short muzzle. 
The Flemish are beginning to appreci¬ 
ate that the English-speaking visitors 
to their land stop and admire the well 
out Dogs 
kept dog and frown at the small, weary 
beast who conforms to none of the 
above descriptions. 
When the heavy harness is taken 
from the chien de trait he becomes a 
watch dog. The carefully tilled little 
farms of his master, open for the most 
part to the road, would often suffer 
were it not for his vigilance. 
Like many other workers, Sunday is 
the draught dog's day of rest. He 
comes to the door of his barn and looks 
up and down the paved street and pon¬ 
ders on how best to spend his holiday. 
He certainly deserves it. To see three 
or four children driving one heavy cart 
pulled by a fifty-pound dog is not a 
pleasing sight to you and me. Thank 
heaven we havn’t it here. In England, 
Queen Victoria abolished it in the fifties. 
The Pekingese 
It is doubtful whether any breed of 
the small dogs has held pride of place 
more firmly than the Pekingese. The 
pug—that dwarfed and debased offshoot 
of mastiff stock—has gone. Other toy 
spaniels have had their day, but the 
Peke remains. Of course, it is easy to 
see why. He is a good little fellow, 
gentle, docile. To breeders he is a good 
investment because his puppies are 
healthy and true to type. This may be 
because they are wrapt in the mists 
of antiquity so far as origin is con¬ 
cerned and do not throw back to other 
breeds. Legends have grown up around 
them. They were distinct types when, 
in A. D. 624, a pair was sent from Con¬ 
stantinople to a Chinese Emperor. 
Her Imperial Majesty Tsi-Hsi found 
it not beneath her dignity to write about 
their good points and their needs. 
These are some of the pearly sayings 
of an Empress about the Pekingese: 
“Let its eyes be large and luminous. 
Let its ears be set like the sails of a war- 
junk. Let its nose be like to that of 
the Monkey God of the Hindus. Let 
its forelegs be bent so that it shall not 
wander far or leave the Imperial pre¬ 
cincts. Let its body be shaped like 
that of the hunting lion spying for its 
prey. And for its standard of pomp 
(you remember the Belgian chien de 
trait is allowed only 3" of ‘pomp’), 
let it rival the whisk of the Tibetan’s 
Yak. 
“Let it be dainty in its food,” she 
commands, “so that it shall be known 
for an Imperial Dog by its fastidious¬ 
ness. Sharks’ fins and curlews’ livers 
and the breast of quails; on these may 
it be fed. And for its drink, give it 
the tea that is brewed from the spring 
buds of the shrub that groweth in the 
province of the Hankow, or the milk 
of Antelopes that pasture in the Im¬ 
perial Parks. . . . And for the day of 
sickness, let it be anointed with the 
clarified fat of the leg of a Sacred 
Leopard, and give it to drink a Thros¬ 
tle’s egg-shell-full of the juice of the 
Custard Apple in which have been dis¬ 
solved three pinches of Rhinoceros 
Horn, and apply to it piebald leeches. 
“So shall it remain; but if it die . . . 
Remember thou, too, art Mortal.” 
And the breed has survived even that! 
But the Dowager-Empress impressed 
sterner qualities on it. One is cheered 
to read that she also wrote: “Let it 
bite the Foreign Devils instantly.” 
Wyndham Martyn. 
