July 13, 1912 
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Romantic Origin of the Pekingese Dog. 
Pekingese dogs are the product of that 
palace life in Pekin which would seem now to 
be passing for ever into the limbo of forgotten 
things, so that the present is surely an appro¬ 
priate time for touching briefly on the history 
and character of the dog which has leapt into 
favor in the past few years in an extraordinary 
meteoric manner. 
In i860, says the Strand, the Summer Palace 
of Pekin was sacked by European soldiers, the 
first shaking-off of that extraordinary fabric of 
Eastern rule which we now see laid in the dust. 
Among the loot were eight of the Imperial 
dogs, which had hitherto never been allowed 
outside the confines of the palace, save under 
penalties that included death in various fash¬ 
ions, such as stoning or being cut into a thou¬ 
sand pieces, either of which methods had not 
unnaturally been found sufficiently drastic to 
discourage dog-stealing. 
The dogs looted in i860 are persistently 
described as being five in number, but there 
must have been eight at least. They were 
found hidden in the apartments of the Em¬ 
peror’s aunt, an unfortunate lady who com¬ 
mitted suicide on the approach of the soldiers. 
One was given to Queen Victoria, who had its 
portrait painted by Landseer; one pair became 
the property of the late Duke of Richmond and 
Gordon, and another pair were acquired by 
Admiral Lord John Hay. Admiral Oliver Jones 
(then captain) brought home one further dog, 
and a pair were secured by another officer, from 
which was bred a puppy that lived in England 
for nearly seventeen years. 
From these eight priceless creatures were 
bred all the Pekingese that England could boast 
of for another generation, and, remaining in 
few hands, they continued comparatively 
unknown. At length, however, a few 
were obtained from the palace by methods 
into which it would be impertinent to inquire, 
but it seems clear that they had begun life as 
the personal pets of the late Dowager-Empress, 
known as “Old Buddha.” How jealously 
watched they were is shown by the fact that at 
the later siege of Pekin, when the foreign 
embassies were in such great danger and were 
believed even to have fallen, the palace dogs 
were removed in the first palankeen which de¬ 
parted from Singan-fu as the foreigners entered 
the Forbidden City. 
Ladies Kennel Association of New Jersey. 
The Ladies’ Kennel Association of New 
Jersey will hold its show on Young’s Million 
Dollar Pier in Atlantic City on Aug. 2. The 
officers of the club are: Mrs. Frank Smythe, 
President; Mrs. Ralph C. Stewart, Vice-Presi¬ 
dent; Mrs. Henry Jarrett, Treasurer and Miss 
Lida R. Patton, Secretary. The judges are: 
Mrs. Arthur L. Holland, Japanese spaniels; Mrs. 
A. Hungerford, Bay Shore, L. I„ dachshunds; 
J. C. Cooper, Fort Washington, Pa., collies and 
Scottish terriers; Mrs. William Thorpe, poodles, 
black and tan terriers. Schipperkes, English toy 
spaniels, pugs, Yorkshire terriers, toy black and 
tans and Chihuahuas; M. R. Guggenheim, New 
York, bulldogs; Daniel S. Riker, New York. 
Airedale terries and fox terriers; W. Howard 
West, Wyncote, Pa., bull terriers; F. J. Bristol, 
New York, French bulldogs; A. G. Rohr, Ger¬ 
mantown, Pa., Boston terriers; Miss Lida R. 
Patton, Chelsea, N. J., Pomeranians. Griffons, 
Italian greyhounds; Dr. M. Carey Corkhill, Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa., toy poodles and maltese terriers; 
Frank Spencer Byram. Germantown, Pa., Rus¬ 
sian wolfhounds; E. B. Chase, Rodner, Pa., Eng¬ 
lish setters. Gordon setters and Irish setters; 
Walter J. Few, Westchester, Pa., beagles; B. F. 
Lewis, Jr., Lansdowne, Pa., all other breeds. 
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