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YOUR DOG AND YOU 
This is the second of a series of articles designed to set forth 
the common-sense principles of dog keeping and training to 
the end that dog owners may get their full measure of satisfac¬ 
tion and pleasure from their ownership. The first article, in 
October, dealt with the selecting and purchasing of a dog. 
W HEN your dog arrives, whether you have to buy them especially for 
he be a puppy or fully grown, he him. Also a good big bone twice a week, 
will naturally feel strange in his that he may gnaw and so keep his teeth 
new surroundings. Likewise he will be in proper condition. For young puppies, 
particularly sensitive to impressions, good broth, some bread and milk, a 
doubtless because his nervous system is little lean meat, perhaps cooked cereal 
more or less on edge. The first thing now and then and puppy biscuits are 
for you to do, therefore, is to make him good. In case an older dog’s digestion 
feel at home and establish a basis of goes back on him at any time, put him 
confidence as soon as may be. Also, be- on a diet of finely chopped, raw, lean 
gin at once to show him that one par- meat, fed sparingly. In this connection, 
ticular person in the household is to look it is interesting to remember that a dog 
after him and be looked up to by him is by nature carnivorous, and that his 
as a sort of supreme counsellor and wild ancestors lived almost exclusively 
friend ~ upon flesh. Finally, keep a supply of 
Now the quickest way to a dog’s standard dog biscuits or cakes on hand, 
heart is through his stomach, idealists and see that at least one is eaten every 
to the contrary notwithstanding. So day. 
feed the new dog yourself, and feed The meal hours, place and food being 
him at regular intervals four times a thus disposed of, see that the new dog’s 
day if he is less than four months old, sleeping quarters be outside, let them be 
three times if he is between four and dry, thoroughly protected from the 
twelve and twice in case he is older weather and just large enough for him 
than a year In all cases the heaviest to be comfortable—this last for the sake 
meal should be at night. Clean, fresh, of bodily warmth conservation during 
cool water should be freely accessible to cold weather. In any case the dog’s bed 
him at all times, preferably in a china should be free of draughts under all 
or other non-metal bowl set in a regular conditions. 
place to which he will quickly become For outdoor bedding, clean straw is 
accustomed to go. unsurpassed. It must be completely 
A mistake often made is to assume changed at least once a week, and the 
that any old thing is good enough for box, kennel or other shelter thoroughly 
a dog to eat. As a matter of cold fact, cleaned and aired. If fleas become 
a dog's digestive system is just as deli- troublesome, sprinkle all the woodwork 
cately adjusted as a human being’s, and with kerosene. A coat of whitewash 
only’ a wholesome, well-balanced diet with a few drops of carbolic added two 
will keep it in proper working order, or three times a year will do much to 
Where the family is large enough and ward off disease germs which might 
the dog sufficiently small, nothing is otherwise harbor in the wood, 
better than table (not kitchen) scraps— For at least the first few days after 
steak and chop bones, bits of meat, soup, your dog arrives, do not attempt any 
green vegetables, scraps of bread, gravy, training, or more discipline than. is ab¬ 
et,. solutely necessary. Give him time to 
Never, however, give him potatoes in become thoroughly accustomed to you, 
any form, nor chicken, turkey or other the family, and his new surroundings, 
bones which are likely to splinter—the Be with him as much as possible, keep 
first because they are indigestible, and him out of mischief by prevention 
the second because their sharp points rather than cure, and study his person- 
after he has crunched and swallowed ality so that you will understand all the 
them may cause serious injury to his peculiarities of his individual make-up. 
stomach or intestines. These table leav- Finally, let me emphasize again the 
ings should be well mixed together, else strong advisability—the necessity almost 
you may find the dog daintily picking —of his learning to look upon some one 
out the meat and leaving the rest. particular person as master or mistress. 
If for any reason there is not enough With such a beginning, he will be more 
of this sort of food, then special plans easily trained and managed, without in 
should be made for the dog’s meals, any degree sacrificing his worth as an 
Well-boiled green vegetables, ditto rice, all-around family pet and companion 
and lean meat he should have even if R- S. LEMMON 
NOTES of the GARDEN CLUBS 
T HE Summit Garden Club will hold The officers of the Summit Garden 
a Chrysanthemum Show in the Club are: Miss Kate Somers, President; 
auditorium of the Young Men’s Chris- Mrs. Nathaniel B. Day, Treasurer; Mr« 
tian Association, Summit, N. J., during R. A. Wodell, Secretary, 
the latter part of October. The schedule 
will also include flowers other than f I 'HE Garden Club of Washington, 
chrysanthemums which may be in bloom A Conn., is one of the younger and 
outdoors at that time as well as those smaller Clubs. Mrs. Arthur Shipman 
grown under glass. is the President. The list of honorary 
Amateurs residing in New Jersey are members includes a number of well- 
invited to exhibit. They can secure a known architects and artists, and Mr. 
copy of the schedule of exhibits from Herbert W. Faulkner, author of "The 
Mrs. John R. Todd, Chairman of Ex- Mysteries of the Flowers.’’ The pro¬ 
hibits, 208 Summit Avenue, Summit, N. J. gram for the summer of 1920 consisted 
All of the garden clubs of New Jersey in part of an experience meeting; a tour 
have been invited to cooperate, and of the garden of one member and dis- 
their members will be entertained by the cussion of individual problems; a talk 
Summit Garden Club during the Show, on Western wild flowers and our own 
The proceeds of the Show will be do- (with photographs), by Charles E. 
nated to the “Lest We Forget Com- Holmes; the small garden, by Walter 
mittee.” Pritchard Eaton; rock gardens, by Clar- 
The Chairmen of the various com- ence Town; a lecture by Dr. Robert 
1 mittees are: Mrs. Carroll P. Bassett, Marius and a talk by Miss Ruth Nichols. 
Show; Mrs. John R. Todd, Exhibits; The Club is located in a wild, lovely 
Mrs. Allen B. Wallace, Decorations; country and the members of the summer 
Mrs. Parker D. Page, Floor; Mrs. William colony have mostly small gardens in 
j Hyde Wheeler, Publicity; Mrs. Nathaniel which they work. 
I B. Day, “Lest We Forget” Booth. Ellen P. Cunningham. 
