SENSELESS EXTRAVAGANCE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 746, 19 February 1910, Page 10

SENSELESS EXTRAVAGANCE.

' Mr.. Plowden waxed extremely;'indignant recently over the fact that money, poured in' for a ; wonian who kept ;two dogs; without. a license;' /She' and '-ller - mother: and 1 the" two- dogs live all in '"'one' room.*- Mr. Plowden' remarked-that- tho money'" came' "mostly/ from ' females, •'of course,"" and went on' to say -'tliat sonio women- seem more easily moved' by .the whine, of,a cur than;by■the;Tnban'of.'a; human being. ' Of oourse, any.' lover,.ofdogs will .understand', thatvwhere/a. dog is the-only friend left to a' human being, to send .'the money .for. the.lioense. is; a natural and kindly impulse.,": There 'really. does , seem '- to be - ivsoine danger of 'women, seriously .incurring Mr. Plowden's. charge, says',a London ..paper.' The .'money. , always : pours: _in,' for : cases of dogs being kept- by tho poor without licensesj. but it does not flow' nearly, so readily, for.cases ofi human, waat. and distress. At a • recent : dog": show',.. one' pet, valued at 'lay -on golden - cushions, with golden brocade hangings,, and -a .fur. : rug dyed -golden over him. It is. a common thing at ■ shows for footmen .to bring wings-of. chicken and so forth." for the favourite dogs.,.-Dogs'- clothing,.and "ornaments how cos't'.a small" fortune";.:.-But, serious lovers •of dogs do ■ not admire: this, treatment. Queen/ Alexandra, for instance,' who : knbws as, mucli about-;dogs" as any woman in England, is never found to have pampered... them in tho least. I have heard o£ one pug who regularly took> "cures"- with his.-vet.. for : iOveMat-' ing;. ■ , :