HOME FAT-REDUCER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 34

HOME FAT-REDUCER.

WORKS RAPIDLY AND SAFELY— YOU LIKE-CUT_THIS OUK. - , For the benefit of *hoee who wisjr to reduco their weight quickly and sfttely, we give the recipe of a simple household remedy that can be obtained at a moderate cost from any chemist — viz. One half-ounce of Marmola, one ounce of fluid extract of Glvcyrrhiza 8.P., one ounco of pure Glycerine 8.P., and Peppermint Water to make six ounces in all. AlF~,fpur ingredients are cheap and wholesome.' Either mix them at home or your chemist will mix them for you. Take two teitspeonfuls after each meal and at bedtime. Follow these simple direction's and you will have the best fat-reducer that moneycan buy. It will take off the flesh at th<* rate of at least two pounds a, week without disarranging the stomach or causing wrinkles, while, best of all, no exercising or dieting is required to assist the reducing process. You can get the best results. ■ and at the- same time take things'easy aw* eat what you like.

The members of the Dargayilla Borough' Council are in a unique position. They have held their seats for some time,, and a fresh election should have taken - place in April last. However, no <;ne thought about it. so it did not come off. The result is that the present members have a new lease of two years. Tea used by the Emperor of China is prepared with the utmost care. It i* grown in a walled garden, so that neither man nor beast may be able to touch the plants.

would suggest publishing every year a list of the owners of the dogs registered, also a list of all prefixes registered. It is really a hard thing to imagine of what real use this autocratic bod> is, and what benefit the man gets who finds the money to pay secretary, treasurer, and auditors. The doggy man seems slow to bark, but when he does something will happen. —Mr J. G. Adair's bull bitch Moonstone has visited Mr R Staunton's Gentleman Jack. —Mr T. Snow's bulldog puppy Hukarere King, by Chadwell Prince from Little Lady, won two seconds and one third prize at Wellington show The puppy is only five months old, and was competing in New Zealand-bred class with well-known dogs. . — The Sydney Bulldog Club is holding a specialist show in October. Splendid prizes are offered, and it would be a good idea if some of our New Zealand breeders could be induced to exhibit. — Amongst the wins at the Christchurch show to the credit of local breeders, those of Mr E. A. Shand, second in Open Dogs and in Open Bitches, deserve special mention, particularly as in both classes he won over dogs which had taken all before them in North Island shows. —Mr J. Mauds, the well-known judge, writes as follows in the Kennel Column conducted by him rri the Sydney Sunday News: — "The entry for this year's Hawke's Bay Kennel Club show was one of the worst on record, and the local judges were not too happy in their awards. Even collies were a small show, compared with last year, several prominent breeders not- being represented. I have heard great things of the collie Roslyn Record, both from his owner, Mr Ttennie, and from other sources. Still, he had to play second fiddle to his kennel companion, Roslyn Rustic. In the bitch secHon Mr J. G. Parker, one of the oldest collie breeders in the Dominion, won right through with Mosgiel Snider, two litter sisters to the Brisbane sensational puppy Craigforth Sylvia being the runners-up. Mr John Jamieson won right through both sexes of fox terriers with Blowhard Bunkum and Bustle. These are by the ex-Sydney dog Double First. A young puppy by champion Duncraggan Dunkirk was among the winners. Mr W. A. Smith's imported dog Ducal was second in the Open Class. Glenmore Hope, another Duncraggan Dunkirk puppy, also touched money in a few classes. Miss Hunter, as usual, almost swept the boards in Scottish terriers. It is somewhat incomprehensible how Lurgan Lanty, the Sydneybred Irish terrier, won first and challenge in the Open Class, and yet his litter brother could get no higher than vh c. Last year it took me 15 minutes to decide between the two dogs in Dunedin, and I cannot possibly see how two other dogs could be sandwiched in between them. Again, I cannot reconcile the defeat of Yardley Little Demon by Whareroa (imp.), as the former is absolutely the best bitch I know of, and there are plenty that could beat the winner. Sweet Briar, the Sydney-bred bull bitch, was placed third in a class of three, and must have been in shocking form to be placed under such second-rate ones as Sheffiald Polly and Doss." — The pressnee of the Chinese Minister at the recent show of the Peking Pnlace Dog Association in the Botanical Gardens, London, added a great attraction to this charming show of Pekingese dogs. His Excellency is much interested in these quaint little docs of China, and owns some 30 of them. This breed is p-ouably the only one that has had the honour of a standard of points being drawn up by an empress, the late Dowajrer-Emprpss Tz-e Hsi of China, and the dolightful phrasing in which her Imperial Majesty describes the "desired points is worth repeating. She says :"Let the lion dog be small; let it wear the swelling cape of disrnity around its neck ; let it display the billowing standard of pomp above its head." Her Majesty was decided that its face must be black, and eyes large and luminous, and its ears set like the sails of a war junk. "Let ita forelegs be bent so that 4 it shall not desire to wander far or leave the imperial precincts. Let its body be shaped like that of a hunting lion spying for its prey. And for its colour let it be that of the lion, a golden sable, to be carried in the sleeve of a yellow robe, or the colour of a red bear or a black or a white bear, or strined like a dragon, so that there may be dogs appropriate to every costume in the Imnerial wardrobe. Let it learn to bite the foreign devils instantlj'." — A Tasmanian correspondent writes at some length on the state of the dog fancy in the tight little island at the present time, and when all is summed up it is it, question of who shall be top dog — Hobart or Launceston. The root of the trouble, however, appears to lie at the door of Ihe V P. and K.C., to which the Tasmanian Kennel Club (Launceston) ws« affiliated for 15 years. Last year the Victorian Club omitted the Tn.smi.nian K.C. from its list of affiliated clubs. On the Victorian Club being asked the reason for such omission, the main question was evaded for some seven or eight months, when an -fnswer was received to the effect- that the Tasmanian K.C. was defunct from 1902 to 1907. and the question was asked whether reports of the annual meetings for these years could be furnished. Our correspondent asserts that these reports were sent, and also the yearly bank balance, but even to this no satisfactory explanation was received, until the week before last, or after a 10 months' wait. w?en a letter came to hand that the V.P. and K.C. had decided not to have anything- to do with clubs outside t,hf State of Victoria in future. — Quite the funniest and cleverest turn by dogs that has been given in London for years was recently presented at the Palace Theatre by a troupe of four-footed comedians called Merian's Marvellous Dogs. The hand that stnge-manages the business is never seen. The dojers perform a littlp play, giving it all as if they understood the human motives hehind it. First they are seen on the outside of a country fair booth. One dog is a showman, another beats a drum, a comic poodle turns the handle of an organ, and a terrier is in lhe box office. Then up come -the villagers, marching in groups into the tent, the scenf ending in a quarrel between the keeper of the box office and a customer who presumably has no money. The second scene brings on the play — a story of love, jealousy, and murder, with a score of quaint details and episodes that evoke roars of laughter. It is a comical business altogether, very clever, wonderfully 'stagemanaged, and as nearly human ns comedians who are only intelligent dog= can make it.

CHINA'S IMPERIAL DOOX. — Pekingese. Ancient and Modem — (By Miss to. A. E. Holdsworth ) The Imperial dogs of China, <*> far as I can learn, have no authentic vaitten his-

| tory; yet there seems to be an impression * ! that Peking obtained them first from j Thibet. Everything, however, tends to show that they were always Imperial dogs, having th^ar domicile onl^r in tih«- I^king^ i Palace, but !how they got there is a mys- | tery. If they came from Thibet that might" j account for their hardiness, in contrast ' to [ the delicacy ot the Japanese spaniel ; yet j the latter breed, we are told, is an offbhoot ; frotr the Pekingese, believed to have come from ancestors procured from Peking over 700 years ago. It is acknowledged by . writers on Chinese social life that Pekingese | people, as well as the Chinese generally residing in the northern part of China, are much more hardy and robust fchar those living in the southern portion, and Doolittle, in hia "Social Life ot the Chinese,* 1 published in 1867, says this is due to the colder and more bracing climate and more ihearty and nourishing food, 'ess rice and i fish, and more wheat, corn and millet, as well as beef and mutton. , China has had for centuries images, or | representations, and bronzer of the Im- ' perial and other dogs ; and some arc conncoted with objects of worship. Doolittle | refers to the "celebrated temple located - I outside of the east gate of the city of | Fuhchan, where is an image of a large I dcg. It is currently reported that if bread, I cakes, or biscuits made of wheat flour are | placed in th-s mouth of this image of a I dog, and afterwards eaten by children, they , | will prevent or cure colic." If this dog is wi'aat is illustrated as the "heavenly dog" in the book I am referring to, then it is a terrier ; but if not, I should fancy j it might be a Pekingese, as the mouth of I such a dog as the ancient bronze one , ■ portrayed would, if on a larger scale, hold ! j many 'biscuits and colio cures without in- ' j convenience. j The bronze referred to is one purchased j by my brother at Shanghai immediately after j it had been taken from Yuan-ming-Yuan, - I the Sumnwr Palace at Peking, by our sol- j diers in 1860. It will be remembered how the i Imperial party escaped from the back of ■ the palace when the French and Euglishj | feoldiera appeared, leaving a party of'i j eunuchs and one or two mandarins to keep |an eye upon the foes. Sir Robert Douglas ; j says : "'Among Iho choice and costly articles , I collected in th-e vacated halls were fine j I specimens of porcelain from Kintechung, I jads ornaments from Central Asia's quarries, and bronzes from Soochow." One of the ' latter, we may suppose, bsing a large and handsome black one of great value, caught the c\e of an impecunious soldier, who was more ready to pocket money -than take his ' treasure home, and in return for a very j substantial sum of English cash, handed it over to my brother, who quickly shipped it j off to us in England. That >'t is meant • for a Pekingese or Chinese LioD dog is evident, but tbare is nothing about its adornments to fix its age, but- many centuries oW if possibly is. I forwarded a copy of the photograph to the secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum. South Kensington, asking for an opinion as to its j age, but he was not able to give me any : j information However, I spent an hour > in tho museum inspecting the few bronzes r plee-sd theTe, and found "that they corresponded in many ways with this ons. At I the top of the pierced lid of tho large in-cense-buvnsr, made in the form of a sarcophagus, is 'the figure of the dog *"'Fo." This is an o!d Chinese bronze also from the Summer Palace, and it was bought for £218. This dot "Fo" has his legs bent in exactly the samo way as the bronze copy given here, only the knee bones are more prominent, and he has t!he same number of toes on hind feet— namely, five. He is equally square in jaw, but slightly longer in proportion of body. Quite near this sarcophagus stands a screen with carved black wood frame and stand, supported by two J "grotesque beasts" (so they are described), • which are evidently intended Tor Pekingese dogs. These are very long in body, with iong coats., but are "slightly rounder in muzzle than the others noticed. I should like to draw attention to the very small ears on the bronze portrayed, also the short body, and am glad the Pekingese Club has now decided that the latter point is to be the correct type for breeders here to follow. Our English specimens are all far too long, yet they come from China, j or they desc-en' 1 from parents once resident there. English admirers have much to thank j the pioneers who stuck to this breed when it was little knowp an-d far from popular. [ Amongst these oniy be mentione* the Duke ot Richmond. Lord John Hay, Lady Algernon Gordon-Lennox, Mr George Brown, and ( Mr? Loftus Allen. The two latter were exhrbitng Pekingese in the early nineties, j and both have bred many excellent speci- ( mons. Tim-ta-Jen, representing the , modern English Pekingese, was bred By Mrs G. Brown, and is a winner at im portant show^s. His ancestors have trodden Chinese ground, co he may po-sibly lave the peculiarity noticed in many Pekingese imported of paying no attention to a call ' or command when once escaped from con- j finement. Peking is a 'arge place, being the political and literary cenm of an Empire containing, it is said, about one-third of the human race. It has been called a "city of magnificent distances," and everything is arranged . on a large and liberal scale, and this J ossibly accounts for the dogs having no idea ! of distance or of limiting themselves, to a turu of an hour of two; some will go quietly off for days, and! then, after their ramble is finished, will quietly return as if nothing had happened. Although J have been interested m Pekingese for over a dozen years I have never known but one with really bad temper. They are intelligent, but perhaps not quite so much as some European breeds, but as companions they are .-harmingly affectionate and very quaint, while their healthy hardiness enable* them to withstand j disease and changes of climate much better | than Japanese spaniels, who too often on , arrival here fall :11 and leave us to be- j come, as the Chinese 'ay, "guests on high, j