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THE CHINA | MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1954.
BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
COWBOYS
NEED HEELS
I why
[F you've ever wondered the cowboy wears such very high heels, the reason is very simple. In the beginning, when he first went West, he could not purchase anything lower.
This was especially true in Texas, Arizona, Now Mexico where he met and Californin, and mingled with carller Spanish settlers. Some
were cowmen. Others were shoemen,
And the latter manufacturéd
riding bouts for, the former ac- cording to orders skyhigh;
heels.
ul M
The custom dated back to the days of the Conquistador, who Bred
time when It for important was considered the officers in the army to be taller than the privates, Dut alnce some of the lenders were naturally short, they had to do one of two things-put built-in: heels in their riding boots, or wear hats that were extremely hight.
LESS OBVIOUS
They decided on the heels, because it whs less obvious. In time OVEN lesser olicials were permitted to wear them.
|
ROD ROY
FALLA
BALTO
IGLOO
COMPANIONSHIP AND COURAGE-Rob Roy, shown with Mrs Calvin Coolidge, was one of the favourites at the White House during President Collidge's day. Almost every boy and girl can remember, the wistful expression of Falla, President Boosovell's Boottle, Ballo. the Biberian show dor, was famous in 1825 for his dash to Nome, Alaska, with anti-diphtheria serum. Igloo proved to be a hardy little fox terrier when he accompanied Admiral Byrd to the Arelle.
Stories
A
Was
of Famous Dogs
a
By Irma Hogal
Laddle was President Harding's Thomas Balley Aldrich, the Sul later, the customi sprend
Airedale. The Collidges had a poet, had an Irish setter by the to all persons who, under pre-
wire-haired terrier called Peter name of Triplett who watched vailing Spanish law, were al-
LMOST everyone re- Pan, an
Airedale named Rob for the postman every morning lowed to ride a horse. As a re-
members Falla, the Roy, a sheep dog and Frudence and singled out the
rejected sult the cowboy, who
settled.
Scotch terrier that Prim, a white collie who attach- manuscripts, dumping them weli urge extent, in areas
the inseparable com- cd herself to Mrs Collidge and promptly in the wastebasket, populated by the Spanish
Fax, novelist Frank Stock- speaking peoples, could get no panion of the late President was seen wherever she moved.
President Herbert Hoover had ton's dog, was a mongrel and a other kind of boot, until a long Franklin Delano Roosevelt, two dermau
Shepherds, one rascal. Fax always made a big ime later, when cheaper trans- but Falla was not the first called King Tut and the other, fuss over guests, wagging his portation made it possible for
tall and barking loudly, but es him to purchase shoes from the spaniel in the White House. Pat
Authors have been dog-lovers soon as the guests climbed the East. But by this time he was Maria Monroe, daughter of from way back. John Whittier, porch steps to enter the house, well-used to the height and President James Monroe, the beloved poel, had three Fax dropped behind and seized wanted nothing that would
had a spaniel too.
dogs, Roger, à Scolch terrier, each one by the leg in an effort bring him closer to the ground.
shepherd to speed them on their way. Vetu was President James Dick and Robin, a In- Many riding author des
Newfoundland dog dog.
William Lyon Phelps, the sist that such shoes are down-Garfeld's
this animal hud Cavalry-and
FROM EXPERIENCE critic, right uncomfortable,
auther and professor, BURROUGHS wrote, owned an Irish setter by the men say that the only practical marvellous scent that made him TOHN excuse for wearing them might|a true protector. Once Veto "In loving a dog, one is always name of Rufus, The dog bar that they hold the foot held the reins of a valuable sure of a full return." That bit a charge account at the neigh- securely in the stirrup.
horse on a rampage in the barn, of phliosophy must have come
bourhood butcher store, going and Veto kept on holding the from John Burroughs' own ex- there to pick out his own meat stamping horse until help arriv- pertence for the naturalist and and, when the butcher had had several black-and- wrapped #, bearing it proudly ed, or
On another occasion, when writer the barn caught fire, it was tans. Laddie who repeatedly home in his mouth.
EXPLORERS' DOGS Veto's barking that sounded the deserted his master for the local alarm.
butcher-not without reason. 1 XPLORERS have also had know was another of Bur their dogs. Admiral Richard
this
follow Byrd was given a amali föx torrier stray that someone abandoned on the streets. While no ont believed that a fox terrier could weather the rigours Arctic, the dog, dubbed Igloo, went with Admiral Byrd to the North Pole and back In met Igloo rode in a ticker-tape shower down Broadway In the grand
welcome-home parade. On the subsequent trip to the South Pole, Igloo was again at
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But when the cowboy hears such arguments, he just grins. For what riding authority cavalryman needs o keep his foot anchored and his body in balance while fighting ʼn mean creature that's caught at the Theodore Roosevelt had a rat end of a rope? Or must keep terrier called Scamp who waged rough's dogs and Lis body rigid, by digging his a private war on the White was a black setter who liked to heels doep into soft ground, House rats and eliminated pitch the household cats from dismounted, while roping a them one by one. President their favourite places and tako wild stallion?
Alrodales. Over the pillows himself.
Wilson
had
his
GENERAL TIN MAKES A DISCOVERY
-He Says He Got to America Before Columbus—
but I didn't dare."
of tho
and thirly nights, the whale ships sailing toward America, Admiral Byrd's side. kept swimming in westerly They were the ships belonging For sheer courage and thrill- direction. I wanted to get off, to Columbus. He was just on ing adventure, no dog story can his way (as he thought) to dia-top Stickeen, the little black dog cover America. Ho never knew that accompanied John Muir, (and neither did anyone else) the American that I had discovered it first." geologist and
Knart and Hanid agreed that dangerous
By MAX TRELL "NOW, I never told you this before," said General Tin the Tin Soldier to Knart and "Didn't the whole rind your Hanid. the shadow-children being on his back? Knorf
the turned-about names, interrupted. with "but I was the one who really discovered America."
General Tin shook his head.
mind D bit.
explorer,
naturalist. in his journeys on the
friends
have all shared the lives of great men, giving companion- ship, smiles and protection. It in fting that such dogs should be remembered too.
Kaart and Hanid both shout- natured
He was a very gentle, good- this was a wonderful story, but glaciers of Alaska,
Bort of whale. He they still couldn't quite believe These four-footed ed: "Oh no, you didn't General didn't Tini Christopher Columbus dis- bright and early one morning, i
Finally, that it had ever happened.
I General Tin wouldn't say any covered America,”
saw land ahead, I called to the more. He just stood with his Truth of the Matter
whale to stop, which he musket over his shoulder and "That's what
Then I slid off smiled. obligingly did. everybody thinks," said General Tin, "But into the water and swam to the the truth of the matter is other-
shore.
wise. I discovered Americo.” "Everything continued Gen "Anyway," said Knarf, eral Tin, "looked very wild. "America Was discovered in But I soon met some red-fficed 1492!"
men with feathers in their hair.
"That's almost five hundred 'Who are you?" I asked. They years ago," put in Hanid. "You replied: 'Indians." At once,"
weren't even born then.”
That may be" agreed General Tin, "but I discovered America just the same. In fact I discovered it in 1491,
a full year before Columbus
started. Just let me lell about it."
got
you
they
Knarf and Hanid said Would be glad to hear General Tin's story about how he dis- covered America, though they warned him in advance that they weren't likely to believe a word of what he said.
A Swim of Spain "I remember exactly happened," General Tin began.
what
It was the summertime. I was
in Spain. It was a warm day
so I decided to go swimming.
said General Tin to Kaart and
Well, my dears, I started swith General Tin crossed the Atlantic
ming out into the ocean, I
swam and I swam. By and by,
it began to get dark and I do
en a while.
cited to swim back, But I Hanid, "I knew that I was in never got back."
happened?"
America. What
'Hanlit "And just to make sure that I had discovered it first, I asked asked.
"Well," said General Tin, the Indians if Columbus and gối there I was swimming in the there yet. They said they had dark when suddenly 1 touched never Heard of Columbus. They something with my hand, It took the on long trips all felt like an enormous rock, So through America. I visited
in the darkness, climbed on Now York, and Boston, ant
it
and decided to sleep until the Philadelphin and St Augustine morning when I would walk and Kansas City and Wyoming But whon morning and the Mississippi River and
discovered to my Los Angeles and Alabama. came, astonishment, thot hadn't even visited Quebec and Mexico climbed on a rock at all. *** CityThen I took leave of my
Inttihin
returned naked
"What had you cumbeŮ JE
General Tint
"I had climbed on a whale's" "How?" asked Hanid. back," replied, General Tin. "I" "On" the whale's, back, "of was miles away from land, and course,” sald Goneral Tin. J HI the wikio was swimnding, fotmd him waiting for meu. On steadily toward the other; ade the way back in the middle of
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