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MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1934.
DISAPPEARING DOGS OF WAR
FIGHTING BREEDS NOW
DRAWING-ROOM PETS
FEW FEEBLE
SURVIVORS
(By J. Wentworth Day.)
There is a present-day lament for this march to India, the King of ing a fog-bound aerodrome an in-the dachshund. His lovers com-Albania sent him a present of a dog
unusual bigness. strument will pick up his position by plain that he is a miserable draw of wireless telephone.
This is true. 1 with his appearance, He will be ing-room pet. directed over the centre of the acro-have never seen a dachshund bite a bears, then wild boars, and after- drome.
rabbit, But he was bred to bite wards deer to be turned out before
Delighted he ordered
Then he will be told exactly when badgers. Hence his name. "Dachs" him, none of which, however, he
to throttle back his engines and when to flatten out to land.
In reality the man in the control tower will take charge of the machine.
Your Daily Smile.
is German for badger and, "hund" condescended to notice.
is the basis of our English word off "The high-spirited prince, pro-
hound.
voked at this indolence in a crea- The dachshund was bred with ture of such dimensions, ordered ahort legs, a long body, incisor teeth him to be put to death. Fame car- and trap-like, pointed jaws in order fried the tidings of this event to the that he might follow the badger into King, who sent him another, with the farthest, darkest subterranean a request that he should not be tried caverns of his sett and thence drive on such smalt deer,' but on a lion A Case in Point
him forth Into broad daylight and or an elephant; adding that be had "Talk about the old joke of the the iron tongs of the badger-digger had only two, and if this also were absent-minded professor," said a job which is performed in Eng-jalain there would remain none other. Jones In the club the other day, and by miserable but Hon-hearted Alexander did not delay, and speedi- "why, a friend of mind is the most terriers. absent-minded person you
ly saw a lion overpowered. He then
ever Here we have a Aghter fallen. ordered an elephant to be produced met,"
The drawer of badgers has become and was never more delighted with "Well," said Smith, "I suppose it in lowly squire of dames. And the any exhibition. doesn't matter so long as it doesn't same with the Bedlington. The hurt him or anyone else."
"The dog, with his body all brie- Bedlington was bred to kill rats, toting with horrid hair, opened the Jones smiled quietly.
course rabbits. He was the miner's attack with a roar like a poul of "Well, it hurt him to-day," said dog, born and bred on Jones, "He swallowed sixpence, hillsides of Durham, nurtured in elephant, now on one side and now the bitter thunder, and, rising against the and gave the bus conductor ahovels. reared at the knees of on the other, and combating or re- cough-drop for his fare."
scrambling children in fetid back treatang as he found it necessary, kitchens, petted by the family, fed in the most artful manner, by us an the best while the children aiduously wheeling round, he at last "My wife can be an angel when starved. A ereature of bone and brought him to the earth, which was
AND MINE!
"Mine, too--any time, now."
The China Mail ly begun some weeks ago, and
including the "six-penny dinner" she wants to be," on the first Sunday of every Hong Kong, Monday, January 15, 1934, month, is going strongly, and
there is no reason to doubt that The Very Idea! the Workers' Clubs will soon be Housewife: "This morning The simi-husband threw a biscuit at me. German Workers' Clubs, prospering concerns.
lar After Work Associations of biscuit I made myself." Fascism have certainly conferred Neighbour: "The idea! It might There was so much to criticize Immense benefits upon the have killed you." in the earlier stages of the Na-Italian working man. They pro- tional-Socialist
be
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muscle. steely and strong Northern granite which [birth.
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the shaken by his mighty fall.”
hia To-day in Slavonia, in the hid- den hill valleys of Transylvania, and: He was the minor's pride. On even as far north as the dim, scar- my Sunday afternoon when, scrubbed red forests of Bialysok--the
last A but still sweating, his sallow-faced haunt of the Auroch, the mighty masters gather for those coursing European bison-nuch dogs linger. meetings at miserable rabbits-the They are not authentic. They have Allcars of the plthead-the Bedling-no genere
names, But in their
ton and the whippet are kings of martial, murderous blood runs the movement in vide him with the means of com- Correct
the day. Their masters work in flame of danger that made the old Germany that it is pleasant to fortable relaxation, of physical "What does an old maid say at the bowels of the black carth for six war dogs of Greece the terrors of turn to a phase of it which can recreation of cultural entertain- the end of her aightly prayers?"
days of the seven. On the seventh a continent, These are the descen- unreservedly commended, ment, and in some cases with the "Ah, men!"*
they lay their grimy hearts at the dants of the players of men.. even though it is unlikely to be advantages of higher education.
feet of a dog. imitated in Britain. In the new!"No country except Italy," de-The Prompter Fascist and Hitlerite systems/clared Dr.Ley, "ean show any-
But to-day the Bedlington has
The Warrener's Dog every producer is regarded as "a thing but scraps" of recreational ask Miss Frivvell to be your wife?" Long-legged, woolly, almost silver-heatha by Thetford and Brandon, Robson: "What prompted you to come South and become fashionable. And in Norfolk, on the high bleak "member of the State." as dis-organization. To each country Hobson:" think Miss Frivvell grey, rat-tailed, nondescript, for where the stone curlews whistle, tinct from a mere citizen: undļits, taste. Englishmen would prompted me more than in the words of Dr. Goebbels, "Anot be grateful to the statesman elec."
anything there is nothing quite like him, this where the brecks 'llo empty under-
creature bred of two centuries State which is really bound up who set
of the moon, and the still firs whisper out to organize their
sweat and northern solitude, and identical with the people can pleasures for them.
has in the creeping wind, you will find They pre-
become a degenerate of the show at lonely fint-built farms the heira never leave the people to itself." fer to enjoy themselves in their
bench. In other words their
An ornament of female of, other gladiatorial dogs-the recreation awn way. There are, of course,
Brompton-road must be organized for them
shoppers. AR thousands of working-mens' clubs
We Norfolk warrener's dog. mourn him and we lament the folly, well as the conditions of their up and down the country.
Gaunt, grey creatures, almost of There is no greater fool the bone of a deerbound, the rakish- ness of a lurcher, the ferocity of an
Facts You Did Not Know.
But One of the largest companies in of men. I work. Accordingly a movement they found and run them them-the motion picture Industry in than the show bench fan.
has been launched for covering selves. And there also still sur-Japan will extend its activities to the countryside and the towns vives a sneaking affection for the Manchuria, for both the production as a fighting dog, even as I think there are more than fifty left in the with Workers' Clubs. They are lilt of an old song of which the nd exhibition of pictures.
in all cases to be the best avail-last line runs: "There's able buildinga. Here and there.place like home."
it seems, a Marxist House which
|served much the same purpose Changing Industry, junder the former regime, but
no
#
I like to think of the Bedlington old fighting dog of war, I doubt if
of the lurcher, the Staffordshire country. They are servants of none- bull-terrier, the great Molossian but their masters. Balanced by counterweights, abound, the lion dog, and the Belli-the sagacity of human beings.
Yet they have- Įstore window sash has been invented cor-the ancient dogs of war such that can be raised and pushed aut as the Pannonian, the Magnesian,
(Continued on Page 103. of sight over a window to afford the Etolian, the Segurian, the Spar- Jaccess to the window's contents. tan, the Cretan and the Umbrian.
These were the old dogs of war. or-They were trained to fight in the
They would tear!
2
KING DRIVES HIS OWN TRAIN
On Footplate.
Sofia.
which was dismantled in the first fury of revolution, is to be re-employment, which the Ministry of The figures of the distribution of constituted, re-equipped, and re Labour has compiled from the inganized a club the members of which van of armies.
A French physician has named. In Berlin it is expected surance books returned last July.will breed cats having a strong pro-out the throat of a man, face the that the fine building where the are fresh evidence of great and ap- pensity for catching rats to reduce marching ranks of Hadrian's ele- Dons Overalls For Spell Prussian Diet sat is to be transparently permanent changes in the the number of rodents at a seaport, phants, charge the phalanxes of formed to club usese sign at employment capacity of Britain's once of the decay of Parliamen-principal industries.
Roman spears or leap, bloody-mouth- tary activity and the advance of there is statistical proof of the people already housed and the ed, on the menacing swords of the
Once again the Socialist side of the Nation-more rapid expansion of Industry equipments of urban life in ready!
cohorts of Charlemagne. al-Socialist programme. The ob-in the South and the Midlands than supply, a superior attraction. Pro-
It is now revealed that after his ject of the Clubs is to provide in the North. Londen is now by a ximity to: London's vast market, To-day their race is dead.
The "Coloured" Dog meeting with King Carol ou the wholesome entertainment either long way the area of the largest lower rates (outside London), and bulldog the bloodhound and the garia drove for part of the way the The Danube recently King Boris of Bul free or at a minimum cost. Pre- amount of employment in the freedom from trade union restric-days of the seven.. On the seventh special train which was taking him liminary expenses are to be met country, As lately as six years tions out of the funds scized from the ago, the North-Western area, in- reasons for the choice of Southern. The heat of them may be found
have been advanced as hybrid handings down.
back to Sofia.. Marxists and destined, according cluding the cotton and coal trades sites for industry. Doubtless all in Staffordshire, in the heathy hol-retired to his saloon, threw off his Without a word to his staff he to the confiscators, to support of Lancashire and Cheshire, stood three have had their influences; lows of Cannock Chase and about general's uniform and decorations, strikes which under the Nazi sys-equal with London; but London has and the climate also may have been the grim slag heaps, that lie at the and emerged in overalls. tem will not be tolerated. The gone rapidly ahead, while the an nerves of the people are to be North-West has made much slower though all: the North has not the fight, secretly on Saturdays and Sun-for things mechanical, were not al- attraction southwards, al-mouth of mines, they still breed and The staff, knowing his fondness sustained, Herr Hitler has said, progress. The most depressed in-reputation of Manchester or of days, a small, brindled, stocky, prick together surprised. by the new indoor and outdoor dustries are situated mainly in the Glasgow. Yet something seems un-eared warty type of bull terrier Club life; and, being himself a North and in South Wales-the coal explained, for there is a tradition which they call a "coloured" dog.
After driving the train from passionate devotee of music, he industry, the heavy fron and steel of Industry in the North which He is actually not a separate distance of about 75 miles-the Rustchuk to Gorna Orehovitza-a intends that the best artists and trades, shipbuilding, and the tex-directors of enterprise are not like breed, but the real authentic foot-King retired to bed-Reuter, musicians shall provide enter-tile trades-and no one in those in-ly to underrate. But the geographic type of the old English bull terrier. tainment to the worker-members dustries will be prepared to admit redistribution of industry is only And like all good root types he is for one month in the year the that they are for ever doomed-to one of several changes of enormous not bred or perpetuated by fancy artists themselves being under their present slackness. Their re-significance. There has been in re-show bench people, but endures, by SMUGGLERS DISCARD State control as members of thevival, would, of course, do more cent years a startling alteration in steady breeding from cottage to Chamber of Culture, Camps and for employment in the North than the proportions of workpeople in cottage, from village to village. He week-end tours will be arranged, could be measured by the number manufacturing industry, in build the father in history of the pre- and no sort of class distinctions of their own workpeople. A multi-ing, in transport, distribution and sent-day bull terrier as, we know it. are to be allowed. This recreatude of ancillary occupations would macellaneous services. The total Perhaps the bloodbound goes tional system has so far only "re- revive with them. These posalbi-number of workpeople" "in" mann furthest back of all to thesá öld ceived its Statutes." At present lities must be taken into account facturing industries has increased roots of the Bghting, dog the dog ith merely being talked about, when tracing the tendencies of mo- by rather more than 5 per cent, that was a gladiator, for the blood- But a preliminary boosting" is dern Industry; but they do not alter during the last ten years but in hound has the heavy jowl, the swing part of the new statesmanship, the fact that the newer and lighter building, in transport and distribe- Ing dewlap, the death-lit era of the First there are speeches, an- manufacturing trades are being tion and in miscellaneous services ald Koloasian mound. I think he island are adopting the French Tri nouncements, constituent meet- established in many areas that the numbers have increased by his spiritual descendant, Ings, formal inaugurations; then, have no industrial history. Serious from 10 to over 50 per cent Be Bloodhound Legend when the popular mind has be though housing dimculties have vices will increase as society be
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Bootleggers, schooners, engaged
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