Outing . there camethe English spaniels, com-prising the King Charles,black and tan; the PrinceCharles, black, tan, andwhite; the Blenheim, orange and white;and the Ruby spaniel, solid red. Allthese enjoyed a vogue as strong here ason the other side of the water, and eachbreed has been improved in type alongmore or less the same lines. The size has been reduced, and theyare now handier for a lady to texture of the coat is better, thecolors are more brilliant. A shorterface, longer ears, and larger andmore prominent eyes have all been ob-tained. Then the Pomeranian came in. Un-known o
Outing . there camethe English spaniels, com-prising the King Charles,black and tan; the PrinceCharles, black, tan, andwhite; the Blenheim, orange and white;and the Ruby spaniel, solid red. Allthese enjoyed a vogue as strong here ason the other side of the water, and eachbreed has been improved in type alongmore or less the same lines. The size has been reduced, and theyare now handier for a lady to texture of the coat is better, thecolors are more brilliant. A shorterface, longer ears, and larger andmore prominent eyes have all been ob-tained. Then the Pomeranian came in. Un-known on the English bench twenty-fiveyears ago, he has been adopted andadapted. He was an eighteen-pound edi-tion of the German Schwartzwold breeders brought him down inweight to below ten pounds. Theyhave also induced a more solid coloringand his alert eye and general expressionof sauciness have been retained. In lat-ter years, however, there has been a re-grettable tendency to go to extremes in. WUNG-LUNG The Pekinese is the best preserved and probably the oldestbreed on record. the reduction of weight, and Poms havebeen bred down to three and three anda half pounds. For the Pom, that istoo small. Four to six pounds is as lowas a breeder may safely go. Under thatweight there is the risk, amounting al-most to a certainty, of anemia, sterility,and a falling off in coat. The fore-going changes, however, are in typeonly, and are but the least of the changesin toy dog fashions. Within the past decade two newbreeds, each of them foreign, have cometo the fore with startling rapidity and apersistence that stamps their presentpopularity as something more than amere passing craze. These are the Jap-anese spaniels and the Pekin Palace dogs,better known as the Pekinese. Bothbreeds come to us with the stamp ofantiquity. The Pekinese is probably as old asChinese civilization. He can be posi-tively traced back to before the year 1of the Christian era. Through all the 456 THE OUTING
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