AS IT HAPPENS—

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22355, 19 March 1938, Page 21

AS IT HAPPENS—

A new kind of dog has been shown recently in England, which was unknown before. It is railed the rottweiler, and is really a German dog known for generations on the Swiss border. There it was used to help drovers in transporting large herds of unruly cattle considerable distances to market. The dog is rather more than two feet high at the shoulder, and is remarkably intelligent. Indeed, it has been, trained lately to help Continental police and soldiers. It is a good dog for leading and guarding the blind. The dog is strongly built, with a short tail and a short head. The ears hang down; the black coat, with rich tan markings, is short and glossy.

The Highland Kilt Not only is the kilt a more modern dress than many of its wearers realise, but it seems posable that it might never have become so popular but for persecution. According to authorities, “the kilt divorced from the plaid is a comparatively modern evolution of convenience

dating from the early part of the eighteenth century.” After the rebellion of ’45 the most hated of all the various enactments against Highlanders was that directed to the “national dress.” It was said that these sumptuary rules •were the most difficult for Highlanders to swallow of all the repressive enactments, and they were also those which most surely defeated their own object; they had all the faults of religious intolerance, and it was perhaps little exaggeration to say that “they surrounded the Highland dress with a sort of sacred halo.** It became more or less a {mint of honour to evade the law as far as possible. “Instead of the prohibited tartan kilt some wore pieces of a blue, green, or red doth or coarse camblet wrapped round the waist and hanging down to the knees.” Some sewed up the kilt between the thighs so as to give the appearance of trousers or breeches. far any case the comparatively modern, kilt acquired an importance it might never have known if there had been no persecution. *