TOILERS BEST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12240, 8 April 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)

TOILERS BEST.

THEY are. perchance, when star-girt night is giving Some kindly respite from the toilsome day, The sweetest hours within our lives worth living The surest freedom; we can steal away From the world of work so maddening of its clangour, And rampant with the tumult of unrest, When from the east grows up the night with langour. And day fades through the arches of the west. Ah, what a claim to think, and. pause, and wonder In these lone hours that we can call our ownTo muse with thought that lies the work-day under, Suppressed, to rise again when day has flown. Ah, come to us, O Thought, though life unaiding— • . Let us dream, though worthless in the precious span 'Tween the closing dark and lifting dawn invading With its, carea upon the stolen peace of mas. • : POTEST YOTOJG. HifegrjuiEi,

modestly listed at £50, won the first prize and championship. The price of the winner was no doubt a fair selling value in the owner's eyes and uot% protective price; while the £5000 effectually defended the winner of the second prize from changing, hands. Had an eccentric millionaire offered the £5000 no doubt the owner would have sold it without a pang. : There have been instances known where high prices have not deterred a purchaser from making a deal. Great Danes have changed hands on more than one occasion for the sum of £1500 world's record so far as dogs are concerned. The value of a dag is as the value of old china— what a purchaser will pay. With such a collection of valuable animals —and " Craft's", had a record gathering of over 1600 dogs this year—the feeding and care of the exhibits is an important and anxious undertaking. A famous firm of dog biscuitmakers had the responsibility of providing the meals for the £20,000 .worth of dogs which for three days had been showing off their paces in the Agricultural Hall. Although only one meal a day is necessary, the canine diners accounted .for over two and a-half tons of biscuits alone. The ordinary dog's menu is not suitable during a show. ; The excitement of seeing so many doggy,, friends is too much for the average exhibits neryes,, and;..the-bare staff of life

the Far East, but a large percentage die on the voyage. The famous black butterfly marking on the head is a point to look out for in this breed. The feeding is a most important point to consider. Dried and grated fish is one of the favourite dishes with the dainty Japanese. ; So small is this variety that one champion Japanese won a cup that could easily contain the winner. And Japanese spaniels are by no means the smallest of the many species of "toys." A word as to the treatment of these small dogs. Soni6 species, not originally delicate, are in danger of becoming so oh. account of the coddling they are receiving at the hands of their owners. Ladies are. '; .; THE GREATEST OFFENDERS in this respect. Mutton, chicken, and even game form an item, -in the daily dietary of some "toys." Bows and bansles decorate them, and jackets with pockets for mono--grammed handkerchiefs;' while goloshes protect them when they take an airing. Cushions of quilted eiderdown form their beds, and when they travel it is in a specially padded and heated box with a glass front, so that the pampered occupant can be examined at intervals. (, Such treatment is not real kindness, for the animals fall ready victims to diseases, especially chest diseases, which, under more natural" conditions, they might have escaped..