CREAMY SURF

NZ Truth, Issue 1199, 22 November 1928, Page 19

CREAMY SURF

ALL stripey our surf suits were '•** last summer, but this year we can go beach-combing m 'most anything.. Very colorful are the little surf suits shown above, and if New Zealand Weather* doesn't for ;once do the gallant thing we'll emigrate. ,' • . ' , * If 111 MlilllllUllillllllllllltiiliilllltf lllilllllltlllUM IlllMl IC IIIIIIIM IMltlllt It 111 lllltlllMin rival her own orange fluffiness, and sees already a -distinct likeness to their pedigree father. . > ,Nor have these distinguished visitors arrived m any undignified way into the world. Their mother had the best of care and attention, including a whiff of an anaesthetic, and the birth of the new arrivals was received with much enthusiasm by a dog-loving world. . . Little Orange Lady, having done her duty to the country and her owner m completely satisfactory fashion, will be fed on the fat of the land for a month. Down, m the yard ar-e dogs of all descriptions, all filled with unbounded enthusiasm for .silk-stockinged ankles. A. big Airedale insists on licking the faces of. lady callers, a., bulldog smiles affably, and a fox terrier invites the Indies to join m a rat-huntirig expedition. One v dog, which has taken a leading part m a motor accident, limps up and extends. a paw wrapped up m plaster of- Paris. Another,' whose front teeth are decayed, gives a convincing imitation of a much-annoyed dog when the'chisellsused on his molars. / Here, too, "every care and consideration" is the rule, and cocaine injections or anaesthetic quite m order, though .one ■, won't say definitely that that isn't because a bulldog,, if put to it, could remove his pound of flesh from the .dentist's anatomy. ' One lone and -lorn Persian , cat, whose coat isn't looking all that it might because she was top closely Eton-crop-ped for her spring suit, lives m a wired cage ..high up , a:bove the, dog's quarters, and looks disdain at' them out of beautiful topaz eyes. • She is given lier airing every morning, all the dogs being kept behind barbed wire, where they can' only look and long, .._,'■ ' ' ' . , '