Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1917 — DOGS ARE REAL DEMOCRATIC [ARTICLE]

DOGS ARE REAL DEMOCRATIC

They Share With the Small Boy Entire Freedom From Snobbishness. With the real boy a dog is very much at home and entirely at its ease. Perhaps it is happiest with a crowd of boys at their play, or starting off on a holiday tramp. That man must indeed be a “grouch” who has not many times envied both boys and dog. His envy is sharpened by the reflection that the dog knows and understands the boys better than he himself could hope to do. The dog must be a bit of a tramp, perhaps even a rowdy, taking joy in the rough and tumble of lifet- Fortunately few dogs are the “worse for their breeding or capable of being spoiled by education. They are never snobs. It has often been observed — and here is a point for the consideration of the students of the canine nature and social order —that dogs seem to prefer what is worn and shabby to the spick and span. It is the same with boys, who have a hatural repugnance to anything in the way of furniture and carpets that is too fine to be used. There is no better teacher of democracy than the dog, if he has but hal/ a chance. And bpys are apt pupils.