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Show Dogs5 Love and Loyaliv in Their Noses EMOTIONS depend upon the senses. It's a lot easier to fall in love with a pretty girl than v.'ith a homely one and a pleasant voice -will win a husband, while a strident voice will frighten men away. But the pretty girl sometimes forgets that it is the appreciation ap-preciation of beauty in the eye of the man that results In her ewift choosing, the girl with the soft voice does not always al-ways rememher that it is the musical ear of the wooer which brings him to her side. Yet this quite obvious truth has been brought info sudden attention by the discovery that a dog's loyaliv to his master is absolutely dependent upon his sense of smell. If there is any injury to his smelling powers, no affection seems to he possible. Experiments carried on by Drs. Boffi and Schiff, and recently re-cently corrected and amplifipd by Professor Jastrow, of tbe University of Wisconsin, in connection with his study of the dreams of the blind and of the deaf, show that canine loyalty is a development, of the dog's sense of smell, and, by . Inference, a huyband's loyalty to a pretty woman is the de-r. de-r. Great Britain nights Reserved. i yelopment of his sense of seeing. And the dog remain? more loyal than the husband, not because they are more faithful beasts, but because a man can't lose his characteristic smell, while a woman can (nnless she takes the trouble to avoid it) lose her visual beauty. In this connection it is well to point out that dogs with a very highly specialized sense of smell, for example, pointers, have a greater sense of affection for their masters, than the Indian wolf-doc, in which the primitive sense- of smell 13 very weak and which is almost entirely lacking in affection, affec-tion, but, like the Arctic huskies, submits to being harnessed and marie to work solely becaus..- the hand that rules is also tho hand that feeds. At tho opposite extreme dogs In which the sense of smell Is small, dogs which hunt by sight, such as greyhounds, are notoriously indifferent to (heir masters. They can recognize recog-nize them, by their keen sense of sight, as thoroughly as can dogs of the other type by thn sense of srneil, but their recognition is not as profound, nor their emotion as keen. A dog loves through his nose. |