| Show t Assignment America i Bromfield Dogs Give Home Lived In Look B By Inez Robb MALABAR FARM Lucas Ohio Jan 11 INS INS Malabar Malabar farm is the one home in th the nation where both family and house g guests u e s t s sare 1 are lucky to lead leada 1 a dogs dog's life No dogs dos ever er had it so good goodas 1 Louis Bromfield's Bromfield's Brom Brom- as fields field's four boxers box box- ers Mrs Bromfield's Bromfield's Bromfield's Brom- Brom fields field's fields field's c cocker 0 eke r vs spaniel and Ellen El- El len Jen Bromfield's Bromfield border collie because because because be be- be- be cause his ances- ances Inez Robb tr try obviously borders on everything every everything everything thing Mr B. B who is slightly in the haid bald about dogs has built one of the most IlL luxurious urious dog doghouses doghouses doghouses houses in America It consists of the handsome room 20 manse six baths in which the family and guests are tolerated by the dogs Heaven help the n novice vice guest guest who expects the dogs to get up and give him the best chairs or sofas in the living room The dogs do it with grace and goodnature goodnature good goodnature nature but the master finds such guests Intolerable boors unfit for civilized society or a return in invitation invitation invitation in- in to Malabar 70 Lap Dogs Inexperienced guests are sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times disconcerted too by the fact that the boxers average weight 70 pounds operate in the house under the impression they are lap dogs doss But guests who hope for a are re return return re- re turn visit had better pin on their pans a look of unalloyed Joy when Folly Rex and Baby simultaneously simultaneously start scrambling into his lap Of course there arc are guests who under the circumstances dont don't want to come back This is apt to include individuals who have been brought up under the impression that a dogs dog's place is not in the dining room But since the dogs accompany Mr B. B everyplace they also come cometo cometo cometo to the table Usually they lie placidly under the table on the feet of the thc master and the guests However if one of the dogs gets restless he is apt to put his head headin in the diners diner's lap This can be bean bean bean an unnerving experience to the uninitiated Boxers are born with morose and misanthropic faces and age ase does not improve the ex ex- Furthermore boxers boxers boxers-at at least the B r rom o m f i e 1 l d boxers when boxers when pleased with life are apt to smile winsomely at people Some Sonic people can take it some cant can't For when a boxer smiles he hooks hooles his upper lip Just behind the middle eight incisor or molars in his lower jaw Frighten the Timid This imparts to the boxer a A. hungry hungry and and in the Ute eyes of the nervous nervous-a a mean look I have seen timid folks at Malabar feed their entire dinners to one of the boxers under the impression impression im hn im- im that this look indicated I intense hunger and dislike instead of devoted friendship Rex the youngest biggest and handsomest of the four has just conferred new honors on the thc clan Bromfield He has posed as the first dog of distinction When his master refused to pose as a man manof manof manof of distinction clutching a whisky glass in his hand the advertising firm settled for or Rex Since Sinco Rex is a natured good-natured dog dog- and I do not wish to put the Ute V v C T U on his tail I hasten to add that he is addicted only to milk and has worn a white ribbon since birth Oddly enough the boxers bring up the question What is the ideal idea garb for a Malabar visitor I have given this considerable thought over the years and have come to the conclusion that the perfect raiment winter or summer hot or cold for man woman or child is a or slicker This has to do with the boxers They are the dogs ever invented Since one lives in such intimate contact with boxers at nl Malabar something waterproof is the best bet for steady round- round the-clock the wear Visitors especially the arty ones and interior decorators never neverfail neverfail fail Cail to remark on the lived in look the Ute house has acquired in only ten years of residence It may take a heap olivin in other communities to make a house a ahome ahome ahome home but at the a apack apack apack pack of boxers can age one in the wood faster than any other force known to man The Aged Look LookA A Aye y year e a r after the Bromfield family moved into the home a visitor said to Mrs Bromfield I dont don't know how you oU do it my dear The house looks so aged Why it looks at least a hundred years old How do you do it 7 At that moment the children burst into the room to tell mummy that the boxers were ripping a SQuare yard vard of yarn varn out of the hooked rug rug in her h-er room Simultaneously Simultaneously Simultaneously Simul Simul- Mr B. B mixing drinks at a large improvised bar upset the whole kit and with ice scotch soda water olives and invectives flying in all directions |
