Show few by ERNEST CAMP JQ iia in a city where children are so BO scarce and where human beings display so little love tor for one another it Is not surprising that people should take their pets seriously denied other outlets affection is if lavished upon dogs and cats wealthy new yorkers especially die display la in some cases an almost incredible devotion to pets perhaps the most lam ous example Is the poodle that has a playground all its own A he belongs to the wealthy dog walk and eccentric wendell family only one member of which is now living an elderly spinster in the gloomy old mansion looking down upon fifth avenue she ehe lives a secluded lue life it Is said bald that her bedroom contains two beds with silken covers one Is tor for her the other for the poodle every day the dog la Is taken tor for a walls walk in a small courtyard adjoining the house A solemn household rite this Is guarded from the public gaze by means meana of a high wall repeated efforts have been made by business interests to buy the plot of 0 ground the family la Is said to have been offered as much as lor for it but n no th the burp must have hla his playground W W at hartsdale Hart sdale N Y near the metropolis la Is the hartsdale Hart sdale canine cemetery here wealthy and sentimental people have expended fortunes upon tombstones tor for their departed pots peta monuments Iro towering bove above other for poaches pooches costly marble shafts to Is the monument that the M F walsh family of 0 mount vernon vemon N Y erected above the grave ot of their three mexican chihuahuas and two water nials A marble arch marks the last resting place of two Pe kinese guarding the cemetery entrance Is a magnificent memorial to the war dog placed there by popular 40 W 0 ofa mourners kneel weeping at graves of cats and dogs piled high with costly i flowers and toys tombstones Tombe tones bear epitaphs a expressing love and undying sorrow and the hope of a reunion in the hereafter ter between dog and master one riis new york woman has vial visited ted the graves ot of her two dogs doga colonel and tige every sunday tor for fifteen years she has an especially billt wicker chair that per mite her to sit tor for hours looking bor row tully fully at the th grave erate ono one woman the late christine nor man wealthy actress in making her will provided tor for perpetual maintenance i of the grave of yo san her japanese poodle and leave a dime to her invalid mother i 0 4 but the most touching dog story I 1 ever heard took place in ray my own experience I 1 was working on a weekly news i cpr paper in n monroe georgia chamber of commerce please note I 1 hobo was a collit and the kind ot 1 dog that makes a lella fella think more of dogs doga and less of men A real pal I 1 but one da day y hobo frolicking 9 with ih a neighbors child bit a youngster r frantic i parents insisted that the animal be killed and the head examined tor for rabies the last I 1 could no more have killed of hobo hobo than I 1 could have cut off my own right armi annil asked a policeman to do it gun in hand he walked out beyond the city limits hobo frisking at his heels five minutes later I 1 was hunched over my typewriter very much depressed over the loss of my pet I 1 was having a struggle grinding out a story I 1 fidgeted and fidgeted I 1 looked up tip there outside the glass door was hobo his head cocked to one side with that quit quizzical cal perky expression that only a dog lover knows he had planted his forepaws tore paws against the door pleading to be let in the matter here he seemed to whine ive never been treated this way before I 1 pretended not to see A little while later the man with this the badge reappeared and hobo was waa led off again this time tor for good and I 1 grew furiously urious ly busy at that typewriter writing something that matter something I 1 even read |