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Ferocious Painted Tom-Cats Sirs: In Jan. 12 issue of TIME is an article headed "Poisoned Promenade," which tells of what a hard time the authorities are having in New York in trying to prevent the dogs from killing the shrubbery in Park Avenue as they "run, sniff and soon " up and down that fashionable thoroughfare. I had a somewhat similar experience with dogs killing the shrubbery in front of my house, after the telegraph poles and trees had been removed from the street. And I succeeded in breaking up the frolic, although I didn't have to resort...
...issue of TIME is an article headed "Poisoned Promenade," which tells of what a hard time the authorities are having in New York in trying to prevent the dogs from killing the shrubbery in Park Avenue as they "run, sniff and so on" up and down that fashionable thoroughfare...
...39th Street berated old Miss Wendel, the recluse who lived with her maiden sisters in the big brick house on Fifth Avenue, for bringing her elderly poodle over to Park Avenue for airings when she had a perfectly good yard of her own in which it could run, sniff...
...true, but life is sweeter than freedom. Yet last week came news that not even apartment house walls are safe, that a dog's life between 70th and 85th Streets, not only on Park Avenue but on lowly Madison and lowlier Lexington, may be in danger at every sniff. To discourage dogs from smelling at doors and house corners, people have been sprinkling nose-outraging powders. Evidently some of this powder has contained arsenic. Several dogs have been sick. One dog died in convulsions...
...windows tight shut night & day. This shaggy old Foreign Minister Aristide Briand has done for more than a month. His bachelor bedroom is in the Foreign Office. He could slip down for the hour or two of work a day permitted by his doctors without breathing a single sniff of possibly deadly fresh air. In this manner the greatest living Frenchman fought bronchitis and won, emerged in palpably good health last week to face his enemies as the Chamber of Deputies convened for its short, pre-Christmas session...