The San Francisco call. [volume], August 14, 1910, Page 9, Image 9

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The San Francisco
Sunday
Call.
Magazine
Section
Part I
i , _ __ _ i OULD you like to be the hero or Heroine of a nice little sensation?
J\J\J It's,easy--get a dog and lead him up and down Market street.
\u25a0 \u25a0 ; " •""••• '' \u25a0 ?-v? -v Not-a-.terrier-or a, collie or a bull or a pug, nor even that
=3 comedy canine, the dachshund. . Market street is used to all these,
and will hot turn its head or lift its eyebrow. •
H--rH --r " Get- a WOODEN dbg. Get one of the strange toy dogs sawed out of
; jbbards, mounted on rollers and' colored and varnished to suit your taste. Pea
C green is a, pleasing color 'for the little dear. Attach a stout cord to your
Uvwbjode^-boiwowfaiKl : ,take him: for a stroll on a pleasant afternoon. Go
through the business ' Streets of San Francisco, and you will find that you have
done something, that attracts a crowd: -In going a block you will find yourself
r Ithe centerrof a wider interest than- you (of. course, this doesn't apply to you,
: Mrr Roosevelt, or, you, Jack Johnson) ever hoped to create.
N A wooden dog is too deep for the crowd. It becomes a marvel. And you,
as sponsor for the marvel, become a personage to be stared at, to be ques
tioned, to be followed about, to be adored from afar.
Of pourse, nobody could have reasoned this out. Like most great secrets,
its discovery : was an accident. Miss Marguerite Stedman, the discoverer,
\u25a0found -it necessary to pass through the downtown streets with a wooden dog
> tooT large -to be carried comfortably under an arm. So she led him by hia
leash, and suddenly,; without any premeditation, she found herself the center
! of a sensation. Awed at first by the attentions of a crowd of men, women and
children, "she overcame;, her embarrassment and stuck it . out in the interests*
\u25a0of scientific discovery. The wooden dog.was put through' his paces in several
streets! He was even made tojsit upright upon a garbage can at the edge of
, 'the sidewalk with ihis mistress' \vhip held threateningly above him.' He was
petted, laughed at, -cursed' and attacked by a savag* bulldog, which chewed
great scars into hisj piny back and'disaxranged one ear and the bow of green
ribbon upon his 'rigid tail. Market street had never seen such a dbg fight
Happily, a [snapshot .photographer was airing his camera An the street
when the lady appeared 'with the curious canine, and some of the things tnat
happened were preserved uponThis -negatives.^ Several pictures are" repro
rduced in; this issue. ..;/':/ ,[ '
. iMiss. Stedman found».that a\wo oden] dog : possesses these manifest'advan
tages: He is willing uo be'ledin \ the" direction that you wish to go; he does
vriot bite, bark or^ twist: his^leash "about feet, and he brings home
! no fleas, /y >.;': \u25a0/\u25a0 -. '"\u25a0\u25a0'\u25a0•; : - « •* '
. ReadjMiss-Stedman''s^s^ory,'"Escorting a Wooden « Dog Around Town,'*