Man's best friends 1307 strong pulled out of the Mechanics Building late last night after stashing away all the free chow and blue ribbons they could in two days. The occasion was the 37th annual show sponsored by the Eastern Dog Club, which attracted 80 different breeds of dogs ranging from Lhasa Apso (a Tibet terrier) to hot (peculiar American crossbreed first exhibited in 1896 by Harry M. Stevens)

Yesterday afternoon, EDC officials (Easily spotted by the Club tie -green with yellow stripes) were judging best brace and best team of various breeds. A brace is two dogs, a team four, first prize money going to the owner whose entries are most alike.

No matter how splendidly a dog may behave around the kennels, he's apt to get temperamental in the show ring. A pug, owned by a little woman from West Roxbury, has been cleaning up in recent Maine shows but evidently he tightened up the other day. When a pug in being exhibited, he's supposed to curl up his tall and according to the woman from West Roxbury, "That follow can make his tall as tight as my fist; but I can't imagine what happened to him yesterday, why, it he'd just lot it hang it wouldn't have been so conspicuous, but he stuck it right out straight, like a pointer!"

Prize money depends on the number of dogs entered in the class, but it seldom covers the cost of transporting the animals from town to town. For that reason, dog shows are a rich man's affair, and the lot of the avid exhibitor, as well as that of his pots, is not an easy one.

I suppose that's why they have such things as dog psychologists. After all, a Keeshonden who keeps chasing around wherever there's a show can't lead the normal existence of a plain old household mutt. C. E. Harbison, of Noroton, Connecticut, is a dog psychologist. He was hanging around the Mechanics Building yesterday, and it turned out that he owns eight dogs, five of whom sleep in the same bedroom with the Harbisons. Mr. Harbison has trained this brigade so well that in 15 years only four places of food have been gobbled off the kitchen table.

Mr. Harbison draws the analogy between a dog and a child. When kids are allowed to do just as they please, they become delinquents. So, says Harbison, if we didn't let dogs run loose (his never leave the house) we could eliminate rabies. Incidentally, Mr. Harbison likes to think of his dogs as members of the family, and when he takes in a dog he guarantees to protect its life, liberty, and-you guessed it-happiness.