Invite Me, Invite My Dog

1901

Every fashionable woman has now a tiny toy dog, which she usually carries about everywhere with her under her arm. These small animals, says Lady Violet Greville in London Graphic, have taken the place of the dwarfs, monkeys and spaniels of the fine ladies of past centuries. They cost a great deal of money and are generally very ill tempered. One wonders what the ladies' maids and footmen, whose business it is to look after these little darlings when their owners cannot have them with them, think of the new craze. I know people who never visit in country houses where their dogs are not invited.