Concerning Cats 



his great-grandparents Perso and Beauty, — all regis- 

 tered cats. On his father's side a pedigree of three 

 generations can be traced. One of her more recent 

 importations is Lord Gwynne's mate, Lady Mertice, 

 a beautiful long-haired cat with blue eyes. Other 

 famous cats of hers have been Bettina, Nora, Doc, 

 Vashti, Marigold, Grover, and Wendell. 



One of Mrs. Locke's treasures is a bona fide cat 

 mummy, brought by Mrs. Locke from Egypt. It has 

 been verified at the Gizeh Museum to be four 

 thousand years old. 



It is fully twenty-five years since Mrs. Locke began 

 to turn her attention to fine cats, and when she im- 

 ported her first cat to Chicago there was only one 

 other in the United States. That one was Mrs. Edwin 

 Brainard's Madam, a wonderful black, imported from 

 Spain. Her first long-haired cat was Wendell, named 

 for the friend who brought him from Persia, and 

 his descendants are now in the Lockehaven Cattery. 

 Queen Wendella is one of the most famous cats in 

 America to-day, and mother of the beautiful Locke- 

 haven Quartette. These are all descended from 

 the first Wendell. The kittens in the Lockehaven 

 Quartette went to Mrs. S. S. Leach, Bonny Lea, New 

 London, Ct. ; Miss Lucy Nichols, Ben Mahr Cattery, 

 Waterbury, Ct. ; Miss Olive Watson, Warrensburg, 

 Pa. ; and Mrs. B. M. Gladding, at Memphis, Tenn. 

 Mrs. Locke's Lord Argent, descended from Atossa 

 and the famous Lord Argent, of England, is a magnifi- 



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