High-Bred Cats in America 



Persia is a handsome specimen of the fine blue 

 chinchilla class. She is quiet, amiable, and shows her 

 high breeding in her good manners and intelligence. 

 Her tail is like a fox's brush, and her ruff gladdens 

 the heart of every cat fancier that beholds her. She 

 is an aristocratic little creature, and seems to feel 

 that she comes of famous foreign ancestry. Mrs. 

 Clarke makes great pets of her beautiful cats, and 

 trains them to do many a cunning trick. 



Another cat which has won several prizes, and 

 took the silver bowl offered for the best cat and 

 litter of kittens in the 1895 cat show of New 

 York is Ellen Terry, a handsome orange and white, 

 exhibited by Mrs. Fabius M. Clarke. At that show 

 she had seven beautiful kittens, and they all reposed 

 in a dainty white and yellow basket with the mother, 

 delighting the hearts of all beholders. She now be- 

 longs to Mrs. Brian Brown, of Brooklyn. She is a 

 well-bred animal, with a pretty face and fine feather- 

 ing. One of the kittens who won the silver bowl in 

 1 89s took the second prize for long-haired white 

 female in New York, in March, 1896. She is a 

 beautiful creature, known as Princess Dinazarde, and 

 belongs to Mrs. James S. H. Umsted, of New York. 



Sylvia is still in Mrs. Clarke's possession, and is 

 a beautiful creature, dainty, refined, and very jealous 

 of her mistress's affection. Mrs. Clarke also owns 

 a real Manx cat, brought from the Isle of Man by 

 Captain McKenzie. It acts like a monkey, climbing 



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