Concerning Cats 



Show of 189s, but no longer attends cat shows, on 

 account of her engagements as professional model. 



Ben Austrian, who has made a success in painting 

 other animals, has done a cat picture of considerable 

 merit. The subject was Tix, a beautiful tiger-gray, 

 belonging to Mr. Mahlon W. Newton, of Philadel- 

 phia. The cat is noted, not only in Philadelphia, 

 but among travelling men, as he resides at a hotel, 

 and is quite a prominent member of the office force. 

 He weighs fifteen pounds and is of a very affectionate 

 nature, following his master to the park and about 

 the establishment like a dog. During the day he 

 lives in the office, lying on the counter or the key- 

 rack, but at night he retires with his master at eleven 

 or twelve o'clock, sleeping in his own basket in the 

 bathroom, and waking his master promptly at seven 

 every morning. Tix's picture hangs in the office 

 of his hotel, and is becoming as famous as the cat. 



Elizabeth Bonsall is a young American artist who 

 has exhibited some good cat pictures, and whose work 

 promises to make her famous some day, if she does 

 not " weary in well-doing " ; and Mr. Jean Paul Sel- 

 inger's " Kittens" are quite well known. 



The good cat illustrator is even more rare than the 

 cat painters. Thousands of readers recall those 

 wonderfully lifelike cats and kittens which were a 

 feature of the St. Nicholas a few years ago, accom- 

 panied by "nonsense rhymes" or "jingles." They 

 were the work of Joseph G. Francis, of Brookline, 



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