Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1896 — SOCIETY’S NEW PETS. [ARTICLE]

SOCIETY’S NEW PETS.

Aneora Cats Now Popular for Milady’s Boudoir A new tad being an r.osolute necessity in New York life, and the difficulty being to find enough new ones to “fiil the bill.” c ats have now come in to have their day. Not the old-fashioned, striped, lshmaellike. back-fence tigers, with every man’s hand against them, or the quiet, uurring gray creatures of the hearth of our youth. The fashionable ones are th > Angora cats, and the finer tind the higher the price, of course, the better milady likes them. The fanciers have sold more than ever before inis season, and prices have varied from $lO for a small kitten of doubtful pents to S4O or SSO for the prize-winning beauties of catdom. Of course, these cats and kittens are not new; thef have been known to fame for centuries. But the present fad for them is quits new. and no one need be surprised on entering a fashionable woman's boudoir to see a ball of fluffy cotton on the floor, which, on investigation, will resolve itself into a longhaired and long-tailed Angora. They are not all white; in fact, they are to be ead in all the colors anil stripes of ordinary c:r. s. The white ones are the most valuable.and the beautiful gray and white come next. Long hair, beautiful eyes, and the fine bushy tails, which grow to an astonishing size, are the principal characteristics of these fashionable pets. At the Exchange for Woman's Work they have received several requests to hunt up 1

weH-eondueted and pedigreed Angoras, ami the industry seems to be quite thriving. The cats are very clever. Many of them are used lu trick anirnul troupes, aud a great deal cau lie taught them. As in the matter of [lets, here again the white ones are the favorites. lieiug more* effective on the stage. A saucier who deals largely in small jx*ts, and esliecially cats, says he lias now several orders for Angoras for exhibition purposes. One man has ordered two. which are uow on their way from Paris, aud if they. too. prove a sucoegs, six more will lx* imported for the same purpose. The principal places from which.the cats come are Loudon. Paris, aud the different parts of Germany. Many are raised here, and the kittens are sold when quite young, but they are a risky purchase. lx*ing rather difficult to raise. The lmir grows longer with time, sometimes growing quite bushy on a cat which lives to a revercsl old age*, twelve years or a little more lieiug the length of life allotted these little* jiets. But to choose one's favorite for ilie length and beauty of its hair is an obvious mistake. for it necessarily means less years iu which to enjoy its society.