The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23
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NEGETARIAN ANIMALS.
Cats and Dogs Are Sometimes Cham
piOns of the No Meat Diet.
From, the TCrFOn Sl,atch


From the LorCon Sketch
Visitors to the vegetarian exposition at
the Memorial Hall found nothing to try
their faith so severely as the vegetarian
cat, 1t was not present In person, for the
sufficient reason that it has been dead
these two years, but its portrait in oils
shows it to have been a more than usu-.
ally comely specimen of its kind. Miss
Whitfield, its owner during the fourteen
years of its earthly career, asserts HAT
the likeness does no more than justice.
Queen Nab was a tabby, long-furred ard
finely marked. Her infancy was spent UNI
der the best auspices, her mother being
a Persian and her birthplace a clergy
mans house in Shropshire. She came into
the care of Miss Whitfield at the age of
three weeks, and since then till her la
mented death remained under that lady's
roof. not even proving inconstant, as some
fiesh-eating breeds do when the house
hold removed from Shropshire to Thorn
ton Heath.
Queen Nab was vegetarian not by ed
ucation, but by instinct. From the time
she developed an extraordinary passion for
vegetables of all kinds. Her favorites
were peas, beans and Brussels sprouts,
but nothing came amiss. She would go
out into the garden and eat strawberries
off their beds. Beetroot and dates she
reveled in, though those are not uncom-
mon feline tastes. In the case of potatoes
she made a distinction. She would &C.
YOUR them with avdlty so long as they
were not boiled. With that exception She
had no particular views about cooking.
For beverages she preferred milk ana CO.
Goa. Her singular diet did not affect her
health, for she lived TO her mature age in
the best condition and tenDPr
On coming to the ticklish point of
Queen Mab's vegetarian principles, it is
necessary TO make a qualification. Vege-
tarians, as we know, consist of more than
one sect. Queen Nab may be called a
vegetarian of the second degree She was
not averse to washing down a cauliflower
with cream, and she would eat meat at
a pinch, but her predictions were mani
fest from the first. When she could get
vegetables she would not eat meat, and so
the animal element was gradually drop
ped out of her bill of fare Most of her
peculiar tastes were acquired during her
country life, when a large garden minis
tered to her every desire, and after COM
ing to town her mistress made a point of
seeing that the daily cabbage was not d.
minished.
Did Queen Nab catch mice? The truth
will out: now and again. but rarely. she
lapsed TO that extent. But not in malice.
''She would not play with them" said
Miss Whitfield. One last word. and 1t is
a saddening one Queen Mabs daughter
and only descendant, has succeeded 10
her place in the household She is a
Voracious meat-eater.
As type Of vegetarian dog may be mem
toned Lord Bruno-a magnificent speci-
men of smooth St. Bernard, standing
thrty-four inches high at the shoulder.
with the famous Plinlimmon blood on
both sides. Ho is by Colonel Butte. out of
Lady Lii, and was born on March "a
1893. His owner Herbert s. Rant. first
showed him at Cruft's in 1896 where he
was highly commended" Since then
Lord Butte Bruno has lived the life of
case and luxury of a household pet but
this blissfu state OF existence viii suf
fer temporary eclipse during these clos
ing weeks of the year, as Mr.. Riant has
decided TO enter him for the Jubilee omen
show of the Ladies' Kennel Association
which will be held in the grounds of the
EarPs court exhibition in December. He
viii at any time turn from the teu,pt-
ing steak or chop-even from young duck
lings, plump partridges and the sayorr,
grouse-and choose instead apDles
oranges, melons. nuts (Which must he
cracked and peeled for him by his human
friends)-in fact. every kind of fruit and
vegetable.