The San Francisco call., 1901-10-27

OF her curiosity
I try striking a match. scratching on
the window, tapping the floor. try dan
Cling all sorts of objects before her.
Sometimes it takes much as an hour
TO discover anything that will really
arouse her interest after the frst slEnt
or sound. In the end, 1T must be some
thing that will infaIlibly attract her wide
awake attention and cause her to look
up eagerly.
The camera IS at some distance, but
have a bulb attached to a tube six or
SEVEN feet long. that I can operate
while 1 am standing close to the animal.
When all is ready place her in position
on the stool.
Her first impulse IS to jump, but on ths
instant that she prepares to do so jim
gle the bell or blow the whistle, or do
whatever 1 have found is the magic trick
Instantly she looks up toward the
r sound, pa sing in position. 1 press the
bulb and she is photographed.
That IS, perhaps she is. One can never
be sure. for even in the tiny fraction OF
a second that the exposure takes .ime
SO shcrt that it is called instantaneous,
Pussy may have moved ever so little but
enough to spoil the plate. So even after
the long time taken in becoming acquaint-
ed with the cat l may have obtained many
OF her most delightful poses for nothing.
jim, a white Angora that belongs to
Mrs. Brod, has peculiar way of sQuint-
ing his eyes, giving the appearance of
pleasant smile. This makes him an in
terestinG poser, and have had good sue
with him several times.
Cats won't look pleasant when they
are told to do so, much less smile, but
the white cat seated beside it's little Ethi-
iy has its lips parted in smile if ever
cat had. 1t was a dangling watch fob
that attracted these and the white one
was so charmed that she opened her
mouth about to snap at it. The contrast
CT solemn attention on the others face is
characteristic.
MILDLY is a very perverse individual and
L had time getting the pictures. In the
end string on the carpet did the trick.
Nelo is splendid dark Angora belong
ing to Mrs. Hoag and I wanted to get
back view showing the great plume Of
a tail. So L seated the cat with back o
the camera and attracted its glance up
ward and TO the side eettincr a clear r,ro-
file in that way. Nelo has regular fea-
lures that bear profile view and the re-
suit was picture that looks as il posed
points.
1t is amusing to see the affected express
sionS that some cats will take with head
tilted up like a French actress or with
paw gracefully extended as if it was a
much-admired arm Some Angoras wrap
their fluffy tails about their feet as Bern
hardt wraps her skirts Others extend
them In beautiful curves as woman
sweeps her train.
makes the best pictures for white Ango-
ras. In photographing Mrs. Hoas's
Psyche, which is black and tan Siamese.
/ used a light background. L found Psyche
very amiable, by the way; Siamese cats
always are better tempered than An
goras.
Kittens are harder to photograph than
cats, for they are never still. The two lit-
tie brown, fuzzy AngOras made as good a
picture as / can often get of kittens
Omar, Mrs. Marteling's big white fell
low, has a magnificent ruff which she
wanted to have shown to good advantage.
SO got a pose almost full face with head
thrown up.
A pretty pose in one case was obtained
just as a cat raised its paw 10 strike
teasing hand. The face is alert and the
position graceful.
Mrs. Hoag's White Muggins was finally
snapped when he lay in a fine Iionlik =
nose. at rest externally and showing anv
amount Of suppressed herceness. I worked
with White Muggins three hours, il / e
member rightly, and / am sure that I
remember rightly the condition of my
hands when he had finished trying his
claws on them; but White Muggins proved
an artistic enough poser to nay FOR ali
q the painstaking and the .painR