New-York tribune., 1902-12-28
ca rs OF HIGH DEGREE.
Per@ans and 4ngoras at Coming
Cat Shoe.

Side by side with royal and pedigreed felinity,
the "shorthairs the common garden knd
will this year take their place at the Cat Show
to be held in Madison Square Garden January
to g. The breeding of the latter for the same
points that valued In the Persian-sman round
head. Short nose, short legs. small ears, large
eyes and fine long haired coatis the latest wrinkle
in the world. After years of ignominy and
hardship the pussy of backyard and alley fence
usage is at last high life. and 1t is marvel
lous what few short generations of care and
breeding will do for the -outcast.
Another innovation of the show of 1903. the first
to be managed by a club especially organized In
the interests of feline pets, Is class and prizes
for homeless cats Any one knowing of good
specimen of this species for which he wants to
find home may enter the animal free of charge
with the secretary of the club. OF titled person
ages. Persian. Angora. the entries already double
those of last year; and the coming show promises
TO eclipse ali previous efforts in this direction.
Cats, indeed. are rapidly ranking with dogs and
horses in Ametca as society pets. Women are
especially afflicted by the craze for Persian cats.
and even men not entirely superior to it, Al
most much is paid now for pedigree in catdom
as in the domain of the dog, and cat shows are a
feature in the winters programme this season in
Washington. Cincinnati. Boston. Detroit, Schenec-
tady and Pittsburg well this city. The cat
mania has come over from England. where the
breeding of these animals of high degree has long
been ruling fad with society women.
Mrs. Clinton Locke. of Chicago. was the first
American woman to import Persians. This was
six or seven years ago. and shortly after that the
Beresford Cat Club of Chicago was formed, and
for a. long time was the only cat club in America
Since then the Detroit and the Orange and
Cream have been organized. in Detroit. besides
one In Washington, the Pacific coast. and
last year the Atlantic Cat Club here in New
York OF this last club Mrs. W. s. Hafstra, OF
Garden City, Long Island is president, Mrs H. A.
Mix of Akin n. Y, and Mrs. Champion, of Staten
Island, yice-presidents. All the earlier clubs are
now becoming branches of this. and after the
exhibit in January new branches will be organized
HOW TO TELL A PERSIAN
4 native Persian can always be told by its slit
nostrfls an operation performed to aid its breath
ing in crossing the mountain ranges The monks
of famous old Chartreuse, perched among the Al
nine heights bred the Persian for profit during
the Middle Ages. Modern breeders divide Persians
into four cIasses-blues, yellows silver and white
The first must be solid blue, with white mark
ings; the second may be either marked or IN
marked, as they fall under orange or cream
These have orange hazel eyes. OF the third
class there are three subdivisions. the shaded.
chnehillas and seIf-silvers (other things being
equal, a green eyed silver beats yellow eyed
The white Persians must not show single coiored
hair and must have blue eyes. Then there are the
smokes whose markings dark face and legs,
silver friII and eartip, body hair white mot svery)
at the roots and black at the tips. These have
orange eyes. The eyes of the ''tabbies" must