The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-21
THE PUSSY AND THE CHICKS.
All Crowds in Luna Park Converge Upon
Louisc-Her Sad Narrative.

Down at Coney Island, among the jealous
freak bodies OF Luna Park, there Is wo.
Ram Singh, the baby elephant, is of his
feed and trumpets in chains, few hundred
pounds Of blind. bound bad temper. Little
Marie, the fat girl, whose heft Is full 800
pounds, is glum and grouchy, and by the
scales Of Pike McGinn, the lightning cal
culator, she has lost ten pounds since noon
on Saturday and is melting fast
Sammy Simpson, the living skeleton,
is putting on weight 30 swiftly that Sammy
will be out Of the slim stakes soon unless
Percval Preakness, proud owner Of Louise
Constance De We're, the chicken raising cat,
puts the kibosh on Louise.
Trouble started on Saturday, when Louise
Constance De We're, sitting on a nestful OF
eggs, hatohed23 out of possible 80. Proud
Porcyal preakness fastened to give the
news to the world, painting press agents
perspired night and the tickle public
rushed to the brooder to rubber at Louise.
Yesterday there was nothing to it but the
white cat and her family Of chickens; the
rest Of Luna Park might as well have been
in Kalamazoo or Kamchatka.
When the crowds passed through the
gates OF Luna Park yesterday afternoon,
proud Percival Preakness was there chant
ing the triumphs Of Louise Constance,
They followed him like sheep to the brooder
where the cat was sedately washing her
face a mon q bunch of fuzzy, newly Matched
chicks. There were just twenty-three OF
those chicks, as per advertisement.
-Oh, isn't that just too cunning, said
a pretty, girl. However did you get her
Its a sad tale" said Percival. Listen
and will relate 1t to you
"A year ago Louise was the pampered pet
of Chicago society. Never was there, a
show of fne cats but she bagged the blue
ribbons and all the fat prizes, But the
pomp and glory saddened her girlish heart:
She got thin and lost her fur and moped
There was an aching void in her. young life.
One night she escaped from the house and
sat weeping on the back fence. An admir-.
ing Thomas happened that way, wooed
and won her.
ASome months later Louise appeared
happily purring with family Of six. But
she had married beneath her. and the kit
tens instead OF possessing her silky white
fur and her beautiful pink ears, were ugly
sorawny and plainly Of low origin. They
took her kittens away from her. Ihey
and drowned them in the Chicago River
Poor Louise was inconsolahle.
aFinally, broken hearted, she left home
and wandered In the streets. ! found her
one day, learned her sorrowful history and
became interested =,
aBut didn't you give her another chance2'
said the girl.
Il did, miss" said Percival. Il did. But
she had come to hate the sight Of kitten
| tried to satisfy her maternal instinct with
young pups. She would have none OF them.
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pie. but it didn't last. Then HI d happy
thought. / showed her nest full Of hens
eggs and she seemed to grasp the point
She sat on those eggs and Matched them
every one.
Il tried her again and again she did the
full duty of a hen So now have her here
where all the world may see."
-Her NAME" concluded Percival, is
now Feathers, because 1 do not care to
have her reminded OF the woful past