Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-04-03
NEW YORK GIRL FORCED TO ABAN.
DON SEARCH FOR BABIES
AS POSER.
SHE SWITCHED SPEClALTIES.
1eils of Women Who Dress Their ca.
mines to Match Their Own
Gowns.
CATS MUCH EASIER TO "sNApn

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wei kept apartment house on Riverside
triVe' Having read and duly pondered
the statement, Sun reporter asked the
young woman to talk about her special.
~, says the New York Sun,
TO begin with, | used to make n spe-
cialty OF children, little babes There are
so many nore children in the west than
here in New York. You know. I'm from
the west" the young woman went ON.
wv hen first came to New York | al
most starved to death the first six
months 1t took me just that long to
catch on.
You see, | brought the idea of max
ing specially of children with me 10 a
place where there are no children That
is, none that people care about having
photographed.
1T worried me to death at first. |
couldn't make out what was wrong.
Then | began to realize that instead OF
wealthy and well-to-do people having
children rs i'll the west, they all had
either cats or dogs. | had Il set of new
cards printed and set out
Il didn't have Il bit of trouble. 1t was
all plain sailing. Everybody wanted her
cat or her dog photographed, just as in
the west everybody had wanted her
baby's picture taken.
Busy Very Soon.
In less than three months after |
made that discovery | had every minute
of my time engaged weeks ahead, and
moved from the boarding house where |
had found it difficult to make both ends
meet with speciality children to n charm
ing apartment of my own, with money
to put in bank.
Cats are much more easily photo
graphed than dogs, for the simple rea-
son that they are not SO restless, have
fewer eccentricitieS or less individuality.
| have known eats intimately all my lite
and have only found two varieties SO far
as dispositions are concerned, the ami
able cat and the spiteful cat.
LAS for the intellectual cat and the
stupid cat, they exist only i'll the fond
imagination of their owners, so far as |
have been able to see. Every cat that |
am called on to photograph to listen to its
owner, is Il marvel of intelligence. When
| come to make their acquaintance 1t is
the same old thing, either spit or purr.
"Phutographing cat of the purr variety
is the simplest thing imaginable. \ few
gentle strokes and it will remain in any
position you place it; hold Il bright col
orcd object or bit of food over its head
and il will become animated ut once;
nut an electric mouse or bird on the floor
and it will crouch and make ready for
n snring If my subject is of the spit
fire variety | follow the rule of con
trarieS.
Love Places Only.
"Of all the eats that l have known |
don't believe six of them care for per
sons. only for places. In spite of this MI
too evident indifference the owners of
eats are as n rule really attached to
them. One cat whose photograph | have
made every month since l have
hrcn in the business is the most indittcr-
emf little piece of flesh and blood that |
have ever seen, yet Its mistress, Il
wealthy unmarried woman, is MS devoted
to it us she -. any woman could be to
child.
blood? No. indeed, this little cat
hasn't even The slightest claims to blood.
She was II regular little guttersnlpe when
| WAS first called in to take her picture.
The lady had picked her up in the
street only two days before. The little
thing had been hungry, ana as the lady
stepped from her carriage she Whlned
and looked up in her face. | believe she
even rubbed against her skirt.
This was taken as n great evidence OF
intelligence. as the lady was especially
FOND of cats. Being without pet just
nj that time the kitten was brought
into the house and fed. She found her
way into the parlor, aud there she has
been ever since.
al the present time she sleeps in n
,,b;tn nnomeIed crib beside the bed of
her mistress and has four carriages and
n maid especially engaged to wheel her
in Central park. AS for cushions ana
cloaks, they are almost without hulhp'r
and all of the finest and daintiest ma
terial
No Extra Intellect.
"rhe owner Of this cat considers II the
greatest compliment that she can pay n
nerson is to give him a set of photo
graphs of this little white and black pus-
~ She ia an attractive looking niue
animal because she is clean, healthy and
we'll fed. but as for intelligence-well,
She is lust the common purring variety
of eat, and that is all there is to her.
."rhere is another woman who calls on
me quite frequently to photograph her pet
and who elects to give her cat jewels,
She is married. and requires her husband
to duplicate every present of jcwelry IN
tended for herself for her cat.
This particular eat is one of the near
Intelligent cats that | have met. she
really appears to be proud OF her hrace-
70 take pains to lie in such position as
to show her ornaments to the best ad-
vantage. but will often annoy VISITOR
until particular attention has been taken
of them. as
yet I have seen that cat take as
mnph nr1Ue III Il hIiSHt Ai''Nl' Sc
tinr before ,he mirror to admire herself
and scratching my skirt until expressed
my approval. so ! cannot heheve What
The eats mistress attirms, that the car
knows an imitation stone from reaI
one IF person told me- that doS
could tell the difference between rea
md and imitation I might be tempted to be,
Enve II. but cat-I haven't imaS'halion
' ITO get good photographt n of an IN in
tel6rent dog one has first to know III,
40 If the dog. A dog often ms AZ
o o,r Individuality as a human beng
Banishing the Owner
az have known owners and dogs as !.
+horonrhly mismatched as some parents =
and children, and vet there would pS e; !
"artoin attachment between them. NJ NJ
ther would understand the otner. 9' ;rri i'm,
result would be sort OF sehei''
t; H on the part of the dog, -, ranorts
whenever the owner OF a dos ret'V IN
tbat II is an irritable animal ger aGs
n,vner out of sight when taking tae uo Us
,hntopraph. | have never seen = .' or
~ Which healthy dog was cross s3 !, -
III ,,,,raiIy irritable that the surrouuu'"SS