The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-12

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Elv blue. But Lilly, her cat. is white.
And this is what caused the tragedy
which Is told in detail here today.
Miss Margaret is pretty young woman
of twenty-five years and says she is never
really happy unless surrounded by 10 ten
der shade Of blue.
1t soothes her. Gains her excitable dis-
position and gives serenity to her some
times overweight nerves. Miss Owen IL
temperamental and lives just of Fifth ave-
nue. in New York and her parents are
wealthy and indulgent.
She believes this color corresponds to
the tint of her aura, which h that invis.
fble light that scientists teil us surrounds
our bodies and is Of different shade Of
color for different personalities.
Color harmony has been a study Of Miss
Owens life and. she says. a particular
shade of blue betokening sedsteness and
solitude and signifying Consistency and
serenity is the true expression OF her per
sonality. ~
But love for color harmony got her into
trouble. Lilly was white. This was un-
fortunate, for she loved Lilly-but the
misfortune could be easily remedied. She
thought it would be very cute 10 dye dear
Lilly the same color as her gown.
Miss Owens brilliant idea came to her
one day when she noticed that the blue
stockings she was wearing we're turning
yellow, and this annoyed her aesthetic
sense" 1t was the maids day out, but
something just had to be done about these
stockings IL she were to enjoy any peace
OF mind. So. instead Of waiting for the
maid, she determined to correct the pallor
OF these stockings herself.
! Miss owen rolled up the sleeves OF her
dainty blue snock and turned the hot
water faucet above the marble bowl in
her dressing room. Tempering this with
little cold water until II became luke
warm she poured in a bottle Of indigo. To
I this she added three fifteen-cent packages
of blue dye, +
Now" she said to herself, these stock
ings shall be the bluest that ever walked
Fifth avenue or the boardwalk of Atlantic
City.
She doused the stockings in the bowl
as she had seen the family laundress do
in her own home In Ohio. Now Miss
Owens ears are as keen as she is senst
tive to color, and they were smitten just
then by long-drawn feline meow"
h "Come to muzzy Lilly" she said.
han If phita laopod throuoh ono 40 ~
the edge of the bowl. Lilly was white
Angora kitten, eight months old and of
exceeding liveliness and possessed the
usuay catljke curiosity. Lilly r.hed into
the>bue lake and watched 'mtzzy" knead-
ing two fuzzy wooden objects in It. Lilly's
white paw followed With cry she
quickly withdrew her paw. From white
the end OF 1t had turned blue. as Miss
Owen noticed, eIspping her hands in de-
light.
"Muszys dear darling baby is turning
blue. = How pretty! When my stockings
are finished shall dye you. too"
Miss Owen took the stockings to the
roof to dry. Then she gathered Lilly in
her arms and without more ado dipped
her into the palid blue liquid in the bowl.
Lilly's sharp cries Of reproacb rang through
the house, but Miss Owen was determined
to give the kitten good coat Of blue all
over and held her in the bowl until she
was sure the dye had taken.
LILLY was In the bowl about i've min
utes, as near as can remember" she said
afterward.
Then she wrapped ths>kitten In an old
towel and dried out some Of the stain. She
had been careful not to get any of the dye
near the cats face and mouth while 1t
was in the bowl, so that she afterward had
to dye the fur near the mouth and eyes
with piece OF cotton batten In her fin-
gers after Il had been dipped into the In
dgo. Miss Owen placed her pet on blue
cushion and wondered why It lay so still.
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