The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 27, 1901, Page 10

THE SUNDAY CALL. R & . < . E e ~ L3 b . he have as owi pers: » matte of t for “nivend ks i viae they Have g : tress who makes g is where ” ways nan, who, s he tion of w all this is oy it anyw 8 show mj appro ng as d eable as I possibly can.” she skulks in a corner or goes to re the whole at- or a stranger. So as I have to resort to ell kinds of subterfuge, I can work bet- he room with the pet P family stays around to attention. ting acquainted. y matter with most of o ats, for they are a high- strung lot of animals, with nerves alart end claws ever ready. I have gone about with my hands in bandages sometimes after spending an afternoon with one of these mild-looking fluffballs; but the scratches don’t count if I can only get he picture. It is enough of & feat to pay for any amount of trouble and bandaging. In the first place I talk to the cat, play ‘with it, do anything to win its confidence. ‘You have got to know cats to do this successfully. They recogniza thelr friends \ A THEATRICAL, POSE > > " INTEREYT” POSED BY stroke t ited who yme 1sed to my pres- 1 go about n to her. I am harmless am busy about t 13 an imyp point. She must el excitemer the air, and she not discover something is to be done in which she is to be the chief par- ticipant. <he sus spunky in a That is upon the y 1s trying to purpose she will be 1 never try to place her ool until I ready. It would 14 jump down imme- cteristic of cats They never will be dictated to. You may make the softest bed for them and they will hunt out an uncomfortable nest for be of no u: diately, for themselves in preference. TheyNare deter- want and that nebody mined to show that they know what they I should like to draw [PHOTOGRA HOT TIME eise does. Hereupon am afrald of losing all my friends of one a comparison, but I sex if I do so, TH1%5 PojE here have been times when son, she has jumped upon it 1 have been thout her dreaming thlait a ng on. However, this is luck graph her w thing was g and cannot be counted upon. I want to take her picture in an alert pose. That Is the keynote of the perform- ance, and with that end in view I go to There is a whistle in my pocket that have brought for the purpose. There is a little bell, too. The cat will look up when I prefer that the cat should suppose these are blown and rung for the first that the stool Is the last place I want her time, but perhaps that will be the end '_lno « . scratching om floor. I try dan- before her. e first sight be some- her wide- to look tube six or I can operats g cle to the animal. I place her in position mpulse is to jump, but on the 1 pares to do so I jin- the whistle, or do d is the magic trick. toward the I press the & called Pr ed ever so little en ol ite. So even after the long time take ing acquain ed with the cat 1 btained ma: ful poses for nothing. t belongs to ullar way of squint- ing the appearance of a q him an in- a good suc- ot her mc Jim, everal times. ook pleass Cats won't when they are told to do ile, b the white cat se: little Eth an brother on the bamboo stool certain white opened 1 had a time g n end a string on the carpet did the trick. Nelo is a spiendid dark Angora belou I wanted to get a the great plume of ed the cat with back o attracted its glanc getting a ¢ Nelo has tures that bear a profile view 3 sult was a picture that looks as if posed by a professional who knew his good points. It is amusing to , cted expres- rs extend a woman hem in beautift sweeps her train. The contrast of a black > makes the best pictures for white Ango- . n Mrs. Hoaz's che, which is d tan Slames=, d a light bac ound Psych very amiable, Siamese ca always are better tempered tham An- goras. Kittens are ha or to photograph than ver still. The two iit- rown, fu sras made as good a et of kittens. h big white fel- low, has a ruff which she wanted to have shown to good advantage s0 1 got a pose alm face with head thrown up A pretty pose In one case was obtained just as a cat raised pa fo strike a g hand ) Tt and the te Mu 2 was finally lay in a n ne lioniika pose, a ly and showing any amoun d flerceness. I worked with White Muggins three hours, if | member rightly, and I am sure that Temember rightly the condition of my hands when he had finished trying his claws on them; but White Muggins proved artistic enough poser to nay for all painstaking and the .paina,