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Show Improvements in Mouse Culture TyHEN. in 1895. the first Mouse " Club was started In England, two-thirds of the charter members Were women. Think of that, girls! In later years we havo had in this country many exhibitions of "fancy" mice at pet shows, agricultural fairs, etc . prizes being offered for the finest specimens. But It was the Japanese who initiated in-itiated tho mouse fad. and it was they who first bred the "waltzing mice," which. In a cage, run endlessly round and round in circles They seem to I have a peculiar nervous disease a sort of terpsichorean psychosis, so to speak Equally remarkable in their way J are the 'singing mice," whose whistling notes aro not unmusical. Thero are also ' spiny mice," that jump about like grasshoppers Murh attention has been devoted to the breeding of mice of different jHiii I MpH I i Types of "fancy mico' colors for example, black mice with chocolate markings, cream-colored mice and lemon-colored mice. At the Bronx Zoo (New York city) have been produced yellow mice, slate-colored slate-colored mice, purple mice and "royal put pie" mice with yellow feet. A mouse near to sky blue has been obtained, but the ultimate ambition of the enthusiastic murophilc is to de-velop de-velop a tortoiseshell race. It Is thought that this may be accomplished by crossing the purple variety with pure yellow of opposite sc. |