The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-03-03
CATS AND DOGS.
Tho Moods, Tempers and Natures OF ths
CANNES md Felines.


Cats do not tako punishment as
dogs do. Their tempers rise, and if
struck they arc apt to strike back,
but beyond gentlo cuff to kitten
now and then l find a scolding or an
exclamation of robuko enough. They
are also less intelligent and forgiv.
ing than dog if unintontionally
kicked or trodden on. There is no
more beautiful expression in q dogs
faoo than the look he turns to the
friend who has involuntnrily hurt
him before there is timo to explain.
His whole domeanor expresses the
highest magAanimity, not only the
foregone pardon, but the eager de-
sire that tic offender shall think no
more of tho mnttor.
In many respects cats are moro
like mon and women than dogs are
They have moods, and their nature
Ii complex. A dog is very much of
piece. Ho is good dog or bad
dog, brave or cowardly, honest or a
sneak, Tho canine intelligence is
much higher than the felino, but the
disposition is simpler.
Cats are exceedingly irritable by
temperament, sensitive to changes
of the weather, to frost, to thunder.
They are exoitable anl naturally
disposed to bite and scratch when
at play. There is q curious tendency
in them as in i'll balanced or over
strung human beings, to lose thoir
heads when in high spirits, and tho
self command most of them show
when full grown in resisting these
impulses is a striking proof of coll
soious responsibility. A full grown
pct cat scarcely ever scratches q
young child, no matter how much
mauled by it. Besides being irrita-
Bile they are moody and subject to
depression, probably physical re-
action from tho former condition.
Princess, though not sullen cat,
would sometimes forsake the hearth
or veranda and pass days by herself
on garden wall or under bush,
not i'll or out of temper, but out of
spirits, morbid and wishing for soli-
tude instead of the sympathy which
sho always sought in her real all
ments and bereavements.
Her peouliarities, both of race and
individuality, wero remarkably de-
fined, oven when she held them in
restraint; but, with one exception,
all tho cats l have known are cap
tious. Their instinct when i'll or sad
is to be alone, but this is entirely
noutralized by potting. Thoy be-
como as dependent on caresses and
sympathy a. children and much
wiser than children whom they arc
i'll or injured, as they apply for re.
lief with tho most unmistakable
suggestions, sometimes indicating
plainly where thoy are in pain and
presenting tho suffering mombcr for
treatment. Thoy arc not so patient
as dogs in taking medicine or sub
initting to surgical caro-. but show
their recognition of its benefit by
coming back Tor it under similar
circumstances. -Tomplo Bar.
Palate TioSIers.
AS delioacies the Greeks ate young
foxes caught in the autumn, robins
and sparrows and certain kinds of
fish shared by moonlight. There is
scrap of an old Greek comedy in
which cook boasts of frying a fish
SO exquisitely that it threw him
grateful looks from the pan. A fa.
nous Greek dish was the Trojan
pig, half of it boiled and the other
half roasted. 1t was stuffed with
eggs, ortolans and thrushes. The
Romans ate snails-giant monsters
-fattened until their shells held an
incredible amount of snail. The
kettle in high class Roman kitch-
on was often shaped like an ele-
plants hoad. The water was pour
ed through the trunk. The gridiron
might be huge silver spider or a
skoletun Es:..