Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-07

staid at home. declining an invitation for
the day. Byron nursed his dog Boat
swain through hydrophobia and risked the
disease. II never .-new but oneS QrieadD.
and here he Hes was part OF this dogs
epitaph. written by his poet master. Byron
directed in his will that his own body he
buried near that O; this faithful animal
One of Darwin's dogs slept at the foot OF
his bed beneath the covers. kingsley was
buried a few rods from his dogs. The food
of Queen yictoria's dogs was prepared in a
special kitchen.
Belief in the Immortality of the dogs
soul was expressed by Luther. Plato. Piu-
tarch. Locke. Dies Carries. Condillac. Bishop
Butler and Robert Louis Stevenson.
DR.. Buckles tribute to the dog was in
these words This pet has taught the CHI
dren goodness. poiiteness. sympathy. cheer
fulness companions blencss. appreciation,
patience gentleness. cleanliness. the rewa al
for good nature. interest in and knowledge
of all animal life and the exalted post ON
of all animal nature 1t has made them
more interested in their fellows and hu-
manity. and has furnished the ideals of
life 1t is reasonable to believe that she
who has had successful experience i'm train
ing pet dog would better understand chill
life and be more successful in teaching the
child than one who has not had such ex-
perfence-'
Cat Ranks Next.
The special study of the cat was made
Browne. They found that this animal is
nearly twice often girls pet as a boys
Eight years is the age when girls love the
cat BEST eleven in the boys case. While
many naturalists deny that cats have any
real love for their masters the child. which
perhaps knows this animal best. attributes
to 1t grief at separation. pleasure at being
with Its master. sympathy In illness or
trouble. willingness to please and pleasure
in touching its human friends.
Sixty-three distinct cat 'myows" have
been counted. Its language has the same
rowels rs pronounced by the dog and SIX
additional consonants-"m." ~ "g" n
" and 81" About half OF the children
reporting to the investigators believe that
their cats understand words.
Cat fights have come I'm for their share of
study. With boys the interest In such en-
counters is found to increase from the age
of eight to that of fifteen. while II decreases
I'm girls between the same ages Girls show
pity and sympathy for the cat wursted.
while boys glorffy the victor
The investigation of cat diet showed that
they were observed to eat grasshoppers.
coffee, custard pie jelly, raw potatoes
grass and seeds, in addition to the more
common foods One cat developed a spe-
cial penchant for beer
BY far the greater number OF these CHI
dren cats are buried with more or less
ceremony. Upon demise flowers are placed
on the graves not only at the time of the
funerals, but for successive seasons.
Cat Lovers and Haters
list of famous cat lovers. complied by
the investigators includes Leo XII, Plus
TX. Petrarch. Victor Hugo. Shelley Words.
worth. Matthew Arnold. Sir Isaac Newton
DIR. Johnson and Sir Walter Scott Hero
dotus relates that when a house took fire
among them the Egyptians of his time
thought only of saving their cats. They
embalmed cats with great ceremony. each
member of the household shaving his eye
brows when a pet cat died. The Sultan Ell
Daher Beybars. who reigned over Egypt
and Syria about 1900 A. D.. left at his
death garden known THE Cat Or
chard. for the support of homeless cats.
The rental from this ground outside Cairo
Is now appropriated toward the purchase of
prepared food daily distributed among the
cats of the neighbofhood at the hour of
afternoon prayer. cloister st. Lo-
renzos Church. Florence. is reserved as 4,
cat refuge. while at Rome the butchers
stil drive through the streets giving Pc
cuiiar cry. familiar to all felines and dis
tributing cat meat paid for by cat-owner5
at certain monthly rate.
The great cat haters of history have been
Napoleon. Boswell Lord Roberts and RAJ
ton. In some Christian countries cas-
were tossed into the fire on St. Johns day
as an encouragement of morality, as late as
1904. They were publicly burned In Picar-
dy on the first Sunday of Lent. while in
habitants of Vpres formerly hurled them
from tower on the second Wednesday OF
Lent. Physicians of the middle ages cut
off cats ears and let the blood drip on parts
affected with erys!pelaS A recipe for pre-
serving the eyesight was to burn black
cats head and blow the ashes into the
eyes three times daily felon was trent
ed by placing the affected finger a quarter
of an hour each day in a cats ear.
Tribute to Puss.
The tribute which the investigators pay to
puss is as follows:
at is probable that no other animal has
been so loved and hated. petted and persa-
cuted. heaped with opprobrium and wor-
SHIPPED as a god. First idolized in Egypt.
prosecuted and outcast I'm the middle
ages, the companion Of popes and saints in
spirer of poets and artists. the accused and
mathematical accomplish of witches. lend
ing herself without protest to the behests
of the evil one; these two extremes OF at,
traction and repulsion may stu be traced
in the attitude of individuals toward the
modern domestic cat