The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-01
HE case of the Canadian widow
y who maintained 100 cats and was
forced 10 move because her pets

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forced to move because her pets
were held by the court to be a nuisance
again calls attention to that curious
psychological phenomenon whereby wo-
men without husbands, whether they be
widows or maiden ladies, almost invari-
ably solace themselves by one or more
cats. Just why lone females and cats
drift together is a question that the wis
est savants have never been able to an
swer. Certainly, there can be little re-
ciprocal feeling between them, for cats
are never lonely. Indeed they are the
most self-sufficient and i-ordinately self
contemplative animals in existence and
why they are in such favor in man.
less establishments is a problem no one
can solve. The prediction of old maids
for cats is simply psychological puzzle
and that is as far as one can go. Cats
do not afford any protection; they neith-
er sing nor dance, nor do they entertain
those who support them by the wit of
their conversation or the sprightliness of
their demeanor. There are parrots, ca
nary birds, squirrels rabbits, dogs guinea
pigs and many other pets in great num-
bers that are suitable for the sedate COM
partnership of old maids and widows, but
cats hold their own in the very forefront
of popularity without effort
Perhaps after all the reasons so many
men get up and leave the theatres be-
tween the acts is due to the execrable
performances of many theatre orchestras.
At least a crusade of reform has been
launched in this direction and there may
be something in the theory after all. Ger
tainly the excuse is a good one, if moth
ing more.
Twenty-four degrees below zero at Win
nipeg, Manitobal And still people down
south shiver beneath the playful caresses
of Father Winter, crying to high heaven
upon the plumber and the coal man when
the thermometer registers twenty-four de-
grees above zerol
Another girl has been given 81 for find
ing $4,000 and restoring it to its owner.
If this thing keeps up people will acquire
wisdom in the course of time and instead
of contenting themselves with virtues
own reward they will pocket all they find
and proceed to hew a wide and imposing
swath by spending it freely.
1t has just been announced that the
Dutch for automobile is not 'snellpaa-
Observation-Disclosures OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
but 'snellpaardelooszond
oleumryting. photographers and con-
versationalists will please take notice.
The National Promotion of Health club,
which is probably synonymous with the
National Aggregation of Unmtigated
Cranks, has announced a new microbe
menace, and the club members are in
full hue and cry after restaurants that
serve their patrons on snowy linen with
linen napkins as accessories. thus far no
violent cuisine disturbances have taken
place, but the club will fight the public
table cloth and the public napkin to the
bitter end No man knows the disease and
destruction spread abroad by this means
zone could count the cost in human life,
therefore the National Promotion of
Health club wears an air of determination
that BODIES no good to the table cloth and
the humble napkin, which have never
heretofore been indicted for anything
worse than being dirty. The wonder of it
is how we have managed to worry along
all these years since the mistake of
Adam down to the last bomb hurled in
st. Petersburg, and have managed to
survive the onslaughts of microbes and
disease germs. 1t is reasonable to sup
pose that these organisms were fairly
plentiful in the days of good Queen
Bess, but no one lost any sleep over
them in those halcyon times.
If you have not had the grin" DoDu-