Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-12
This and That
By Charles E. TracetUeH.

We will let Viola say it, as follows:
"Hot Springs. Va.
Dear Mr.. Tracewen:
81 have been reading your Sunday
articles for some time and enjoy
them greatly.
II love cats, and if there is any
one thing / hate, it is cruelty to
dumb animals.
IT Just finished reading your piece
in the Star for Sunday, September
S. and I Just despise the man who
wrote the letter Of how to have fun
with the cat.
81 have a cat and if any one at
tempted to treat her so, I'd take him
and do the same to him, only worse.
"I hope I get to see the man, I'd
like to wiring his neck.
zone thing 1 know, you won't do
it to J. Spratt.
Yours and the eats friend,
"VIOLA BOLEYN.
"P. ST am IL years Old
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Thank you, Viola. in the name of
all friends of cats, as well as for the
cats.
You have neatly voiced the senti-
ments expressed in the other letters
we have received, in answer to the
gentleman who wrote us last week,
How to have fun with a cat" In
fact, you did such good job OF 1t
that we will allow the others to re-
pose in our letter box, as there is
nothing that they say which you
have not said!
So cats find friends. It Is one OF
the happiest signs of our time that
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man for thousands of years. today
Is befriended everywhere.
Recently dispatches told of how
a great liner had been stopped in
midocean and a kitten rescued from
a piece Of driftwood.
Surely the sight of such a little
creature, lost in world of water.
would be enough to move the hard
est heart-but 1t is extremely doubt
full whether any captain would have
stopped his vessel for such purpose
20 or 30 years ago.
This is but one token OF the re-
newed esteem in which the house
cat is held by the world in general.
In every age, of course. there have
been those Of kindly natures who
have recognized the interest and
worth Of this small creature.
We feel sorry for all those who.
not being victims of the disease
which caused one to physiologically
fear the cat, yet declare that they
hate cats"
They are voluntarily cutting them
selves off from friendship-and who
among men can do that without loss
to himself? For there are no crea-
lures among the animals more ready
to respond to friendship than the cat.
Even our ancient friend. the dog.
does not more genuinely show his
satisfaction with mans company
than does the cat. What a happy
sight is the winding of our friend
Tom around the table leg when he
is getting his dinner cut up for him!
It will not do to say he merely
puts up q display OF affection be-
cause of the dinner which he Is
about to receive. Certainly he Is
glad to get his dinner. Who isn't?
But there Is, too. much thanks and
affection in his actions, or we do not
know cats.
The man who does not like cats.
therefore, seems to us behind the
times. He is like the man who,
never having heard any but a crys-
tai radio receiving set, declares tndt
radio Is no good" Such man
owes it to himself to hear one of the
new sets, with power tube and CO.
ordinated loud speaker of the cone
type. The outfit will be a revelation
to him.
The gentleman who pretends to
despise cats owes it to himself To
secure nice kitten and bring ii
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