Evening star., 1950-02-08
This and That.
By Charles E. TraceweH
ALLISON STREET,


Dear Sir:
While all your articles are interesting
have particularly enjoyed your rather recent
ones regarding cats. 81.
II am lover of the little animals, and
feel that they give more to their owner than
Is given to them. 1t is interesting to read
that others find that too many as pets are
not quite as satisfying as at least two
II don't approve Of just one.
II suppose every cat, or other pet, needs
companionship. am taking the liberty
OF enclosing my recent seasons greetings.
The two cat personalities spoken of in it
were my pets for about year, but both left
me within eight days of each other, having
contracted the vicious and almost always
fatal enteritis
My mother SiameSe seems to be immune
due to her age of three years. In March
hope she will present me with q litter of
pure-bred Siamese kittens, and know as
well as am writing this letter that I will
then be member of the same league to
which your friend Templeton Jones, belongs,
i.e., five pets or more in the household.
Most sincerely, RAD"
The atom bomb was terrible enough, but
the hydrogen bomb is definitely too much,
one thinks.
will justify themselves to God?
Are they going to let this terror continue,
and their children to suffer from it?
What becomes Of their professions of love?
On are we all children, in the last analysis,
unable to check or handle the terrible
trends the human mind has developed?
It may be that childless people will thank
their God many times over, in the days to
come.
They at least, will have minds at peace.
Pets cannot reasonably masquerade as
children. Only the foolish perhaps, try to
make them so.
Animals kept as friends in human COM
pany are animals, part of the great creation.
1t is unquestionably true that cats and
dogs like company Of their own kind Care
full observation further reveals that they do
not like too much of it. A cat friend yes, but
not friends. Two is company, three's crowd
is particularly true Tor the house cat tribes.
They are not too sold on their own tribe. Is
mankind coming to that animal point, at
last? Can we look each other in the eye any
more, in view Of the terrible things the
human mind Is thinking UP for all of us?
Fortunately, the innocent creatures of
the Wild in which category we must include
the cat no matter now domestic we have
made it, cannot think up any more terror
than that which the creator gave them in
the first place.
1t is at once the glory and despair of man
that he, fortunate or unfortunate creature
that he is, knows how to think from point to
point The animals do not know how to do
it, except in very rudimentary degree, and
SO are saved our triumphs and our sorrows.
As terrible as the real and postulated
bombs are or may be. they are the result of
the working of the human brain, let us say
the God-given BRAIN
Man at the crossroads has always had to
go forward.
There seems nothing else to do.
We go on, because we are human.
The animals stopped at creation.
They have nothing to go on with, and no
place to go If they could go on.
They are at standstill in eternity.
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The glory of man is that, he can and must
go on, wherever his going leads.
He has had fateful rendezvous with destiny
in the past, He has one now.
What win he do with it?
This Is the greatest opportunity in history
| for all God-fearing people to get together
| and pray, for the sake of themselves, their
children. their animals, and their God.