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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1988.

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HERE'S a boom in cats. And I claim to have made a considerable contribution towards it. I own

14.

The free-roaming and free-of-tax cat has never been UP-TO-DATE PROCESS subject to the population restrictions that hedge around the licensed dog, but to-day the cat has a greater oppor- tunity of increasing and multiplying than ever.

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He is riding on a wave of ing which is heightened when popularity brought about by the you come to consider such grand growing disposition of people to old veterans as Tibby, who was live in small houses and flats. placed on view at the Southern

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The

is still the urge for a pet to grace the ripe age of 23, is claimed to the domestic hearth-rug-and be the oldest Abyssinian cat. the choice is more and more fall- Stubbs Rd.ing upon the cat.

That's a good age-but by no means A record. They have lived to be 26, 28, and even 30.

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1938.

TRIBUTE TO GENIUS

So great is the demand that a pet census would probably re- veal twice as many cats as dogs in the country to-day.

The cat himself is subtly

changing, too at least in out- ward appearance. How many tabbies have you seen lately

They have become almost rare, yet a few years ago this striped, tiger-like prowler was the most common of his tribe.

Undoubtedly cats are living longer nowadays than they used

to do.

I am incurably romantic about

cats. I have never ceased to ad- mire their grace in leaping and

pouncing, their sinuous speed,

and their miraculous powers of hearing.

But it is in their character

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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By Lichty:

Lichten

– United Vaclava žyndasta, re

"and I hope, Miss Clancy, that you're not considering this job

merely a stepping stone to marriage!"

This is Easter week, and time to ask why don't we have

FIXED CALENDARS

By

George Malcolm Thomson

that I find a never-ending fas-A

FIXED calendar!

What

out

from the 185 which were a Committee of the examined by League of Nations.

The first proposes to equalise three of the four quarters of the year, so that each contains three months of 30, 30 and 31 days respectively. The fourth quarter would contain three months, of 30, 31 and 31 days.

Now, there is

to be said nothing plan except that it is To-day the most popular cination. Nobody has yet splendid visions does the against such

so trifling in its benefits, if

that uny, colour of the domestic cat is blue, plumber the eternal mystery of phrase summon! Visions of a one cannot see why anyone should The result of the Austrian or, strictly speaking, a grey cats.

regularised, rationalised, stan- trouble to bring it about. It exists, therefore, in a modified and infinite- dardised time-world, in which plebiscite is not an enormous

ly more radical form by which the They are unpredicatable in human reason will have triumph- extra 365th day, which falls in the surprise. But although the out-of far more colours than the their likes and dislikes, in their ed over the brute facts of fourth quarter, is abstracted, so to

rainbow. He may be clothed in comings and goings. couts of more than two dozen

the vote for the idea of

at least did not relish the idea

prepared to believe that by some

system of intimidation or res-

idea

a lively imagination

which holds 蹑 hint of blue. Actually the cnt is a creature

Creature of Beauty

To me, even the most lowly of cats, with his

This kind of thought induces ja proper respect for cat—a feél-

canny aversion.

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nomy, the seasons, the compass, the zodiac, and the perfect division inhe- rent in the traditional number

What a picture of savage beauty the cat presents when, WHAT is the difficulty? Why is it ELVE. It follows the prophetle that civilised man is barred from design of that great city which had angry, it lashes from side to side its long tail. And yet, how reform for which common sense a wall

wall great and high and had twelve incomplete is the traditional overwhelmingly argues? The ans- picture of domestic felicity with- is, I regret to say, nature, the out a cat purring its pleasure on the hearth-rug.

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human passion and historical speak, from the year as a "Year Day" come Was never in doubt, the overwhelming majority of distinct hues, including orange, thusiastically affectionate. None shape of things to come will You

No other animal can be so en- prejudice, and in which the standing between the old and new You get a year of exactly 52 weeks. brown, silver, tortoise-shell, blue, and cream-besides the plebeian

can hate with such a silent, un-have lost half its terror since we of four equal quarters, with a blank will always be sure that, what- day between each pair of years. If "ein reich, ein fuehrer" is algarb commonly worn by "the

ever happens, the first day of the last day of the year 1930 is Fri- day, December 31, then there follows little disconcerting to those who cat next door."

I like cats for their shyness the month will be a Sunday. Year Day, and after that, Saturday, and for the discerning quality

In such a sane and simple reform January this scheme the date of the believed that a considerable pro-

Under of their affection which they at last within our grasp? portion of the Austrian people |

Hopes of it are premature. We month always falls on the same day bestow only upon those who deal here with intractable material, of the week. If Tuesday is March love them.

labic to defy even the remofmers' 23 in 1937, then It will be so also

... zeal.

in 1930 and 1939, and so on to the of anschluss. Unless one is lithe, native grace, his smooth Yet always there remains that It may be that the day has not yet end of recorded time.

coat, and his startled eyes, is a impenetrable reserve. They will dawn very one of the thirteen wretched mischunce is circumvented And what of Leap Year? That crenture of beauty. But for eat your food, drink your milk. months!--will have twenty-eight by the introduction of a "Leap Day" sheer loveliness, what domes rub against your legs, but not days, as every right-thinking man between June and July. traint the plebiscite was con- ticated animal can surpass the far beneath the surface of their sees it ought to have. It may be that trolled, or that the officials in aristocrats-the silky and lan- liking lurk ancestral memories which the twelve months are retain- praised in cestatie language by the

even the cowardly compromise by The advantages of this

project are & CO., LTD. charge have not revealed the guorous Persians, the blue-eyed, of wilder days-memories skilled in a standardised form-it may be American society which sponsors it:

true result of the poll, it must the metallic blue Russians?

chocolate-and-fawn Siamese, alive and vivid in the cat brain. that even this paltry step towards "It works in harmony with astro-

the right is denied us. be supposed that Austria indeed

Next time you are awakened is pleased, as a whole, with the

in anger by a midnight cater- political union with her larger wauling, calm yourself with the neighbour. And because it reflection that in satisfying their

Besides, "it would not bring the takes

taste for rodents, cats save

aes to

Britain property amounting to

The year has 365 days: the cosmos calendar down to the low level of a conceive of a system of in-£4,000,000 a year.

does not use the decimal system. Now changeless, dull routine." 365 is a number which cannot be blow at the other American society Which last is to be regarded as a timidation or restraint or cor-

divided evenly by seven, the number which favours the rival method of Dual Personality

of days Ini Die week, or by twelve, reform-the thirteen-month year ruption sufficiently efficient to

number of months in the year each month of exactly 28 days, cach escape detection at some point,

THAT shows the gentler This fact imposes an initial all month beginning on a Sunday and even those who do not like the people, voted in a way favour-with the dual personality. The has not 385 days at all, but, roughly July and called, with splendid faltii.

side of this animal culty in the task of standardisation.

It is not the only one. For the year month pushed in between June and ending on a Saturday, and the extra of Austro-German unity able to the anschluss idea. As cat will not be chained or tied speaking, 365 and a quarter. It is must now prepare to admit that it is, even though common sense it obey the voice of command; leap year. More

like a dog; only if it pleases will for this reason that we interpolated The dimculty of the 305th day a twenty-ninth day in February this remains. It is dealt with by the Austrin is satisfied, has indeed checks. the suspicion, there will it demands the right to go out confusion.

dificulty. More usual method of a "blank" Year Day got what her majority wanted always be persons who belleve and come in wherever and when-end. For although the year is 365

belween the years. Even here the problem does not ail the time, it seems. Where that the plebiscite vote does not ever it pleases.

Now, to which of the two faiths days and 4 quarter in length, those thousands of the represent the true, free and

are we to give allegiance? And must But what other animal shows minutes and 14 seconds less in strict fore these questions can be answered

roughly speaking, it is in fact 11

we become converted to any? Be- working classes who formerly fearless verdict of the whole such a touching attachment to scientific feat.

we must know who it is that demands its home? For cats to travel were popularly supposed to hate

nation.

Ignore those eleven minutes? back from a new house to one man, did ignore them when he took cause

Julius Caesar, who was a practical the change and on what grounde? Did the very name of Nazis?

"Unjust business differences" are Whatever the interpretation recently vacated is common. over the Egyptian calendar and im

caused by the inequalities in the they, too, vote "yes?" It seems of this result, whatever the They have been known to walk posed it on the Roman Empire. But quarters of years. Statisticians are in- they must have done; for out of opinion of individuals

260 or 300 miles, and to arrive the result was that the calendar year commoded in their comparisons of

year with year. the 48,000,000 who went to the be about the justice of the

may in the last stages of exhaustion.an ahead of the solar year, the spring If the millions are paid monthly

equinox receded from March 23 to Murch 21, and, if things had been months buy groceries for

they must in the five-Saturday polls only a mere 152,000 had German action in Austria's case, tamed ferocity, in no other do- should have been celebrating

And with all their scarcely allowed to drift for long enough, we out of an unvarying monthly allow the temerity to record their un-even those who have criticisedmestic animal is the maternal longest day in the month of Decem- Saturday, then they suffer hardship ance. If they are paid weekly, on identified opposition. One can- most hotly will admit the im-Instinct

ber. но highly developed. As a foster-mother the cat is Gregory took the matter in hand.

In the year 1582, therefore, Pope during a long month wherein only not help wondering, however,pressive effect of this final act unrivalled. She will not only Ho rectified the calculation of icop statisticians (whom we must all res-

four Saturdays fall,

But, It may be asked, will the what would have been the re- of Herr Hitler's modern political nurse and feed orphans of her year, and abolished ten days to make peet) really be benefited sult of the plebiscite Dr. Kurt drama, There is no denying own species, but also mother-id contrave. One hurted equalisation of the quarters, when

seventy Schuschnigg had planned. The the genius behind the

less babies of her enemies and adopted the reform at a cost of 1 of reckoning? People would be born. Britain in fact one day would be left out whole her

victims. Many puppies, days. Berlin allegation was that the idea, the perfection of the birds, even mice, having lost

die, earn and spend money on that day. rules would have prevented timing of the coup, the sound their mothers, have been kept, then, the calendar reformers As for the Sol-worshippers, would thousands of Nazis voting at all. psychological judgment not only cat.

alive through the mercy of a ple of the Vatican to point to, it is venient division of the year? You have the highly respectable exam- thirteen months really be a con- And, of course, the Jewish of persons directly affected, but

also clear that they cannot in fact cannot divide thirteen info quarters. provide a neat even, symmetrical As the rival conventiele Justly ob- citizens of Austria would have those near enough to feel the than many

Cats are intelligent-more so year. For they have to deal with a serves, "the whole universe would a dog. Cats are time-period which is sometimes 305 Broan under a false division of time." had the right to put their marks repercussions in any way. Yes, heroic. Cats will never say dic. days long, an awkward fact, and on the ballot-paper. Under Herr daring, efficiency and romarka-The list of those who have saved fact.

sometimes 300, a still more awkward A case can be made for the re- formed calendar an the grounds of human lives by giving the alarm Hitler's direction the Jews did ble synchronisation on the part in fires and other emergencies larity into something which is, in its economic relations and an assurance

They are attempting to bring regu- convenience to business,

order la not have a vote. It seems a of the German strategists have is a lengthy and a growing onc.

essential nature, irregular.

that public holidays will fall on pity that the "occupation" of assuredly

Whatever they do, they must allow suitable days. Governments favour been shown on this All these things explain why I year day. As a result, they cannot, railways, it sold, hanker

for the periodic Intervention of leap the reformed twelve-month plan Austria had to be accompllaked occasion. Their achievement am an impenitent lover of one with the best will in before this test of publie opinion may not make them any better of the most courageous, patient, the millions now, suffering offer, thirteen months.

under a

The public will probably docido was carried out. How much loved or trusted; but it will earn and quick-thinking animals in tion a complete reillet from their per- device and that the disturbance, of

changeable system of time-computa- tint the interpolated day is a poor the world. It explains why I plexities. more convincing it would have them a further measure of res- have 14-and

great change outweighs the subse wouldn't part What, then, is it they proposer quent, and daubtful, boneft to stalls- been had Austrians, as a‘free pect,

with one of them.

There are two schemes which stand ficlans and, perhaps, to us.

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