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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1938.

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CATS

There's a Boom in Them, & They're Changing Colour

· Declares-

GERALD BOWMAN,

who owns 14

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 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.

He is riding on

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

n wave

Hongkong Hotel Though space is not ample, there Counties Cat Club Show and, at

Garage

Phone 27778/0

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-

That's a good age-but by no Stubbs Rd.ing upon the cat.

means a record. They have lived to be 26, 28, and even 30. Undoubtedly cats arè, living longer nowadays than they used

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

to do.

Hongkong Telegraph. changing, too--at least in oul- cats. I have never ceased to ad-

TUESDAY, APÐIL 12, 1938.

TRIBUTE TO

GENIUS

I am incurably romantic about

ward appearance. How many mire their grace in leaping and

tabbies have you seen lately pouncing, their sinuous speed,

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But it is in their character

cination. Nobody

has

yet

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

that I find a never-ending fas- popular most To-day the colour of the domestic cat is blue, plumbed the eternal mystery of The result of the Austrian, strictly speaking, a grey cats.

which holds hint of blue. plebiscite is not an enormous Actually the cat is a creature They are unpredicatable in colours than the their likes and dislikes, in their surprise. But although the out-of far more

rainbow. He may be clothed in comings and goings. - come was never

in doubt, coats of more than two dozen the overwhelming majority of distinct hues, including orange, brown, silver, tortoise-shell, blue, the vote for the iden of

and cream-besides the plebeian "ein reich, ein fuehrer" is a garb commonly worn by "the little disconcerting to those who cat next door." believed that a considerable pro- portion of the Austrian people! at least did not relish the iden

canny aversion.

GRIN AND ́BEAR IT.

By Lichty

MANAGE

Lichten

L'albed Penture Wallets, us

3-16 "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

What

out

from

the 185

which examined by a Committee League of Nations.

were

of the

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

niha, of 30, 31 and 31 days, months, of

there is nothing to be said such a plan except that it is

splendid visions does the in its benefits, if any, that

30

A FIXED calendar! phrase summon! Visions of a one cannot see why anyone should regularised, rationalised, stan- trouble to bring it about. It exists, dardised time-world, in which therefore, in a modiñed and infinite- ly more radical form by which the human reason will have triumph- extra 365th day, which talls in the the brute facts of fourth quarter, is abstracted, so to ed over human passion and historical speak, from the year as a "Year Day" No other animal can be so en-prejudice, and in which the standing between the old and new

will years. shape of things to come

You get a year of exactly 52 weeks, thusiastically affectionate. None have lost half its terror since we of four equal quarters, with a blank can hate with such a silent, un-will always be sure that, what day between each pair of years. If ever happens, the first day of the last day of the year 1030 is Fri- day, December 31, then there follows Year Day, and after that, Saturday, I like cats for their shyness-the month will be a Sunday. and for the discerning quality In such a sane and simple reform January 1, 1937.

Under this scheme the date of the Creature of Beauty

of their affection which they at lust within our grasp?

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 To me, even the most love them.

lable to defy even the remofmers' 23 in 1937, then It will be to also in 1938 and 1939, and so on to the lowly of cats, with his

zenl. 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.

Year? That' And what of Leap when every one of the prepared to believe that by some coat, and his startled eyes, is a impenetrable reserve. They will dawned

months!-will have twenty-eight by the Introduction of a "Leap Day" system of intimidation or res-sheer loveliness, what domes rub against your legs, but not days, as every

creature of beauty. But for eat your food, drink your milk, months-every one of the thirteen wretched mischance is circumvented

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

The advantages of this project are even the cowardly compromise by trolled, or that the officials in aristocrats the silky and lan- liking lurk ancestral memories which the twelve months are retain- praised in cestalle language by the charge have not revealed the guorous Persians, the blue-eyed, of wilder days-memories stilled in a standardised form--It may be American society which sponsors It: chocolate-and-fawn Siamese, alive and vivid in the cat brain. that even this paltry step towards "It works in harmony with astro- the compass, the nomy, the seasons, the right is denied us. true result of the poll, it must the metallic blue Russians?

What a picture of savage

zodiac, and the pertest division inhe- be supposed that Austria indeed

TWELVE. It follows the prophetic Next time you are awakened beauty the cat presents when, WHAT is the difficulty? Why is it rent in the traditional number pr that great city which had is pleased, as a whole, with the

n And yet, how a reform for which common sense political union with her larger wauling, calm yourself with the side its long taik

the traditional overwhelmingly argues? The ans-

wes is, I regret to say, nature, the sides, "it would not bring the neighbour. And because it reflection that in satisfying their incomplete is

taste for rodents, cats save out a cat purring its pleasure on picture of domestic felicity with- takes a lively imagination to

Britain property amounting to conceive of a system of in-4,000,000 a year.

the hearth-rug.

timidation or restraint or cor-

to ruption sufliciently efficient escape detection at some point,,

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in anger by a midnight cater angry, it lashes from side to that civilised man is barred from deste great and high and had twelve

This kind of thought induces a proper respect for cat--a feel-

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6. Which last is to be regarded as a

The year has 365 days; the cosmos calendar down to the low level of does not use the decimal system. Now changeless, dull routine.""" 365 is a number which cannot be

nt the other American society divided evenly by seven, the nur

the number which favours the rival method of of days in the week, or by twelve, reform the thirteen-month year- the number of months in the year. each month of exactly 28 days, cach

This fact imposes an initial

ending on a Saturday, and the extra culty in the task of standardisation." month beginning on a Sunday and It is not the only one. For the year month pushed in between June and has not 365 days at all, but, roughly and called, with splendid falik. speaking, 305 and a quarter. It is sol

dim-

Dual Personality

THAT shows the gentler side of this animal even those who do not like the people, voted in a way favour-with the dual personality. The idea of Austro-German unity able to the anschluss idea, as cat will not be chained or tied

for this reason that we interpolated The difficully of the 305th must now prepare to admit that it is, even though common sense it obey the voice of command; icap year. More difficulty. More usual method of a "blank" Year Day like a dog; only if it pleases will twenty-ninth day in February this remains. It is dealt with by the Austria is satisfied. has indeed checks the suspicion, there will it demands the right to go out confusion. got what her majority wanted always be persons who believe and come in wherever and when-end. For although the year is 365 Even here the problem does not

are

ber.

fnct 11

between the years.

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identified opposition. One can-most hotly will admit the im- As a foster-mother the cat is Gregory took the matter in hand.

instinct so highly developed. In the year 1582, therefore, Pope four Saturdays fall.

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Cre

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Now, to which of the two faiths all the time, it seems. Whore

days and that the plebiscite vote does not ever it pleases.

quarter in leng are we to give allegiance? And must roughly speaking, it is in But what other animal shows minutes and 14 seconds less in strict tore these questions can be answered we become converted to any? Be- those

thousands of the represent the true, free and

we must kn

know who it is that demands working classes who formerly fearless verdict of the whole such a touching attachment to selentifle fact.

its home? For cats to travel Ignore those eleven minutes?

Ule change and on what grounds? Julius Caesar, who was a practical Unjust business differences were popularly supposed to hate

nation.

back from a new house to one man, did ignore them when he took caused by the inequalities in the the very name of Nazis? Did

Whatever the interpretation recently vacated is common. over the Egyptian calendar and im- 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-

year with year. 250 or 300 miles, and to arrive the result was that the calendar year commoded in their comparisons of they must have done; for out of

run ahead of the solar year, the spring of individuals

If the millions are paid monthly opinion

mayin the last stages of exhaustion. equinox receded from March 23 10 they mut In tho Ave-Saturday the 48,000,000 who went to the be about the justice of the

March 11, and, if things had been months buy groceries for a fifth week And with all their scarcely allowed to drift for long enough, we out of an unvarying monthly allow polls only a mere 452,000 had German action in Austria's case, tumed ferocity, in no other do- should have been celebrating the ance. If they are paid weekly, on the temerity to record their un-even those who have criticised mestic animal is the maternal longest day in the month of Decem- Saturday, then they suffer hardship during a long month wherein only

But, it may be asked, will the. not help wondering, however.pressive effect of this final act unrivalled. She will not only lle rectified the calculation of leap statisticians (whom we must all res- 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 benefied by

seventy years Inter Britain in fact one day would be left out suit of the plebiscite Dr. Kurt drama. There is no denying own species, but also mother-andre effective. One hundred equalisation of the quarters, when less babies of her enemies and adopted the reform at a cost of 11 of reckoning? People would be born, Schuschnigg had planned. The the genius behind the whole

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day, Berlin allegation was that the iden, the perfection the birds, oven mice, having lost

then, the calendar reformera As for the Sol-worshippers, would would have prevented timing of the coup, the sound their mothers, have been kept have the highly rompectable exam- thirteen months rules

really bo nlive through the mercy of a ple of the Vatican to point to, it is venient division of the year? You thousands of Nazis voting at all. psychological judgment not only cat,

also clear that they cannot in fact cannot divide thirteen Info quarters. JABAQ | And, of course, the Jewish of persons directly affected, but|

provide

a neat even, symmetrical As the rival conventicle justly ob- Cats are intelligent-more so year. For they have to deal with a

serves,

"the whole univerze would citizens of Austria would have those near enough to feel the than many a dog. Cats are days tons, an awkward fact, and

time-period which is sometimes 305 groun under a false division of time." had the right to put their marks repercussions in any way. Yes, heroic. Cats will never any dit sometimes 386, a all more awkward A caso can be made for the re- formned. ealendar on the grounds of on the ballot-puper. Under Herr daring, efficiency and remarka-The list of those who have saved fnet.

human lives by giving the alarm They are attempting to bring regu- convenience to business, order in 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

essential nature, irrégular.

that public holidays will fall on not have a vote. It sCOMA of the German strategists have is a lengthy and a growing one; Whatever they do, they must allow suitable" days. Governments favour. pity that the "occupation" of assuredly been shown on this

for the periodle Intervention of leap the reformed twelve-month plan; All these things explain why I year day. As a result, they cannot, railways, it is said, hanker after Austria had to be accomplished occasion.

on. The

Their achievement am an impenitent lover of one with the best will in the world, offer thirteen months, before this test of public opinion may not make them any better of the most courageous, patient, chiangeable system of time-conputa that the interpolated day in a poor the millions now suffering under a The public will próbábly decide was carried out. How much loved or trusted, but it will earn the world. It explains why I plexities.

and quick-thinking animals in tion a complete rollet from their per- device und that the disturbance of a

"great change outweighs the mubsc more convincing it would have them a further measure of res- have 14-and wouldn't part What, then, is it they propose? quent, and doubtful, beneft to stalls-

with one of them.:

There are two schemes which stand Uclans and, perhips, to tis. been had Austrians, as a free pect.

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