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Washington newspaperman. When the cat developed a foot infection, Jesse Jones talked a leading Johns Hopkins urologist into taking the case. For seven weeks Mr. White regularly made the 40-mile trip to John Hopkins in a taxi, as a patient of the famous specialist.
Tommy Clark, an ex-alley resident of Seneca Falls, N. Y., had a bank account of $300 when he turned up his paws. This was the hoarding of gift money presented to him at four birthday parties. It bought him a handsome tombstone. History is silent as to what Dinah, a tortoise-shell from Albany, N. Y., did with the $100 windfall she won in the Irish sweepstakes.
In England, humans born on the wrong side of the tracks have social standing definitely inferior to blue-blooded tabbies. The pusses' social register. Cats and Kittens, carries dignified announcements of feline visits, birth and deaths. A typical birth notice: "Mrs. Wilson Burrasford's Booful — 7 kittens: 1 blue, 2 black, 4 torties — by Miss Cadell's Sinakululo."
In aristocratic circles, especially designed cat combs and brushes are available to keep that kittenish complexion. A study of Napoleonic times reveals it was commonplace for French dandies to carry cat combs in their pockets to curry their ladies' pets.
Of an estimated 20,000,000 cats in the United States, about 40% board with families, 10% try luck-of-theroad, 50% earn a living as ratcatchers in barns, factories, restaurants, prisons, churches, ships, etc.
August, 1931
Highest-salaried felines are found in Hollywood, where cat thespians earn between $15 and $20 a day.
Until her demise, Minnie Esso, a tiger-colored tabby employed by Standard Oil of New Jersey to keep rats out of their laboratory, earned $4.40 a month, itemized on the payroll as "fish for Minnie." Starting as an apprentice at $3.20 a month, Minnie soon won a raise when it was discovered she had over 100 dependents.
Foreign cats have a somewhat lower standard of living. Argentina's United River Plate Telephone Company pays its tabbies only 50 centavos a day liver money. Even less generous is France's national library, Bihliotheque TV^ationale, which protected book bindings from being gnawed for only 60c a year per cat.
Puss has his day in court. A Cleveland judge recently ruled that a cat has a perfect right to bite any person who steps on his tail. Two Pennsylvania miners were convicted of disorderly conduct when caught eating cats. In a suit for $50 veterinary expenses, a Boston judge decreed that cats could not be convicted of rape.
THE tabby will probably never again reach the godly status he enjoyed in ancient Egypt, where temples were built to him, jewels hung in his ears, and cat holidays celebrated publicly.
But through the ages he never lacked distinguished worshippers, like Mohammed, who cut off the sleeve of his gown rather than disturb a cat sleeping upon it. Dr. Johnson used