Show 10 LANGUAGE LANG OF CATS fret FRENCH CH PROFESSOR DECLARES HE understands understand IT he asserts moreover that he has he held id many pleasant con arsat ons with his fel ne friends iome be lieve the ani nal has a soul A french professor after much study has announced to the world that he has discovered the language of cats he asserts quite seriously that he has his held many pleasant conversations with his feline friends an I 1 that their 1 lin guage is most interesting avery time the professor meets a strange cat he tries to enter into converset conver sat on with it endeavoring thereby to in crease his vocabulary and to learn as many as possible po sible of the little idioms of cat talk the professor has not yet completed his dictionary of catalogs cat it will not be a very bulky book for so tar far as known the cat vocabulary has its limitations ons there are a few words however that are unmistakable when a cat says durrieu very softly he in means eans I 1 love you you are really very good to me that is when he is talking to Us lis human friends when a mother cat says that selfsame word only roll ing the r and giving a rising tion to the last syllable it is a call to her bab es As such it expresses a variety of things of course it signifies mater nal love it also means come here I 1 want to see you or it may mean hurry there is a dog coming this Is particularly the meaning when it is given sharply on a high key and ut several times in swift slon sion when a cat wants food he lie says abelio and when he wants water be he says allwoo the difference in sound Is slight but it Is there just the same when wants milk he makes a soft little la sound and when he wishes good raw meat he has a queer little half uttered bl DI which may be a contraction of blood this however the professor has not yet decided A delicacy of which his is so fond that he precedes eating by ad in mi ration fration as for example a mouse is asked tor for by the word which means affection and also raw meat he asks tor for delicacies by saying durrieu bl it is almost useless to explain the battle cry of the cat it is a sound familiar to all ears and one which may be recognized by any person whether an expert of the feline tongue or not however there are various stages of the battle cry ranging from a sharp note of warning to a prolonged howl of rage of all the cat cats s cries the one for human aid is the simplest and the softly but it is contains a world of pathos it Is a call which only a heart of stone could hear unmoved between the ordinary cry of greet ing and the cry ot of dislike there is a difference of accent only but it Is so marked that no one could possibly e one sound for the other meow says pussy when she greets you and she stretches her graceful body and rubs against you it is a very soothing purring bound sound and carrier carries more significance than a mere hollo it says oh there you are I 1 in so glad to see you I 1 ve been looking for ou and hoping you d come to see me soon but meow with an accent on the first syllable and the last very stac cato means hatred and defiance could linguistically ambitious per sons and those every ready to adopt a new fad tie be sufficiently attracted by the french professor professors s studies to emu late his example and study the cat language the standard of humanity would be greatly raised in order to study cat language one would have to study the cats them selves and to study the cats would a mean to appreciate them and alti to help them to regain a tithe of the former respect which was once theirs cat lovers simply laugh at the fuss which has been made over the french professor s announcement A man has discovered that cats f I 1 pi hay hays a language of their own ex ei clai ind a well known club woman whose cats are famous what a ve vey 7 wonderful person does he claim to be original in his discovery 7 9 why everyone who ever owned a cat and cared for it I 1 that cats talk they don dont t need to learn to talk we need to learn to listen and to under stand cats dogs horses all animals talk to us every day and the major ity ty ot of us go about the wor world id with our ears sealed to their words when we learn to open our ears and hear what they I 1 ave to say we shall be wiser and they will wil be happier for they will then come nearer having just 1 treatment reat Ireat ment accorded them it ItIs is partly ignorance which causes inhumanity the average human being is cruel only because he is ignorant of the way to be kind bind no indeed the world doean doesn t need to learn from the feet of a french pro fessor that cats have a language all it needs to do is to open its eyes to see and its ears cars to hear and use its brains to understand do you believe animals have souls L ts of wise people do A certain new york clergyman does no one can prove that they do not no one has proven reincarnation to be false therefore the soul of an ances or may occupy the body of your dog or your cat you would shrink from the idea of allf using your grandmother still there is a vague chance that her soul inhabits tabby s furry body VP P V ri the chance Is quite strong enough to make you very decent in your treat ment of tabby cats are clairvoyant in their nature if nothing else then superstition alone should compel tor for them kind treatment their cries on the back fence may be the wailing walling of weary restless souls souls no one can tell but any walling soul Is worthy of more indulgence than 1 Is manifest by a hailstorm of boots and iott cottles les lumps of coal and lurid language |