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Show Should Anyone Call You ''Catty," Make No Mistake; It's a Compliment ,ACTRESS SAYS CAT TAUGHT HER BEAUTY OF MOVEMENT MOVE-MENT AND REPOSE BY DJUNA BARNES. NEW YORK Have you ever felt lyou lacked a certain grace' Have you ever wondered If you had somehow missed knowing all the se cret of that mystic thin charm? Go get you a cat, fair lady, and be a humble student at its feet ! Perhaps you already own a cat, but i if you don't you should. N'o great wo-'man wo-'man in blston thought to got along yvlthout one. So says Fania Mannoff, the actress , wife of the author, Carl Vpn erhten Her hueband has just written a book all about the caiF. so she ought to know. "Cats are particularly Indispensable to women vho simply must exert their 'charm.'1 says Fanla. "If ou are In a i business y here charm Is not needed (and I know of no such business) vhv I you can afford to neglect llu feline ! element, but not in any other case ALL LEARNED FROM CAT "The women in the past, the great i sirens, the gTcat lovers, the great rld-jdles rld-jdles and the great Intellectuals, have, all of them, learned the trick from the house cat "Hypatia may have picked up a book on economics, but it s a sure bet that Cleopatra and Madame du Barry pic ked up a tabby. I "Watch the 'smart woman- she is i invariably a cat lover 'When a man wants de.-i rlbe a 'woman who has exerted some indis-cribable indis-cribable influence on his life, he will irrrtl lli nail, luar.T i r i,-rv tures, and suddenly his face will lmh' up 'feline' he will ejaculate, like a tiger, you know " "Why''" she was asked W.itch its long deliberate move menis, the mysterious languid eyes, eyes composed of some kind of cold Intolerably beautiful fire its soft paws, hiding the terrible and swift claws, the apparently gentle purring that ever so slightly disturbs the shining. Immaculate Immac-ulate fur " as it not because of these thincs that they made the Cat god In Etx p' ages ago, and was li not because of CtiH Wm t:' iBom ' Ml Swift TV J It was a cat who made me realize what can be done with an eyelid." j these same qualities, that they drove cats out of Puritan England, as yyitches were driven out of Salem9 "And are not black cats a sign of .ill luck, and white of impending Rood ! fortune "" VALUE OF AN EYE-LID. Fania's husband had to read 3000 books or so on cats before he knew enough about them to attempt a book, but Fania could have told him if he had listened lo her, because as she says : "I have lain on the flor very quietly, making no movement, showing no sign of life, just to watch a cat rise up, yawn, and begin pacing It was a cat who taught me how to rise up how to awn how to pace It was a cat who made me realize what can be done I with an eyelid A beautiful woman should have no swift movementsi except " and here Fanla Marinoff; half closed her eyes "except when i she Is ready to drop the paw 'The cat is called the only domesli Cated animal who has refused to be domestic Because of this, perhaps, it 'has made civilisation possible a cWJ lization that could be at once hauphty 'and bending. "The cat has taught us what we know of poise, of beauty of line; of svmmetry, and of repose, thai repose I which Is never weariness; that laziness lazi-ness that is never rest. "And, ' she finished, "no matter how beautiful and attractive ynu may be, :i j cat will never teach you anything you 1 cannot use " |