Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1911 — CAT’S CHORUS [ARTICLE]

CAT’S CHORUS

Harlemite Says Feline Plague Abroad at Night Drives Men to Beat Their Spouses.

New York. —It's out at last. Here is revealed the origin of that mysterious Influence that engenders crankiness and grouches—that makes normally pious men swear at unoffending women, fire obliging servants and beat their wives. Whisky? Nay. Cats —Just cats — c-a-t-s; that’s all. List to this exposition of the case as It came from a troubled Harlemite: “I want to bring before you the trouble and nuisance that I have had from cats. There is a lot on One Hundred and Thirteenth street, between Broadway and Amsterdam avenge, which is filled with lumber which answers for a brooder for raising cats. I think there are twentyfive cats in this block that no one seems to shelter, and they make the night's rest anything but comfortable. They affect the women’s nerves so that it 1& practically impossible to please them or to keep a maid, or even to live in the same house with them. “It has been so trying on my nerves that I five n go to the office and jump on my employes with no reason, except that I have lost my patience. Last night the people across the street were not only throwing water out of the window, but bottles, tin cans, electric light bulbs and even a garbage can, which sounded in the dead of the night as if it was an explosion. *lt upset my nerves so that when I got to my offloe this morning I swore