Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1911 — TUB CATS OF BOHEMIA. [ARTICLE]

TUB CATS OF BOHEMIA.

Deteem Th*™ • i* •• • • « * _ < •' ***** hot® Wtnßanu fAlrfr flwarm with 1 rjSETIS* ttS?of MlAoSos «tte Dowible to remember the Tenth street place apart from ite oontimrant led by the trig white cat with the stumpy yellow tail, or the Eleventh street place without seeing the enormous tabby that sits on the caahier’s desk behind Ifladama'a. shonldec. “In one rather pretentious case there ia a decorative frieze representing InnumeraNe biaek cate oaperiwg around the wall, while aaort Of artistic unity is maintained by tiro preaence of at least half a dozen living ones of the same color. At a certain Italian, restaurant, where one dines in the back yard durtrug the warm weather,'the fence is invariably decorated with cats who seem to be perfectly at home , and oooasionally leap down upon the tables or the shoulders of the guests. “ * ’‘Again I ask, why this almost Egyptian worship of the cat in the dining places of Bohemia? As matter of fart tiro artistic temperament ia very much divided on the subject. Your long haired genius is either very fond of v&IS of D’liXCMiy' tnfiarh 'ittwT T don't see why consideration should be extended to the tastes of only one-half of the table d’hote patrons, do you?”