Concerning Kittens 



cat has never been known to succeed as a rope- 

 walker. 



The humor in a cat is proven very clearly by Herr 

 Techow's clown cat, who wears the customary head- 

 gear peculiar to that species of entertainer, and bur- 

 lesques his associates in the same way a man circus 

 clown runs under the elephants instead of jumping 

 over them. Herr Techow says that the proverb to 

 the effect that you cannot kill a cat with kindness, is 

 singularly true. A dog, according to his experience, 

 has to be whipped occasionally, or it becomes spoiled 

 and no longer amenable to intellectual stimulus. 

 Everybody knows how much sweeter is a canine that 

 has been chastened and received with full forgiveness 

 than the terrier that has become insanely optimistic. 

 But a cat never forgets a blow, nor licks the boot 

 which administers a kick. Herr Techow never 

 uses a whip until his cats have perfect confidence 

 in him and treat him as one of the family, and 

 even then he only gives them slight taps as signals. 

 In fact, I noticed (when privileged to go behind the 

 scenes at Keith's Theatre, in Boston) that his cats 

 seem particularly fond of him, uniting in a chorus of 

 " purr-me-e-ows " when they hear his voice, and 

 scramble all over him when let out of their cages. 



Another European trainer who has accomplished 

 wonders in this direction is a young Greek, Leonidas 

 Amiotis, and he has accomplished the difficult feat 

 of teaching dogs and cats to work together in har- 



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