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sweet cream rubbed on the coat induces the average 
eat to lick the hair down smoothly. 
The following advice on the care of cats, by C. 
H. Jones, editor of “The Cat Journal,” is reprinted, 
by permission from “Country Life in America” for 
November, 1902: 
“There are two mistaken opinions regarding cats; 
one, that the cat is a hardy animal; the other, that a 
eat, no matter: how or where abandoned, is able to 
provide for itself. 
“First, a cat is not a hardy animal; her organiza- 
tion is delicate, her nervous system sensitive. Second, 
a cat cannot always provide for herself, even in her 
natural state and with all her native instincts unim- 
paired. Even man, when unaided, often fails here. 
In hard winters the Indian starves in his wigwam, and 
the wild-cat starves in the woods. Much less, then, is 
a cat that is accustomed to the comforts of a home 
and the surroundings of civilized life able to take 
eare of herself. Of all the cats abandoned each year 
when the summer cottages are closed, the greater part 
lose their ‘nine lives’ and are ‘gathered to their 
fathers’ long before the winter is half over. 
“People who pay high prices for Persians and An- 
goras are willing to take pains to keep them in health 
and life, and they try to give them proper attention; 
but while care is needed, it is easy to give them 
too much if knowledge is lacking on the part of owners. 
The pet is fed with wrong foods at wrong times, and 
if a little indisposition manifests itself it is usually 
faithfully drugged and killed off in the best of style. 
