ed cats
were, six or eight lost cats from the Shelter for Animals (where lost
and homeless cats are cared for) were exhibited near the haughty
Angoras. All but one looked sadly out of place. They were thin, their
fur was uneven, and the disdainful sniffs which their Persian and Angora
neighbors gave them made them feel very miserable indeed. But one of
them, though, a short-haired cat, looked as if his grandfather had been
a somebody in the cat kingdom, and he seemed to say,

"Though appearances are against me, please don't think that I belong to
this vulgar herd of tramp cats."

And he was vindicated, for the third day of the show a little girl came
rushing over to the cage with a glad cry of recognition, which the cat
immediately responded to by joyful purring. The cat had been lost for
over two weeks, and now as his young mistress took him away he looked
back at his proud long-haired neighbors with a smile, which meant,

"Ah, you see I'm somebody, after all!"

Perhaps the readers of the ROUND TABLE would like to know whether their
cats and kittens are "somebody" or not, whether they are pure-blooded
examples of the classes to which they belong. It is quite simple. A
prominent doctor, who knows more about cats than almost any other man in
the United States, says that in judging a cat the first thing to be
considered is its general symmetry.

"The body ought to be long and slenderly shaped, like that of a tiger.
The eyes should be of a correct shade; for instance, a cat that is white
should have blue eyes, a black cat yellow eyes, and so on. The eyes,
too, should be round and full. The color of a cat is important, and is
the key to its character. A cat of one color should have no other hue in
its coat. The most rarely marked cat is the tortoise-shell, uneven
patches of red, black, and yellow, equally distributed over the body. In
the tabbies the dark markings should be in direct contrast with the
light, gray or brown being marked with black, while blue is marked with
some darker shade, and yellow with red."

So successful was this first cat show that it is almost settled that
another one will be held next fall. A cat club is to be formed, as
exclusive as some of the kennel clubs to which the cats' canine enemies
belong. So that hereafter when a proud-looking Angora goes to call on a
Maltese friend, the question no longer will be: "How many birds have you
killed lately?" or, "How do you find your milk these days?"