BRITISH V : B 16, 8A ar AY, Dect > done M. H. Grass, of Collins Bay, Writes About the Relationship Existing 'Between the Three. Collins 'Bay, Dec. J.--(To the Edi. tor): In the very ancient and wide spread fecling that women, cats and the re linked together by cer tuin a of the A © moon is invari ably apostrophized as "she." Invari- a we dssociate cats with a mis- tress, abd not with a mastér, and wo- map throughout the ages has been called either "a . full moon of loveli- nesa' one side or a "cat" by the « We mever associate the sun with the feminine, nor do we think of dogs a8 a type as feminine, and when the most curious human . mind a man is compared with, either the moon or cats it gives us a distinct shock, | . We never picture g witch flying into the sun with a dog on her shoulder, but the bol of the old lady on the broomaticf vi a black cat on her shoulder flying across the moon is one that exists in all countries. In Rubastis, in andient Egypt, where re- ligion was most highly specialized in the world, eats were directly repre- sented as being a. part of a trinity composed of the moon, women and themselves. * Even Isis, the wile of the great god Asiris, was sometimes thus represented. Indeed, as far back as we can go in Fgypt the cat symbolized the moon, and In the significance body always bore the head of a man, Perhaps there were some natural reasons for this association--undoubt- edly there must have *heen--which were more to our angient forefathers than to us. The curious influence of the moon upon the majority of people, which tends to stimulate suggestabil- ity, hysteria' and other subconscious phenomena more in women than in men, is probably one reason. The ef- fect of the moon upon cats, which love to prowl under its rays in the night, and the similarity of its wax- ing find waning with the dilation and contracting a.cat"s eyes is, no doubt, also one of the reasons at the bottom of this association. The feline love of comfort and luxury and its general attitude of tolerating more that welcoming de- monstrations of affection is in itself! an attitude which women during the long ages of their repression by man intensified for their own protection. There is little doubt that the trait was noticed by observers throughout' the world who make superstitions. Superstition is 'usually, by the way only true psychology with the wrong dress. There is a basis of truth at the bottom of all of it. The mind of man cannot create something out of nothing. He must have the basis of the actual to work upon. If he twists and disguises his bais it is simply a task of keen minds to strip the husking from the kernel of truth and find out just what it is that gave rise to the superstition. There is, too, the changeableness of the moon which poets have al- ways found An analogy for the shift- ing of women's moods. At the be- ginning there is no doubt that the curious association of the three was complimentary. Diana the moon goddess, on one of the old Roman poems turns herself into a cat to help the gods in their fight against the Titans. And in all the earlier myths, women, cat and the moon are invariably bound to- gether in complimentary fashion. Later, when through causes of which we know little; the supersti- tions of all races degenerated,-this complimentary quality was lost, and, even with the moon, stress was laid upon the unpleasant similarities. Compliment was turned to insuit. Nevertheless the superstitions in- verted, as they were, ran on with full, if not fuller force In the Middle Ages, and alter, wo- men were bound at the stake when convicted of the charge that they had conversed with a devil in the shape of a black cat. Cats were connected with all baleful influences of the moon. In Yucatan the descendants of the Mayas pinched their nails to drive away an eclipse. As emblems of the devil they were flung into the fire in Paris on St. Jobn's. night The mystic seven return again in Hungary legend that every black cat turns into a witch at the age of seven. Grimm gives it as a common say- rsd its Wo- | { likenesses we have one of 1 The Third Time Carr Anna read the news of the bank's failure and a gray pallor set tled over her face. - So her mone; was gone! hands, large, homely, and work-ras ped, clutched unconsciously at the as theugh they clutched at the trip! to her home of which she was again | deprived. She looked through the car window at the old buildings she | had looked at twice a day for many years. Eight-- no it, was going on! the minth, And to think that once she had heen glad that she had left the old country behind! She- had léarned te hate those buildings be- | fore three years passed, and she hac | nearly enough saved to take her back to the old dull land where her par ents apd Johann lived. It came as a bitter shock to'learn that the brightest spot that Americ: cared to show her was a shirt anc overall factory. But she had workec fiercely, regardless of weariness and | smarting eyes and hunger until she had saved enough to pay for her pas sage to the little, dull oldinland town Then she had fallen sick, typhoid | the disease was ealled here. Her sav- | ings vanished. She got well and| again began to save. But this time not so fiercely. She was careful t« eat enough to keep up her strength So the mickels were added more slow ly. She had almost enough, whe: another girl in the shirt and overal factory collapsed one day and had tJ be sent home in an ambulance. 'Rest the doetor prescribed. The girl had a "mother tv support. Anna had virh ed them. Semehow Lena's frail old mother reminded her of her own in Germany. She didn't want to---Sho cried hot salt tears over it-- but sh could not see the frightened, help less old woman starve. For that was what it would mean. So sh gave Lena her savings with a care lees "Ach, it is not mueh. And you can pay me back-----oh any time." Lena took it unwillingly. And, cf, course she never paid it back. The third saving had not been so hard as the second. Another threo weeks would have seen it ended. Now it was indeed ended. For sh: knew that she never would hav . the . spirit to begin another stretch of denial. She got off the car and went to work. There were others working in the factory who had put their savings in the same bank. She found seme of them hud dled in a questioning group. Some had gone hastily over to the b iteelf. She duly asked the forem: for permission to ge, teo. They found the usual big crowd ut the bank doors. Old women, stunnsd into tedrlessness. and some wio wailed fiercely; men who muttered angrily; these who raved, and others who stood' about in dumb hopeless- ness. Anna watched them drearily So much misery in the world, A b.g man, with impatient niovements, ad- dressed the angry depositors, saying they would be paid every cent. Ble ing that a cat at twenty turns witch, and a witch at a hundred turns cat| again. The exit and entrance of al strange cat were ominous. Shylock | speaks of some that go mad if they, behold ene. Tradition says that the great Nmpoleon had a marked fear] of them, and that Henry III, of] France swooned at the sight of one. Four ministers attested the truth| of the tale which Captain Burt] brought from Scotland in 1780, that{ the leg of a cat cut off by a man it attacked turned: imto the leg of an! old an. The serpent-woman' Lilith, who temped Adam, was pic- tured in'the sixteenth century with the body of a cat, .~ In agricultural communities both the moon and cats are consulted about rain and frost, . If the cat scratches its ear, it 48 a true sign of rain; and if it sits with its back to the fire, as a North Caroling moun- taineer says, a cold spap is Inevi- table. © However, the new era of equal suffrage may extricate women from time-defying supersti- tions which have so zealously pre- served her honorable ancient associa- tion with the moon and eats.--M. H. GRASS. More Kultur, Ottawa Journal {feet almost rebelled and refused to and Lena found the others from the factory and they hung about discon: solatély tor an hour or so. Then the old habit of industry asserted itself There was no profit to be gained by loitering. So they went disconsolate- ly back to the noise and whirr of the machines. Ard if Anna's heavy take her there, there was small won- der. She caught a glimpse of her- &8lf in the reflecting glass of a show window as she passed and she quick- iy averted her eyes from the sight. For the third time! Her | newspaper-wrapped lunch in her lap, | an, | want Johann to | years more to make her more homely long |s KAISERIN VISITS WOUNDED GERMANS. Kaiserin of Germany visiting wounded German soldiers in one of the Lazarettos in Berlin. pr | That tall, shambling, homely woman | Would she tell him if all banks in was herself! She drew a long, quivering sigh. Lena shivered at the sound of it, and in her turn tried | 0 console Anna. "Never mind" slip-| {ping a hand in the older girl's, "you | {can save again." | "No," said Anna, with dreary cer- | tainty. "Not any more, I'm tired." | And at the sound of the last two dreary words Lena shivered again and looked fearfully at Anna. i Anna walked on, almost forget! irg Lena, She was seeing tha Jitile. | sterile farm where her mother, old, and bent, sat in the sun; where her father, old but proudly cree:, would | be waiting for a neighbor to bring the mail Across the creek was the sterile farm belonging to Johann's father and mother. Johann, perhaps, | ty this time had consoled himself. | She had not heard from him for a long time. He wrote w.th difficulty and the old folks could not write at but depended upon the school teacher or the priest. And certainly in three years more she would not see her. Three | and tired and shambling? "Anna," cried Lena, Don't cry. | But no tears came from .nna eves and she held back the dry 3 No! { No, she wouldn't try again. Thought of the whirring machines, the ira: cible foreman, the neise, the dust, | nauseated her, "I'm not geing hack to the factory," she abruptly and harshly told Lena "Where are you going?" 'Anna, you can sove again "Back to the bank," Anna (6'd her. "I'm going to wait there till I learn for sure if the money is gone I couldn't work--I'd . choke She put her hand to her throat, turn ed dround and went back. The crowd was unchanged, ex'=p that perhaps the first shock given way to keener realization of ilh« blow. More women were mutterin more men were threatening violence, | and there were more policemén n| evidence. Anna stood there sullenl; her whole attitude a revolt. For first time she regretted giving searrulh ha 4 Aly | corporal writes: for that quixotic foolishness she] might have been at home and happy Now she would neve home or| be happy. She edged away from the sullen crowd. The AST finite ide as to where she would do ibstractediy of the ri- an ugly, murky stream 1 She found a queer comparison. Her sullen ed heard et r what just like relish steps her ne At fir she put it down as ary The patient, slow voice be- longed only to a slow fellow named Johann whom she had defiantly left to take care of his parents, while she hunted happiness in new fields. Man- ifestly, it was impossible that she could hear, a voice which was across the ocean. So, manifestly, she bad not heard it. She only thought she heard it. She she walked on "Anna!" the voice called this time a little upcertainly. though the speaker were not sure She turned That could not be altogether imagination 'Johann!"™ He caught her hands hungriiy. "An na! I wasn't sure. He laughed with ihe loud abandon of joy. "Oh, I've been over here many months So | as I got enough money I would have hunted you." He stammered it out in his own tongue--that his parents were dead, but hers were well; tha he had come after her, but he woule not fling himself, jobless, helpless in his ignorance. of the language, up on her. , But now he bad a job he had saved $7, which, alas! was lost And then she a vag- Operation Decided On As Only Means of Relief 'But the Writer of This Let i Resolved to Try Dr. Chase's - Ointment First and Was Cured. This i= not an isolated case. for we froquently hear from people who have been cured of ples by using Dr. Chase's Ointment after phy had told nothing short of an operation 0 bring relied ahd «© ure, 1f you could read hese t ing as 0, day after day und year wou a wonderful cura- 3% tly. torturing than piles. and Lh ge ™ "Chase's Owmtment thers can be ne the appioation of - De. whan this suffering is. projuptly ro- | doubt as to wherd oredr is due. 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