A "good" Family, It Seems, Is One

As Anyone Who Has Ever Been Around A Cat For Any Length Of Time Well Knows, Cats Have Enormous Patience With The Limitations Of The Human Kind.

As Anyone Who Has Ever Been Around A Cat For Any Length Of Time Well Knows, Cats Have Enormous Patience With The Limitations Of The Human Mind. They Realize That, Whether They Like It Or Not, They Are Simply Going To Have To Put Up With What To Them Are Excruciatingly Slow Mental Processes, That We Humans Have Embarrassingly Low I.q.'s, And That Probably Because Of These Defects, We Have An Infuriating Inability To Understand, Let Alone Follow, Even The Simplist And Most Explicit Of Directions.

Giving The Cat A Name, Like Marriage, Is Not An Easy Thing. Soon I Experienced The Selection Of Name For A Baby, A Dog, A Book, A Warship, A Sports Team, Even The King, The Pope Or A Hurricane Is Just Child's Play Compared To The Selection Of The Cat's Name.

People Ask Me What Makes A Good Funeral, And I Tell Them The Most Important Thing Is Your Man In The Casket. If You Have A Man Of Substance In There, You Have The Makings Of A First-class Funeral.

It Used To Be Said That, Socially Speaking, Philadelphia Asked Who A Person Is, New York How Much Is He Worth, And Boston What Does He Know. Nationally It Has Now Become Generally Recognized That Boston Society Has Long Cared Even More Than Philadelphia About The First Point And Has Refined The Asking Of Who A Person Is To The Point Of Demanding To Know Who He Was. Philadelphia Asks About A Man's Parents; Boston Wants To Know About His Grandparents.