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Cats: the site directory
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In this enlarged section of a
family photo the founder
and director of this museum
holds one of our many cats when we
lived
on an island in the Mississippi
River, the Rock Island Arsenal. My
father,
an Army engineer colonel, was
responsible for flood control on a
section
of the river. I was eight. We look
happy with one another.
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Complete
list, with hierarchy
(again, these are the original
ones)
Prof.
Mack C. Padd, MaxiMUM, The
Distinguished
Service Institutional Wallace C.
Meyer
Memorial Pouncer at the Museum
of Menstruation, Senior
Cat and Chief
Tomcat
Alley
Cat Allies
(an organization urging the public
to catch, inoculate, neuter and
release
feral cats; read why)
Basic
Rules for Cats Who Have a
House to
Run
If the musical "Cats"
were done by cats
And if you love cats, read The Cat -
Le
Chat - by Colette
In one of the French writer's
greatest stories, Alain loves his
cat,
Saha, more than the young woman he
just married. Camille has only one
thing
she can do - and so does Alain,
and you understand both of them.
It's 150 pages of light, sensual
prose from 1933. I read it because
of a mention in a review of a new
biography of the writer, one of
France's
best. You might have to get it on
interlibrary loan, as I did.
After five pages I thought, Oh,
no - only 145 pages left!
When I was a boy I thought cats
were female and dogs male. Cats
still
strike me as thoroughly female.
Mini, my Maine coon cat (missing
now many
years and probably dead) was as
arrogant a male as I have ever
met, but
had the finest and longest fur of
my cats, beautiful eyes and was as
slinky
and watchful as any of them. To
me, very feminine.
Alain lost a wife but not
feminine companionship.
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See San-Nap-Pak sanitary napkin
ads from
1932 and
1945
and Ads for
teenagers. See the roughly
contemporary Dale
tampon, and very early Tampax
and fax.
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