Posted on 03/25/2021 6:37:09 AM PDT by C19fan
A quirky letter by British nursing heroine Florence Nightingale about her little-mentioned love of cats has emerged for sale 144 years later.
Nightingale, who became known as 'Lady with the Lamp' following her service as a nurse during the Crimean War, owned 60 felines throughout her life.
At one point, she owned as many as 17 at once.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
No doubt this woman did a bit of publicized good in her life, but cat ladies are overall very weird people. Anyone really surprised that she never married or bore children?
the original Cat Lady
Amazing. Great story although I hate reading stories like this because it reminds me of all the stuff from the 1800s I use to have. My Grandma got divorced in the 1960s and she married this guy whose entire family and ancestors were pack rats, it was something genetic where they would save everything, letters, coins, newspapers from the late 1700s to the late 1800s and when he died he willed me some of that stuff and one year I moved and I don’t know what happened, I lost all of it. I even had election buttons/medalions from the Lincoln/Douglas debate, buttons to vote for Lincoln, just incredible stuff. The best though was this huge collection of amateur poetry written by endless people that someone must have collected through the years, just a huge stack of it. A lot of it written in pencil, and they would write the day and year when they wrote it and I lot of it was REALLY old “1840” “1820” it was incredible and i LOST IT! All those poems forever gone.
The cat’s were controlling her mind.....................It’s what they do.................
That would have been an incredible find, for it all.
How did you lose the poems?
I know a couple cat ladies. One is a relative.
I think it is their maternal instincts gone awry, in the absence of a decent guy. For at least two, they had very bad encounters with a man or men in the past, and caring for the cats calms them and makes them feel loved.
I would suggest dogs could do the same, and actually protect you, but I think the ladies see themselves in the independent cats, as opposed to loyal dogs.
Oh, and one of these cat ladies is a nurse...
When I moved I must have left it behind, it really sucks
“No doubt this woman did a bit of publicized good in her life”
a bit?
How generous of you.
There was a strange old lady who kept forty cats inside her Birmingham, Alabama home many many years ago. One faithful morning she had a real smoky house fire. Thick, black(if I may borrow the term black) deadly smoke was all the way to the floor of her residence when we, the fire department arrived. There wasn’t much fire damage to the residence but the smoke did what smoke does in house fires. Behind every interior door of the home there were four legged smoke victims cluttering the floor and partially blocking the doorways barely visible through the smoke. After searching the home and opening windows to clear all the smoke, I walked outside to find my sometimes insensitive firefighters stacking two or three dozen dead cats just as if stacking firewood. Caught aback I emphatically admonished my eager heroes and propounded that their stacking gesture might be misconstrued by certain audiences therefore a quick thoughtful requite action was demanded immediately. In defense of our department’s proud public image, my brave crew obliged my lamentations, preventing loud official verbal admonishments by our superiors(the Chief)and something burning on the stove back at the firehouse.
Black smoke all the way down to the floor.
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