From Lasell Junior College's 1926 yearbook.

From Lasell's 1923 yearbook.

From Lasell's 1924 yearbook.

From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.

"I'm going to write a love letter for you, Popsy-wop!"  From The Judge, 1920.

Reblog if you agree: "I will always love them more than words can say, including my future cat children."  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910 (though the sentiment is our own).

Here's a precursor to How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Die Muskete, 1934.

"Mewing in a frightful manner."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.  This should also be of interest: How to Be Your Own Cat.

"Do you mean to tell me you are sparing the world and all mankind … for the sake of a cat?"  From Pearson's, 1907.  Now, you can dispense with the world for the sake of being your own cat: How to Be Your Own Cat.

From Friends and Foes from Fairy Land by Lord Brabourne and illustrated by Linley Sambourne, 1886.  This should also be of interest: How to Be Your Own Cat.

"Presence of Mind": an illustration from a 1900 issue of Punch magazine.  The caption reads, "Little girl (who has been disturbed by a mouse, in a stage-whisper to her sleeping sister).  'Wake up!  Oh, wake up and mew, Amy, mew for your life!!'"  For some extraordinary tips on mewing, see How to Be Your Own Cat.

We're delighted to see our How to Be Your Own Cat rising to the top at Quimby's Bookstore.  (Photo via the Quimby's instagram.)  Looks like we're in fine company alongside the Twin Peaks recipe book (Damn Fine Cherry Pie), as well as guitarist Johnny Marr and some Ancient Aliens.

We have discovered a non-surgical, instant way to be your own cat.  We call it, How to Be Your Own Cat.  There are 25 chapters with the steps involved, but results begin immediately.  Literary humorist Jonathan Caws-Elwitt blurbs, "It’s commonly known that you can be your own best friend or your own worst enemy.  It’s even well established that you can be your own grandpa.  But it takes a Professor Oddfellow to teach you How to Be Your Own Cat—and isn’t it about time?"

Martha Brockenbrough, author of The Game of Love and Death, notes: "I am also curious about how to be Schrödinger's cat."  There actually is much to say about being Schrödinger's cat!  We would begin by installing slatted blinds in the windows, because when light goes through a slit it's both a particle and a wave (plus, that's how the Cheshire cat got separated from its grin).  We'd get an "I am not a doormat" doormat so as to foster uncertainty.  We would collect nesting boxes.  We would always leave some mail in the mailbox  and a newspaper in the driveway so as to suggest the possibility of not being home.  We would play music by the dance band M-Theory and spin to it.  We would study ways to entangle strings (putting the macramé into M-theory).  We would adopt the pat answer of agnosticism, "I don't know."  We would collect (infinite) monkey memorabilia.  Then we'd sleep like the dead.

Of course, before you can become Schrödinger's cat in particular, you must transform into a cat in general.  Hence, How to Be Your Own Cat.

From Incidents and Adventures in Rebeldom by George W. Darby, 1899.