A RAT-CATCHING SCHOOL.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1212, 17 December 1919, Page 3

A RAT-CATCHING SCHOOL.

Much barking and some howling 1 ■•'- trays the Parisian ratodrome, says the 'Paris Daily Mail.' For terriers take their turn in the high circular cage in which they learn to catch ami kill the fearsome sewer rat. Any afternoon you may see them at their work, if you have ' tho nerve to look on, for the dog by no means has ir. all his own way with his lirst ruts. One of tha dog trainer's best clients is a woman who has many valuable and handsome French bull-dogs, and every season sorno of her animals are brought to the cage to learn the Work of rat-catching. It. is, by the way, ; quite a costly school for tho dog-owner. The show pupil, a tiny fox terrier, is said to kill the creatures as fast as they can be put into tho cage. Thirty per minute is the record established by a bulldog with an imposing pedigree and lower Hp ' ■ ___: 5000 HUSBAND HUKTJfc*. ' Five thousand British/girls, 'fair and not without monetary attraction,' me prepsuing to come to the United States husband-huntm*, according to Mrs S. C. Heymour, secretary of the Guaranty Trust Company, Philadelphia, who has just returned from Britain, where she has been engaged in sending Brit'sh wives who married American loldiers out to join their husbands. 'Th,e girls are entirely unattached,' said Mrs Seymour. 'The only Americans with whom they can have had any acquaintance arc the. soldiers who have passed through England. 'They have money and everything else ready, as soon as the passport restrictions are lifted, to sail hither,

'Tht: reason they have determined to come over here to find husbands is th« scarcity of men in England, which has made matrimonial prospects very dark for thorn. . ■::. 'Their eyes arc turned towards Ame» ricu, where they 'believe they will find men who have "money-trees growing in the buck yards,,' .'*•