CATS TAKE TO TREES

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 14, 1 October 1929, Page 7

CATS TAKE TO TREES

An unexpected victim of the rise in the cost of living m Paris—23 per cent, si non, January 11,I 1 , J|92B! has come to light, writes the correspondent of the Morning Post. With (he bounding up of the price of beefsteak (dO francs, or nearly 5s the lb at Neu illy market), so have the numbers gone jdlow'u in certain quarteirsi Paris of ‘*the iiannless, necessary cat.’’ In tbc populous districts of Menumontant, La Villefte, and La CJiapelle, is many a small restaurant with a lixed price of a meat meal. Meat grows clearer; hut the meal must not be dear, otherwise the habitual client will desert one restaurant for another. Meat, fhen, that does not cost si. much, must he provided. Audi so a new necessity is found for the domestic cat. This, however, does not mean that all the missing oats have fallen victims to the knotted stick of the restaurant keeper. Many have d(nnbfloss But others, from the instinct of selfpreservation, have developed fresh talents. The gutter cat has become, a cat of the gutters, indeed. He does riot descend from the roof, save to leap af one bound on to a morsel of food, abstract, it, and Icon again with it into the branches of the plane tree in the avenue. Thanks to the rise of all killable, buyable, eatable things, friend tabby bids fair to revert to the tvpe from which douhfless the domestic hearthevolved him—that of a tree animal.