Show A OATS CAPRICES I Cats are the most obstinately capricious in their fancies about their beds of any I domestic creature They will follow a particular rug or shawl from room to I room if it be removed in order to sleep on it or insist on the use of one chpir until they get their way and then for some reason take a fancy to another The cleanliest of all animals anything newly washed or very fresh and bright strikes them as just the thing for a bed A nicelyaired newspaper lying on the fleer or in a chair or linen fresh from the wash Is almost irresistible Outdoor eats cek a warm as well as a tidy bed The writer was once much surprised when passing through a large shipbuilding yard to see a cat fast asleep lying it seemed on a muddy path But the spot I which the cat had selected for Il couch vas one at which a hot steam pipe passed under the road and the mud was there baked into a warm dry cake which made not only a clean but an artificlallyheated sleeping place But the oddest taste in beds developed by cats was that entertained by a very i highlybred grayAngora which was justly 1 just-ly pettedand admired by the family in which it lived For some months it would only sleep in or upon a hat if such could be found ladies hats being preferred If ft could discover one with the inside uppermost up-permost it would lie inside it If not such was its love for this form of couch it would curl dtsertf around the brim and with its long furry tall and pliant body made a fine winter trimming to a summer hat Bv some accident a drawer in which all the summer hats bad been disposed for the winter was left open for some days after which it was discovered that all the hats had been tried In turn the cat having hav-ing finally selected one adorned with white Qaburnum flowers which never recovered re-covered from the Ironing to which It fead been subjected The Spectator g oj r |