Show W WHERE ERE CATS ARE POPULAR Shops and Restaurants Need Pussy's Assistance to Keep the R Rats ts and Mice Mico Away Cats as commercial assets are seldom seldom seldom sel sel- dom heard beard of ot said the Sidewalk TourIst Tourist Tour Tour- 1st but tabby Is quite an Important fixture with some shopkeepers and restaurant res res- proprietors Roaming around the dt city Ive I've often otten been Impressed by bythe bythe bythe the frequency with which cats appeared ap ap- In windows and the Ule theother theother other da day I entered a shop and undercover under undercover cover cr of ot buying an apple asked about the three cats I saw perched In the store The salesman told me that cats were vere indispensable In his Ills line because of ot rats and ond mice He pointed out that if It one of the rodents took so much match asa as ns asa a n tiny nip at an apple or pear the tho value of ot the fruit was Impaired for forno forno forno no one would buy an apple that appeared ap ap- pea red to have hate been nibbled lie He declared declared de do- dared that rats or mice would not eat cat fruit If It they could get something else but when their hunger unger became gre get t enough they would attack his stock In trade er E Everyone one has noticed the cats that wander with faint meows about restaurants restaurants restaurants res res- and sit alt patiently at ones one's feet feet- waiting for tor a u These animals arent aren't there simply to give a u homey touch i they are working and waiting for tor the rats that come for blocks to get et at the food Many restaurants have ha a galvanized iron sheet tacked In at nt the junction of their kitchens kitchen's floor and walls to prevent the animals from Cram gnawing a way Into that d depart depart- ment mente After the dining places close at night and the chairs are stacked stocked on the tables the mice or rats come out outto outto outto to forage It Is then that the watch cats' cats are alert hunters Many hotels especially of small street side street type maintain a staff of ot cats to patrol the corridors Women guests ests and the feminine fear of mice keep these retainers on the pay roll roU The cat battalions start out after midnight midnight mid mid- night and man many times that doleful wall wail that strikes your ears Is not from the rear yard as you sleepily fancy taney but from the hall outside outside where one cat mournfully tells another how poor the hunting bunting Is that night While of course it is easy enough to keep cats In apartments the task of training them to consider a n shop or restaurant as liS a permanent home is more difficult New York Times Esprit de Corps Works Wonders Esprit de corps corps makes evel every Fr French soldier feel proud to belong to his unit for lie he proclaims that his unit I is the tho best hest of all ali In the French armies and that all aU men of ot this unit are a n fine tine lot That esprit de corps will make them perform wonderful achievements In order order or or- der Jer to outdo neighboring units But the exaltation of the morale Is really the tho work of ot the officers they are in close touch with the men and have their confidence They will point out outto outto outto to them the re reasons sons why th they y fight i they will tell them why they must be confident of ot success i they will give them some Indications as to how the next nest battle bottle will win be fought and the rea rea- rea- rea reasons I tons sons why a success Is expected name ly h the great superiority In guns In ammunition ammunition am nm- In Infantry and In morale that hat we shall have In this particular sector fector Then ihen us' us as the training goes oh on on the men will feel fecI and ana realize their superiority BU BU- over O the enemy Another sentiment which must be Inculcated In Inculcated In In- into every ery fighter is a n strong hate hato for tor the Boche n a strong desire to meet him to fight him and to beat bent him |