A Daily Menu for Cats-animal Hospitals-cats as "Paying Patients"-the Training of a Cat cats are properly treated and cared for from their early kitten-hood they become as human in their companionship and as keenly intelligent in their ways as the most intelligent dog. But, from hereditary reasons - they being of the tiger tribe - it takes a trifle longer, and requires a little more patience to humanise them.

A well-known authority on this subject - the matron of the Cats' Hospital - declares that for healthy, happy cats the same three essentials are required that are given to the healthy human baby - namely, warmth, fresh air, and cleanliness. The two former demand no elaboration, but in connection with cleanliness it is essential that cats should be carefully brushed every day. This is particularly necessary when they are changing their coats, as they are otherwise liable, by getting the loose hairs into their mouths, to contract a painful cats' disease known as "hair-balls."

The best cure for this is to give the cat a teaspoonful of olive-oil - indeed, olive-oil acts as an excellent general preservative, and if the animal will take it, its mistress ought to give it a teaspoonful or half a teaspoonful every day. Pussy should always [have access to fresh water. Milk is by no means sufficient for her to drink, and the fact that the cat cannot obtain clear drinking water often leads to illness.

But it is in the matter of pussy's diet that her masters and mistresses make perhaps the gravest mistakes. The following is, therefore, commended as an "ideal"diet both for the animal's health and for the appearance of its coat. Of course, it is understood that a cat's personal taste is to be consulted just like a child's, and food that it does not like should not be forced upon it.