Foreign News: Cat's Meat

"Beep! Beep!" is to U. S. citizens the nearest phonetic approach to the sound of a certain type of motor horn. To Londoners, ''Beep! Beep!'' is the familiar cry of the cat's meat men, picturesque peddlers who sell to thrifty housewives not the meat of cats but little skewers stuck with carefully diced meat for cats. Last week Britons were startled to learn that at least one cat's meat man is not only picturesque but opulent.

In a London magistrate's court a Mrs. Albert Cratchitt, estranged from her husband, was being sued for...

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