A pair of chameleons belonging to the honourable Lady Cast,
of Leasowe Castle, Cheshire, have given birth to nine little chameleons, and a paragraph in the Times of Wednesday asks how to feed them, as their parents show no active interest in their fate. It is clear, anyhow, that the infant chameleons must have very patient appetites, if an appeal to public opinion as to how they ought to be fed is not considered too dilatory a method for success. Perhaps, however, their chameleon nature really waits on public opinion, and wishes to be guided by it, if not absolutely fed upon it, from their very birth. If so, they are indeed true archetypes and ideals of the modern newspaper itself, and in. some degree even of the modern Cabinet. Two old chameleons and nine young ones in a single assembly, waiting upon public opinion to know what is recommended as best to support life, are surely a very happy symbol of a modern Cabinet meeting.
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