Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17

end of my nose in seething torrent. 1t
ran off Mrs Canoes nose, too. She
asked abruptly, It's awfully hot in Texas,
isn't itl'
80, no. said I, 1 never experienced heat
anywhere
"'Here, you've had enough, well go now,
she said, presently.
eff you want to go, we'll GO l replied,
but wouldn't hurry. Its expensive, you
know, take good deal OF time and fussing,
and we ought to put ii through IN good
shape
She turned her super-heated coun-
tenance upon my boiled lobster visage one
moment, then rang the bell and our at
PENDANTS conducted US TO our separate rub
bing rooms. AS we traiied out one door q
new party filed in at another. 1t was headed
by very feshy foreign lady. She was
clad IN the conventional sheet. which more
expressed than hid her Fals:affian proper
tions; and when the blghting breath of
that room smote upon her she exclaimed
wildly, All. my God. I cannot bear it, me =
and. clutching at the empty air fell back
heavily upon the attendants, who went
down onto the bare floor. And we went
snickering out. leaving them picking them
selves up and prying up the gasping, teshy
foreign lady.
I'VE We're rubbed, and thumped, and
secured, and sprayed OFF with hose, then
showered. l heard one little ow-ooh from
Mrs. Cameo'a room when the cooler water
OF the spray struck her, and sharp
kee-eee as she passed under the shower,
and felt what Joy it is TO see the engineer
thus hoist by his own petard.
Then when all these processes, so in
imical to personal dignity and SO beneficial
To the cuticle, were completed, we were
in tod eho Nd
back to our little dressing rooms, to be pat
ted and soothed, laved in delicate scents
and soft unguents, then tucked up and left
TO drowsy bliss. | was just cutting loose
from these shores to drift out upon the
quiet unknown, when an attendant pulled
aside the curtain across from mine, and
touched the occupant gently. A white arm
went drowsily up, pair of big black eyes
looked out reproachfully, 90 no, Mary, not
yet she said.
Il walked up presently in a state of per-
feet beatitude. What made me so light
and free, wondered. l felt, without mean
ing to be sacrilegious, as though l had shed
all my sins and slipped my dead weights of
doubt, uncertainty and bitter experience.
I forgave my friends and loved my enemies.
l rose up and clothed myself, still in this
lofty frame of mind, gave my soft handed
attendant all the small change | had, with u
gentlemanly air which is my latest acquire
ment, wondering inwardly that a beneficent
ministering spirit should accept earthly
dross; the street door opened and closed
upon us-and l was with the world that
mockS again.
"H-m-mm," said jim THAT sounds
mighty pretty-you always was good
deal on the pretty. Goes sort OF like 4 book
a girl sent me from St. Louis. astral bodies,
soul communion and such stuff.
Now mine amt like that. No, by
George! It's more like an off and on scrap
ping match, or COW town after the round
ups. I'd been told lot about the thing,
and thought I'd go and try one; and I made
up my mind if there was any gouging, or
hammering, or rough handling done, I'd
be there.
They took me into that antc-room of
perdition, and told me to sit down on one of
those wooden chairs. You don't say how
you found it, but great Scott, mine was red
hot! l jumped up and yelled, and the fel
low grinned like prairie dog. That made
me mad, and told him l didn't come there
for any monkey He looked scared
and went and got a big woolly sheet and
put it over the chair. l sat there and
thought what cool business herding sheep
in South Arizona in July used TO be. When
l couldn' stand it any longer, | ordered the
fellow to take me out, so we went into a
big room with a lot Of arroyos chuck full
of water, running across it, and fellows
splashing around in 'em for all the world
like sheep dipping. ! thought they would
be cool. so in Jumped. first one we came
to. II was boiling-boiling III climbed out,
mad Us IRE. ! had Il nlhu % pitch the fCl-
low in, but he wasn't more than half as big
as me, and thought 'twouldn'J be square
"Do you want to kill meg | said. Pm
parboiled now. Where's something cool?'
He said to go on down them arroyos, or
and the last one was perfectly cold. l
started down for the last one, the fellow
trotting along after me, saying I'd better
come to it gradual, and just then I heard
man roar out laughing like I haven't
heard since l left Texas.
What's thatl' says l.
".He'S taking a cold spray, or shower, or
needle BATH says the fellow.
"sWell, | want one right now says l.
'iThe fellow tried to get me to take cool
plunge; but I'd made up my mind; so he
says, which will you have, shower, spray
or needle?'
"'What's he taking9 Needle and just
then the chap come out, fairly whooping,
looking ticlkled as fellow that's just broke
the bank
$50 went in and told my man to turn
her loose.
"I'n make it warm at first, and cool
down gradual says he.
"'You won't do nothing of the kind
says ]. I'm blessed if I haven't had
enough he--eat. You just turn her loose,as
cold as she gets. l reckon l havn't rode
the range in sleety northers since I was
kid to be scared by a shower BATH There
wasn't anything to see. 1 didn't even
know where she was. That fellow just
touched some sort of hair trigger, some
where, and ten million sparks of fire and
ice hit me all at once. l doubled up and
jumped wild. l was locoed. l hit some
thing with the top of my head, and when
the thing stopped, there stood the fellow
splitting out teeth, and swearing he'd make
me pay for 'em. l told him was more
than willing to; I'd get him two or three
changes of teeth, first-class ones, if lived
to get out / was thankful hit him, for if
/ hadn't he would have grinned, then I'd
have broke his neck, sure, and had to leave
the country in nothing but that sheet
''Well, he went away, and another fellow
came and laid me ON shelf and COM
menced to curry me- He was very civil