The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21
CANINE TOILETS.
Partisan Pet Dogs Well Cared For by N
Who Make That a Profession.

Partisan Pet Dogs Well Cared For by Men
Who Make That Profession.
When the weather is hot and the
skies are cloudless the Seine becomes,
for some distance up its course, regu-
lar playground for the working classes
of Paris. Not only are the floating
lighthouses wherein customer is ac-
commodated with a private dressing
room and a towel for the small sum of
seven cents, or at the ''sweller'' estab-
lishmcnts for ten cents) crowded in
every part, but bare-legged children go
padding about in the shadows, and
carriers bring their horses to indulge
them with the luxury of bath, and,
above all, the dog-washers are out in
full force, for the washing and clipping
of pet dogs has become regular feature
of Partisan industry, especially since
the large-sized poodle, the regular
French ''caniche," has become so FASH
ionable
The great draw back to this handsome
and intelligent race is the difficulty ex-
perienced in keeping them in good or
der. Unless a poodle, either white or
black, is regularly washed and combed,
his tleecy coat soon becomes matted aud
dirty and all the picturesqueness of his
aspect is lost. In the grand establish
ment of a wealthy Partisan there is
naturally no difficulty about detailing
a servant to look after the toilet of the
favorite; but dog owners of less pre-
tensions are very glad to have recourse
to the itinerant dOg-dressers that ply
their trade in warm weather on the
shores of the Seine.
The dOg-clipper usually occupies a
small boat, from which he proceeds to
operations. He handles his canine
client with great gentleness as well as
dexterity, and gets through the wash
ing process with surprising rapidity.
Then comes the clipping, which varies
according to the taste or the liberality
of the dogs master. The poodle may
simply be clipped lion fashion; that is,
with all the hair removed from his hind
quarters with the exception of tuft at
the end of his tail. Or he may have
bracelets of hair left to encircle each
hind leg and an oval tuft called a
''macaroon," artistically shaped on
each hip, or he may have braces defined
over his shoulders, or in very hot
weather he may have all his hair re-
moved with the exception of very
fierce-loo1ing pair of mustaches and
the inevitable tuft at the end of the tail
An elaborate get-up of this nature
costs the dogs proprietor as high as
g. 40. and for the simplest form of
washing and clipping a poodle is
charged 81. Other dogs, such as SPAN
iels, Yorkshire terriers, dachshunds,
etc, are simply bathed and combed, and
the price of the process varies from 90
cents to 81, according to the size of the
animal. Usually the dog yields him
self to the operation with the best pos
sible grace; but all the same the washer
invariably begins by strapping up the
animals mouth and by tying his legs.
1t has often formed a source of con-
lecture on my part as to what became
of the masses of curly hair that is
clipped daily from the multitude of
poodles that are brought to the shores
of the river to be washed and shorn.
For in thrifty Paris nothing is lost, and
nothing that can be utilized is thrown
away. Recently learned the destina-
ton of all that hair. 1t is collected and
packed to send to the north of France,
where it is employed in the manufact-
ure of certain kind of coarse CLOTH
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