Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-27
A CATS FACE CHANGED.
SURGERY CALLED INTO PLAY TO
MAKE ALTERATIONS.
How Large Yellow smudge spoiled
the Beauty of AN Otherwtss
strikingly Attractive
Angora.

Timson. large tortoise Angora cat.
owned by Mrs. Samuel Rawiey,
wealthy woman living In farm about
six miles from Canaan, Conn, had an
operation performed on his face last
week the like OF which probably no cat
ever before was subjected to.
Timson was feline De Bergerac.
All his native charm and beauty, his
chivary. and the courtly manners In
herlted from proud, unbroken line
of ancestors were spoiled by big vel
low smudge on his nose. For Timson
to assume Beau Brummel airs with
that plebeian yellow nose was as alb
surdly impossible as Chuck Connors In
an opera hat.
Mrs. Rawley made up her mind that
Timson should be restored" To have
all the lavish expressions of admira-
ton which her guests bestowed upon
Timson repudiated the moment his
head was raised and his nose came
into view was too humiliating to be
borne any longer. Better that Timson
were dead. And both Mrs. Rawley
and TimsOn agreed that nothing could
be more distasteful than that
If science, through the agency of
dermatology, could remove the blem-
| ish. il should be removed. Cores
| pondence was opened with a promi-
nent surgeon, and after the nature Of
| the blemsh had been minutely de-
| scribed 10 him he consented TO remove
it, and suggested that Timson be for
warded TO his clinic in New York. That
was an unforeseen obstacle. Mrs.
Rawley is no longer a young woman,
and her health would not bear the
worry and anxiety necessary TO chap
| eroning Iimson TO the metropolis; as
for intrusting him TO stranger; that
was out of the question. But II the
eat could not go to the mountain, there
was no reason why the mountain
should not come to the eat, and an
other. letter inquiring terms for out.
of-town operations, was sent to the
! specialist,
He replied that for SIS and his ex.
penses lac would come to Canaan and
remove the offending growth, and Tim
son would not have to leave his OWL
firesde. He came last Tuesday; q
carriage from Mrs. Rawley's place
was AT the station TO meet him, and ht
was taken to Timson's basket.
After the examination of the strick
en- nose the doctor announced tina
electricity was the only means which
could bp employed to remove the tor
toise-hurd hair. and that after II haC
been taken out the nose would have I,
be blistorpd slightly, to insure that tn,
hair would grow In white.
The electric needles he admitte,
would be more or less painful, an,
after watching his patient sink hi
long claws into his blanket and thel
draw them out as though to keep him
self in training, he decided TO admin
lister an anaesthetic.
After Timson had succumbed to IL
influence the needles were applied an,
one by one the distiguring hairs wer
removed. AS the patch covered NOR
than two inches on each side of tn
lose the operation was necessarily
long and tedious one, and IL was NOR
than an hour before it was completes
and Timson was brought to.
A light blister was applied then an
the patient put to bed. The exper
mrlt was a great success. No compli
cations set in. and beyond an annoy
ing irritation caused by the blister
Timson suffered no inconvenience. III
was around again in two or three days
and already a soft white down ha
taken the place of the ugly blotch. Tn
operation, including the fee and tn
doctors expenses, amounted to 500
New York Press.