The Detroit times., 1910-02-23
MRS. BEAR Gets
NEW SPRING FuRs
Hubby Circumvents High Cost OF
Living b. Tip From Mrs. Red
Fox's Affinity.

! NEW YORK, Feb. - - don't see
/ why ! cant nave new spring furs like
/ all the rest OF the animals" said Mrs
American Black Bear. as she came out
/ ~ her stone den at the New York zoo
logical park few days ago Now
Z look over there at those gray timber
wolHts. They all have fine new things
! every winter. ana | never have
You are always talking aboui what
YOU want. and YOU never give me any
peace OF mind AT all. broke In Nh
Black Bear. How am | going 10 buy
YOU new furs every time that YOU take
tac ireaky You know what my income
Is am tired OF this constant demand
! for clothes. When YOU women folks
get the vote. as | hope YOU Will. you'll
ma OFT some things that will surprise
YOU Along with suffrage goes the
tak"-carc of-yourself rule. didn't get
yen any tufs because OF the high cost
of living"
oh, bother the high cost OF living
We have ia live just the same. don't
We Before | married YOU. YOU were
always telling me of all the things |
should have Now want To lock like
other women and not like a fright
want"
Nhen YOU get the vote YOU women
folks. the wages OF women viii 20 mp
and the wages OF men will go down
i and Il man and his wife Will both have
10 wOtH and their united wages viii
have exactly the ulchasing power
man has now. The home will be de
s'royed, on paid servant Will have
TO run n, and --
but just see Mrs Red Fox over
I there. | can't see how she gets new
spring fnrs. light and not hot like
these have been wearing all winter
! My furs are getting rageedy. torn. and
! they hang IN shrcds / won't stand it,"
/ MIS- American Black Bear bounced
into the den again and left the l--~
ipy husband thinking over his Difficult
p ties He looked over at Mrs Red Fox
and saw Tor certainty that she ap
peared 10 have new furs. They were
not so heavy. We're lighter in color and
( ever 50 much prettier than the tang
led. thick. heavy hair she had been
wearing all winter Then he noticed
that Ms Red Fox seemed To have an
affinity Between the bars OF her cage
she WAS rubbing noses with dark
haired coyote in the next cage who
reached through the bars and scraped
Mrs. Rcd FoN's neck with his paw
Ever stroke com5ed out Il handful OF
old hair and left her neck clothed in
beautiful aeW fur
Hun said Father Black Bear Il
can do that and she don't need any
affinity. either And he lay down i'm
he sun and Went to sleep. or appeared
10 sleep until The disgruntlcd Mrs.
Bear came out snufed CONTEMPORARY
AZ him and curled mp in the corner and
went to sleep. TOO
Then Father Scar crept silently over
10 his wife and softly and gently began
/ licking her shoulder with his rough
tOuSue. and with every stroke away
came a mass OF the homely. heavy.
ragged winter fur and under 1t gleam-
cd out the soft brown. shOr, spring fur
thar Mrg Bear had longed for Then
he npscd her over and got at the other
side aad when tie rough coat was all
of I'll" woke mp Father Bear was
making believe 10 sleep again when
she got NJ. discovered her new furs
and hogan slruttiag up and down the
yerd
ron lazy pig she cried when he
got up. ST" What some one brought
me- while YOU slept Oh. | guess Mrs
Red Fox isn't the only one" And she
tried To look mysterious Father Bear
after the manner OF his patient and
loving kind said nothing and il ii 90
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