El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-07

new wet looked astonishingly different
For now her beautiful. long, fluffy fur
was only little dark WiSpS against a
Pine norH e TISn SaIxerec
Scrubbing.
Now. you'd better change this water.
Maggie; it's pretty dirty"
While Maggie filled the pan with
fresh warm water and made it sudsy
with shampoo, Helen kept Pussy PurT-
news wet, trem bling, little body COW
cred with a bath towel so she would
not take cold.
Helen had been amazed when she was
first told to blue" Pussy PurrmeW.
Then she learned that almost all women
with gray or white hair put bluing in
the rinsing water to keep 1t from look
ing yellow. After all It seemed very
logical We blue white clothes-Why
When Pussy Purrmew vas duly
rinsed and blued Helen wiped her
thoroughly with a soft bath towel and
wrapped her in another.
Now, Maggie, take out all these wet
toNelS ana clean up. wed better leave
around and take cold"
Helen spread the thick bath mat on
new in still another towel and laid her
on ia comic, helpless bundle, show
ing only tiny wet head She made no
enort TO struggle from out the towels;
wet and frightened she was grateful
for their Sheltering warmth
They shut the bathroom door and left
her there. But every few moments
Helen would look in to see that she
was not unwrapped-
Helen had interviewed about washing
her. had said that just before she was
6 81 GTy a cup OF ~, rulers earth should
And now Helen unWrapped Pussy
PurrmeW. placed her on a newspaper
spread out on the bathroom floor, and
rubbed the brown sandy dust all over
a wet kitten looks pathetic enough.
LIZ NlaA FIJI. -
eSrth IS a picture Of abject misery.
For once Maggie's poor animal was
an appropriate phrase.
1t was over two hours before she was
thoroughly dry, and then came the
process OF brushing out the earth. But
ms FuSSy PurrmeW loved She lay
stretched out on the paper purrine,
loudly, while Helen brushed her until
her fqr was soft and silky and at least
Then Helen was called away to the
lelepnohe, ana right after that the man
IN me 7~ffnooWs- So the newspapers
She nao lett on Warren'S bathroom floor
We're entirely forgotten
What are those papers in nv hath
room IOrZ he demanded as soon as he
came nome that evening
On. dld forget to take those out2'
And Helen hurried in 10 gather them
up we washed Pussy PurrmeW to-
DAY and put the papers down to brush |
Ugh" grunted Warren. Cant You
ma any better way to spend your time
But dear, every one said if Pm IN
EXHIBIT her thss year she ought to he /
Wa1s i,so " AIT till you see how beauti- |
1T was not until after they were |
seated at dinner that Pussy PiIrrmevT
place on the window sill nc
Look, dear Isn't she lovely? Yo11
see how much lighter she is N
on-In. she does look lighter ad- /
mitted Warren. How'd YOU ZVaSi b4S7 |
DIDN'T enjoy It much, did she?''
No; but she was very eOod-bet+o,-
than I thought she'd be. And NE -- Df5te5
her all over with fuller's earth rTbatsa |
what makes her fur so silky. And Oh
what do you Think laughinglv. eve /
bIued her!
Warren grunted unbeHevingly.
her fur from looking yelloWisb1'' Keep |
who put that idea in your head7,
why, every one. who has gray or /
WHITE halr puts oiulng IN the rinsing /
''Nonsenser
color That's what Tll have to do so CI5s |
day And Helen sighed, as She M
vaTiably did when she thought of |
well you'u do nothing of the kind
their hair-thats their business. Rggt
you'll leave yours as nature intended
why. dear. it isn't bleaching or dive
ing. it---just to put little bauing IN the |
ssWel it affects the color You lust
said that's why IneY used 1t
YES. L know; but that isn't"
There, you admit it again. Nv
mother has gray hair and she doesn't
try to change its color, and you'll NOT
eitheri It's bad enough to have your
face Mastered up with powder without
having your hair artificial too"
why, Warren, you know use very
aOh. YOU DIDO you2 Then WHY
does it come off on my coat every time
you get near me- But I'll not stand
for any touched-up gray hair-under-
stand thaty'
ooh. dear. how foolish: Think what
an absurd thing were quarreling about!
I haven't even one gray hair vet. and I
won't have" laughingly. unless you
keep on arguing about such ridiculous
things.
arguing? You're doing the arguing.