Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1906 — Even Persian Cats Purr. [ARTICLE]

Even Persian Cats Purr.

Phoebe was the 4-year-old daughter of a missionary to Persia, torn in that land of Oriental ease and hospitality; and her little mind was imbued with such Ideas of mutual compliment and her little tongue so given to graces of speech that her New England grandmother had many a shock. The morning after the little girl ar rived at the grandmother’s home the old lady was brushing out Phoebe’s curls, gloating over her after the sash ion of. grandmothers. “My little phoebe-bird 1’ she said over and over again. “Why do you call me phoebe-blrd?" asked the child at last. “Here in America we have a bird that says ‘Phoebe! phoebe!’ ” explained her grandmother. The child smiled, and her mother, standing by, knew what was passing in Phoebe’s mind. Not so the grandmother, who finished her task reluctantly at last, and then stooped down for a kiss. - “In Persia,” said Phoebe, In her most caressing tone, “we have one old cat, who say ‘Dranrna I dranma!’ ”