Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-03-24
EVENING STAR.
Servant Girls VI. Hair Oil.

We clip the following rich yarn from the
local columns of the Buffalo Republic II mar
takes slightly of the Silver Lake sea ssrpent
smell:
At the boarding house where Dave and his
friends " put up" are q number of serva~
girls, and it is an idiosyncracy of servant girls
70 TAKE tneir share OF toilet articles, such as
hair oils, perfumes, &c while they are reiu
venating the apartments of the boaders. Dave
and his friend Robert were very careful OF
taelr respective toilets, and being in a court.
Ing way, had been paying extra attention TO
personal adornment, for q long time. They
were in the habit of getting pint of hair oil
made up at the druggist, at one time; and
hnally they were in the habit of finding that
pint OF their costly hair oil wouldn't last
week, and that all the servant girls In tn,
bouse emitted the same perfume they did 1t
was not long before they came to a conclusion
In the matter. So one evening, finding that
the hair oil cruise was empty, they took the
bottle which had contained it~snd straight.
way went to Mathews drug store There was
a whispered conversation with laughing
clerk, mixing of various articles in pint
bottle, and tho following was marked on the
prescription book as the contents
Of Lac Asafoedita (milk of asafetida,
which, for the information of our rtead-
ers We will state, is highly concen-
trated extract Of that delicious drug)
VI ms ,.'''.'.''........... ounce.
VI Liquor Potasse-a fluid slightly cele
brated for its corrosive power, having
the property Of taking the hair off
dog In ten seconds. s.................t ounce
Balsam of Fir-the stickiest and gum
miest articles known. ........I ounce
money. ...'s,..s. s....................l ounce
Ale .hol, - to. make these ingredients
nuld.. ................... ....& mint
This was well e: shuck . and deposited in
the usual place occupied by the hair oil TIE
ed themselves for church, and after finishing
travelled down stairs. But they came ND ano.
ther stairway In few seconds, and secreted
themselves In q room adjoining theirs, where.
from couple of panes of glass over the door,
they could see everything that went on AT
ter the people of the house had gone, two or
three servant girls came into Davies room.
Whlsht, Molly" says large, red headed
one. "Misthur Dave has some more of the lie,
and me hairs as dhry as powdher; let's have
reglar fix up wild de folks all away" This
was acceded to, and they all went to oiIipg
their locks, being very lavish with the fluid.
which was quite thin in consequence of the
alcohol, In a few moments red head says:
Wirra, that shmells so.'' with her nose
turned skyward.
Sure, its the parfume," interrupted a
down her back
"Parfume, indade," says red head, "that's
not parfume, that's the real bad shmelI"
Msbbe, says dumpy, "it the Patch
chew. lee. I've ha ard that Patch-chew-lee
shmells dreadfl at fust, a pershon must git
used to the shmell before they likes it Shure
it's q psrfume used by the quality. q"
TINS satisfied red head, and after thorough
/" ling" they left the room In abou. two
hours the boardcrs came home from church
" Good gracious, what is it ?" "BIess nv
soul, Mr.. g., l shall faint; oh my dear there
must be an unclean animal in the room ~
and thousand other expressions were heard
as the boarders got sniff at the "Patch.
chew-lee" when they entered the house. The
zled, confounded, indignant, and in vain en-.
deavored to discover the locality of the
+" SMELL" At dinner time there were not
half a dozen boarders at the table, and those
that were there were rapidly thinking of
backing out, as the three girls who were
.iling" were attending on them. Finally
dinner was given up, and with doors and win.
dows opened, the inmates alternately frcze
and suffocated. The day was q dire one to
them, but it wore away some way
At night the three girls attempted 10 comb
their hair. The alcohol had evaporated
leaving the balsam Of fir and honey, and
they might as well have attempted to comb a
bundle of shingles At the very first dash
that red head made her comb caught, and
through the influence Of the potass@ at the
roots, the whole mass Of front hair came off
the side of the red heads Uranium, which she
discovered with yell that would have rend-
cred cannibal envious. The same result at
tended the rest Of her hair, with the excep-
ton of enough to do up as a scalp lock to or
nament with feathers The two other girls
met tho same fate, and at about ten clock
t at night they might have been seen wrap
ping up their los. " Patch chew-leed" I" loc ks in
pieces of paper. The next morning they were
informed by the mistress that she did not de-
sire to employ bald-headed servant girls, and
with their "chist" they departed in almost
scalped condition The discovery of Dave
and Bob's connection with the transaction vas
not known till lately, but their toilet articles
have been as sacred from touch as the tomb
at Palestine
MoRAL-When boarding, see that the SER
want girls are attended to in the way of t'ilet
articles.
NARROW ESCAPE OF WHOLE CLASS OF