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SERVANT GIRLS VS.. HAIR OIL.

partakcs slightly Of tho Silver Lake sea
serpent smell:
At the boarding house where Dave and
his friend "put up" arc number of ser.
want girls, and it is an idiosyncracy of SER
want girls to take their share of toilet arti.
ces, such as hair oils, perfumes, &C., while
they are rcjuvenating the apartments of the
boardcrs. Dave and his friend Robert were
very careful of their respective toilets, and
being i'll counting way, had been paying
extra attention to personal adornment, for
long time. They are in the habit of get
ting pint of hair oil made up at the drug.
gist, at one time; and finally 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 the house emit
ted the same perfume they did. II was
not long before they came to conclusion
i'll the matter. So one evening finding that
tho hair oil cruise was empty, they took
the bottle which had contained it, and
straight way went to Matthews drug store.
There was whispered conversation with a
laughing clerk, mixing Of various articles
i'll pint bottle, and the following was
marked on the prescription book as the
contents:
OF Lac Asaftedita (milk Of asaftrdita,
which for the information of our readers,
we will state, is a highly concentrated ex-
tract of that delicious drug of this, ounce.
OF Liquor Potasse-a fluid slightly cele.
brated for its corrosive power, having the
property of taking the hair off dog III ten
seconds, half ounce Balsam of Fir-the
sticlliest and gummiest article known, 1
ounce. Honey, 1 ounce. Alcohol, to
make these ingredients fluid, half pint.
This was well "shuck" and deposited in
the usual place occupied by the hair OIL
The next morning, (sunday,) Dave and
Bob dressed themselves for church. and ai
ter finishing, travelled down stairs. But
they came up another stairway in few
seconds, and secrcted themselves in a room
adjoining theirs, where, from couple Of
panes of glass over the door, they could
see everything that went on. After the
people Of the house lad gone, two or three
servant girls came into Davies room.
Wllisht, Molly" says large red head
ed one, "Misthur Dave has some more Of
the lie, and me hairs as dry as powdher
let's have reglar fix up wild de folks all
away" This was acceded to, and they
all went to oiling their locks, being
very lavish with tho fluid, which was quite
thin in consequence of the alcohol. In a
few moments red head says:
Nirra, that shmells so ~ with her nose
turned skyward.
"Surc, its the 7mrfumc," interrupted a
short and dumpy specimen, with her hair
down her back.
"Parfame, indade," says red-head, "that's
not parfume, that's the real bad smel."
"Mebbe," says dumpy, sits tho Patch
chew-lce. I've hazard that Patch chew-ee
shmclls dreadGl at fust, pershon must git
used to the shmell before they likes it.
Shuro it's parfume used by the qual-
ity i"
This satisfied red-head, and after thor
ough ling" they left the room. In about
two hours the boarders came home from
church," Good gracious, what is it gu
"Bless my soul, Mr.. G., shall faint; oil
my dear, there must be an unclean animal
in the room" and thousand other cx-
pressions were heard as the boarders got a
snuff at the "Patch-ciaw-iee" when they
entered the house. The master and mis-.
tress of the house were puzzled. confounded,
indignant, and in vain endeayored to dis
cover the locality Of the "smell." At din.
ner time there were not half a dozen boar.
ders at the table, and those that were there
were rapidly thinking of backing out, as
the three girls who were ling" we're at.
tending on them. Finally dinner was given
up, and with doors and windows opened,
the inmates alternately froze and suffocatcd.
The day was dire ono to them, but it
wore away some way.
At night the three girls attempted to
comb their hair. The alcohol had evapo-
rated, leaving the balsam Of fir and honey,
and they might as well have attempted to
comb bundle Of shingles. At the very
first dash that red-head made, her comb
caught, and through the influence of the
potasse at the roots, tie whole mass of front
hair came off the side Of the red-head's era
MUM, which she discovered with yell that
would have rendered cannibal envious.--
The same result attended the rest of her
hair, with the exception Of enough to do
up as q scalp lock 70; ornament with featl.
ers. The two othergirls met the same fate,
hand at about ten O'clock that night they
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