The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1858-02-19
The Servants Hair Oil and the
BOarders.

At the boarding house where Dave
and his friends put up, are number of
servant girls, and it is an idiosyncracy of
servant girls, to take their share of toilet
articles, such as hair oil, perfumes, &C.,
while they are rejuvenating the apart
ments of the boarders. Dave and his
friend Rober were very careful of their
respective toilets, and being in court
ing way, had been paying extra attention
to personal adornment.
They were in the habit of getting a
pint of hair oil made up by the druggist
at a time; and finally, they were in the
habit of finding that pint of this costly
hair oil wouldn't last week, and that all
the servant girls in the house emitted the
same perfume they did TWAS not long
before they came to conclusion in the
matter. So one evening, finding that the
hair oil cruise was empty, they took the
bottle which had contained it, and
straightway they went to the drug store.
There was whispered conversation with
laughing clerk, and mixing various ar
ticles in a pint bottle, and the following
was marked on the prescription book as
the contents:
Of Lac. Asafntida-m Tx of asafceti-
da which for the information Of our rea-
ders we will state, is highly concentra-
ted extract of that delicious drug which
smells like onions-of this OF.
OF Liquor Potasse-a fluid highly eel
brated for its corrosive power, having
the power Of taking the hair off dog
1-2 OF.
Balsam of Fir-the stickiost and gum
miest article known-1 OF.
Alcohol, to make the ingredients
huid-12 pint.
This was well ''shuck," and deposited
in the usual place occupied by tho hair
oil. The next day Sunday Dave and
Bob dressed thcmselr cs for church, and
after finishing, travelled down stairs
But they came up another way in few
minutes, and secretcd themselves in
room adjoining theirs. where from cou-
pie of panes over the door, they could
see everything that went on. After
the people of the house had gone, two
or three servant girls came into Dawes
room.
whist. Molly said large, rcd-head-
ed -'Misthur Dave has some more of
the lie and my hairs as dhry as powdher;
let's have a regular fix up, wild the folks
all away This was acceded to and they
all went to oiling their locks, being very
lavish with the fluid, which was quite
thin in consequence of the alcohol. In a
few minutes red head says,
'Whrra, what smills so?' with her nose
turned skyward.
Sure it's the parfumc,' interrupted a
short and dumpy specimen,wi her hair
down her back.
Perfume, indade,' says the rel head
that's not parfume-it's the rale bad
smell of that animal what looks like a
cat
'Mebby, says dumpy, cts the Patch
Chewly. I've hazard folks say that
Patch Chewly smills dhradful at tirst a
pershon must get used till the smill before
they likes it. Shure. its parlume used
by the quality.
This satisfied red-hcad, and after
thorough 'ileing,' they left the room. In
about two hours the boar(lers came home
from church.
GOOD gracious, what is it? Bless my
soul Mr. G., | shall faint! 0, my dear,
there must be that bad smelling animal
in the roomr and q thousand other eX-
pressions were heard, as the boardcrs got
a sniff at the Patch Chewly, when they
entered the house. The master and the
mistress of the house were puzzled, con-
founded, indignant, and in vain cndcavor-
ed to discover the locality Of the smell. AT
dinner time. there were not half dozen
boardcrs at the table, and those that were
there We're rapidly thinking of backing
out, as the three girls who were lied
were waiting on them. Finally dinner
was given up, and with doors and win
dows opened, the inmates alternately
troze and suffocated. The day was a dire
one to them, but it soon wore away.
At night the three girls attempted to
comb their hair. The alcohol had evap
GRATED, leaving the balsam of honey and
fir, and they might as well have attemp-
ted to comb bunch of shingles. At the
first dash that that red-head made, her
comb caught, and through the influence
of potasse at the roots, the whole mass OF
front hair came off the side of red-head S
Uranium, which she discovered with a
veil that would have made a cannibal
enyious. The same result attended the
rest of the hair, with the exception OF
enough to do up as scalp lock, to orna-
mcnt with feathers, in Indian style. The
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