The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-05-27

At the boarding house where Dave and his
friends put up, are q number Of servsnt
girls, and ii is the idiosyneracy Of servant
girls to take their shaEe Of toilet articles,
such as hair oil, perfumes, &C.. while they
are reiuvenating the apartments Of the
boarders. Dave and his friend Robert were
very careful Of their respective toilets, and
being in courting way, had been paying
extfa attention 70 persoRul udornhent.
They were III the habit of getting'a pint
of hair oil made up by the druggist at one
time; and 6nalls they we're VI the habit Of
finding that q pine Of this costly hair oil
wouldn't last week, and thdtall the ser.
ysnt girls in the house used the same per-
fume they did. Il was not long before they
came to q conclusion 10 the matter. So
one evening, when the hair oil cruise was
empty, they took the bottle which contain.
ed it, and straight they went to the drug
store. There was whispering conversa.
tion with the laughing clerk, and mixing
various articles ia pint bottle, and the fol.
lowing was in the prescription book as the
contents:
OF Lac Assafetida, which for the infor-
nation Of our readers we will state, is high.
ly concentrated extract Of that delicious
drug-of this, OF. ....-..... --., r..
Of Liquor Potasse, "a fluid celebrated for
it's corrosive poweri having the power OF
taking the hair of dog in ten seconds,) !
Of Balsath Of Fur, (the stickies. and gum.
tniest article kno&n,) OF.
OF Honey, ! OF. 49,.
AGoho!, to make the ingredients fluid,
J pint.
This was well "shook," and deposited in
the usual place occupied by the hair oil.
The next day, Sunday Dave and Bob
dtesaed themselves for church, and after fin'
ishing, travelled down stairs. But they
came in another way in few minutes, and
secreted themselves in a room adjoining
theirs, where, from couple of panes ofglass
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" soid large red'headeC
one, "Misthur Dave has some more Of the
lie, and my hairs as dhry as powdher; let'i
, have regular FIX up wild the folks all away
This was acceded to. and they all went to
: oiIing, their locks being very lavish with
the fluid, which was very thin in conse-
quence of the alcohol. In few minutes
red head says: ~.
), "Whirra, what sriils sol" with her nose
turned skywurd.
"Sure it's the tarfnme," interrupted a short
; and dumpy specimen, with her hair down
: her back. .-.
"Parftime, indade," says red head-"that'i
not parfume--it's the rale bad SMELL"
"Mebby," says the dumpy, "its Patel
Chuwly. I've heard folks say that Patel
Chuwlt smilli dreadful at fust; persol
: must get used TO 1t before they likes it,
Sure it's perfume used by the quality"
9 This satisfied red head, and after thor
. ough "ilihg," they left the room. In abou
> two hours the boarders came home fror
church.
"Good gracious, what Is it! Bless m
b" soul, Mr.. G., shall faint Oh my dea
10 there must be an unclean animal id tn
u room !" and thousand other expression
were heard as the boarders got sniff Of tn
70 Patch Chuwly, when they entered the hons'
~ The master and mistress Of the house wei
). puzzled, COMPOUNDED, indignant and vain
" endeayored to discover the locality Of tt
" smell. At dinner time there was not ho
dozen boarders at the table; and those wi
=, were there were rapidly thinking Of backir
y out, as the three girls who :" lied" were wal
ing on them.
. . Finally dinner was given up, and wi
y doors and windows opened, the inmates a
:" ternately smothered and suffocated. II
- day was dry one, but it soon wore away.
'. Atnight the girls attempted to comb thu
u hair. The alcohol had evaporated, leavir
the balsom Of Cir and honey and they mig
:" as we'll have attempted to com6 bunch
It" shingles. At the first dash that red. he
10 made, her cbtnb catght; aid through the j
ot y, fuencs Of tie PotaSse at the roots, the %hc
~ mass cf ffoht hair came of red heads CT
So niuti which she discovered with yell Il
q. B. =
''' - would have made canhibal. Tie same
~ suit attended the rest Of the hair with
- exception Of enough 70 dou as scalp 10
~ =" to ornament with feathers. in Indian sty
~ The other two girls met the same fate, ,
1' ~, about ten O'Clock that night, they mi
10 10 have been seen Wrapping their lost Pa
!, : Chuwly locks in pieces Of paper, The n
M ~. morning they were informed by the diistr
a'' that she did not desire to employ Bald.ie
'y ed servant girls, and with their "chists" q
.o departed 10 an almost scalPed condition.
IN The discovery Of Dave and Bob's conn
lgs' tion with the transaction was, not kno
'rv till lately, but their toilet articles since 4
'ntS have beet de iaSted ffom touch ts tho te
of Palestine.
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