Litchfield enquirer., 1858-02-04
Servant Girls vs. Hair Oil.

there 7, Servant Girls vs Hair Oil. i A-Atthe boarding house where Dave and his friends put up" are a number of servant girls and it is the idosyncracy of servant girls to taketbeir share of toilet articles, such as 1 hair oil, perfumes, &c., while they are rejuve- mating; eise apartments of the borders. Dave and his friend Robert were very careful of their respective toilets, and being in courting way had been paying extra attention to per sonal adornment
 They were in the habit of getting pint of hair oil made up by the druggist at one time and hnally, they were in the habit of finding that a 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 It vas not long before they came to 8 conclusion in tue matter. So one evening, that the hair oil cruse was empty, they took the bottle which had contained it, and straight they went to the drug store. There was whis- pered conversation with laughing clerk, and mixing various articles in pint bottle, and the following was marked on the prescription book as the contents
 Of Lac. Asafetda, which for the iLforma- tion of our readers we will state, is highly concentrated extract of that delicious drug of this l OF.
 Of Liquor Potasse-a fluid slightly cele- brated for it's corrosive power, having the power of taking the hair off dog in ten sec onds--1-2 oz .. ... Balsam of Fir--the stickiest and gumiest article knewn--l oz.
 Honey, oz
 Alcohol to make the ingredients fuid--1-2 pint
 This was we'll "shuck," and deposited in the usual place occupied by the hair oil. The next day (Sunday) Dave and Bob dressed themselves for church. and after finishing, trav eled down stairs. But they came up another way in few minutes, and secreted them selves 'in a room adjoining their-, where from couple of panes glass over the door, they could see every thing that went on. After the people of the house had gone, two or three servant !. girls came into Dave's room. ...- -.... . 70 Whist, Molly" said large read.headed Sone-" Mistlnr Dave has some more of the Eile. and my hairs as dhry as powdher; let's have regular fix up wid the folks all away" This was acceded to, and they all went to oil ing their locks, being very lavish with the fu- i'd, which was quite then ill consequence of the alcohol. In few minutes red-bead says:
 "Whirra, what smills so 2' with her rose turned skyward
 "Sure it's the parfume,' interrupted short and dumpy specimen with her hair down her back.
 Parfume, indade," says the red-head-- that's not parfume--it's the rale bad smell" Mebby," says the dumpy, 'it's the Patch Chewley. Pve hazard folks say that Patch Chewley smills dhreadfu at fust person must gtt used to the smill before they likes it. Shure, it's d parfume used by the quality" 1 This satisfied red-head and after a thorough iing" they left the room. In about two hours the boarders came home from church. 1 "Good gracious, what is it Bless my soul, Mir. G., shall faint Oh my dear, there must be an unclean animal in the room l' und thousand ether expressions were heard, as the boarders got sniff at the Patch Chew ly, when they entered the house. The master and the mistress of the house were puzzled,
 confounded, indignant, and in vain endeavored to discover the locality of the smell. At din ner time, there were not half dozen boarders at the table, and those that were there were 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 windows opened, the inmates alternately froze and suAocated. The day was dire Che to them, but it soon wore away
 At night the three girls attempted to comb their hair. The alcohol had evaporated, leav- ing the balsam of honey and fir, and they
 might as well have attempted to comb bunch
 of shingles. At the first dash that red-head
 made, her come caught, and through the inau-
 encs of the potasse at the roots, the whole
 mass of trout hair came of the side of red
 heads cranum, which she discovered with a yell that would have made cannibal envious The same result attended the rest of the hair,
 with the exception of enough to do up as a
 scalp lock, to ornament with feathers, in In. dian style. The other two girls met the same
 fate, and about ten o'clock that night, they might have been seen wrapping up their lost Patch Chewly locks in pieces of paper. The next morning they were informed by the mis tress that she did not desire to employ bald headed servant girls, and with their chists' they departed in almost scalped condition. The discovery of Dave and Bob's connection
 with the transaction was not known till lately, but their toilet articles have been as sacred from touch as the tomb ut Palestine. Father," said cobbler's lad, begging away at an old shoe, "they say trout bit' ! good now" "Well," replied the old man "stick to your work, and they won't bite you l Cb,nA r:.;t, ... th t-.,+ y ., 4ho Av co;l