, 1874-04-05

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II will will try bottle With you It WILL amuse
| mo; bat not change my hair"
"Sir {wrote Stspieton, snatching up his pen),
"you will be 80 good as to send me, secured
from public observation, = bottle Of your Hair
Restorer, for which I inclose three and nine-
pence. Your obedient servant,
A1aERsoN srAp1EroS.
Is To RossErER, Esq"
This letter posted that morning. Oh! would
| that l had not done SOL
PART Il
FIAsCO.
| + was alarmed on receiving about three days
Afterwards, the following letter from Stapleton
DEAN WAL1EA: Come at once an yery-very
| Ill. Yours, AS.
hastened to stapleton's rooms. There I
found him, stretched on sofa, looking
THE PICTURE OF MISERY.
"Good gracious r. said. ''whnt has hap
pened 2"
He gurgled md gasped reply. His face was
expressive Of utter disgust, even more than Of
positive pain He asked me,msnd 11:1 these were
| gradients Of Rosseters dye ?-do you know Z"
I said believed it WAS m innocent compound
Of sulphur, and water. with sediment OF acetate
| Of lead to secure the color. I conld not speak
| as saTant for did not understand such mat
| ters; but my opinion, though feebly
| CLEANED, was that acetate OF lead Was q
! poison, it taken in very large quantities.
| Fraaa external application, however, no sort Of
harm could be dreaded.
External application! I" howled poor Staple
ton . I h,ra 1aken \ hntt,e ;nwarf1lvi Ijstan
| while tell you what has happened. Feeling
| rather poorly yesterday I sent for 3 medical
qulckener. 1t came. Il was exactly like, IN
color and quantity, the Rcstorer that toas in that
bottle. But. in nv fear lest any one should
Recognize tie nestorer as it stood on nv table.
AZ an unguent. ! had removed the label from. the
bottle s,ul. IN q moment OF ABSENCE Of mind. I
SWALLOWED the WHOLE OF THE nEsronEn,
in mistake tor the dose mad sent for. It has
made me feel very III. was really ashamed to
SHE" -@
I srppested q pa1]iatiye thoucbt of. and in
q verv fex hours Ia was wall Rut nothing conId
induce him to renoy his experience OF Rosseter's
cream -colored wasn.
So soon, however, as ho WIS recovered. his
mind reverted to the theme. He said to me in
dit1ident manner, and half-smiling at his own
imbeclity, g What Is your opinion Of Mrs Allen
Of m hst 4sno1s S which 'he
Now, was anxious that Stapleton should dye;
but not that he should lmpregnate MS system
with glycerine and acetate OF lead: had heard
OF men suHerlng horflole pa.ns from lmbioing
the latter Ingredient; and though, Of course, IN
hair-dye the quantity Is small, still II taken
III bottles Of tlme, tue result coola NOT Do sa1u-
brious. So enid, Perhaps it would be safer to
Try sonic other ktnd OF aye* mrs. AlIent
l know, has very nne pictures OF ladlea
back-halr, and shoulders; aud, doubtless, will
restore. 8 worldwide hair b. her wash. sold
only in large bottles; but should hazard that
4 sPEEDER DYE,
whose effects would be permanent while quick.
would savo you an inhnity OF trouble, and would
not be mistaken for draushts."
Ho caught the idea. Ho said, II will mike
my own dye"
- Pray do not" I answered. "Zosicrucians
or alchemists may toy with drugs, with very little
danger to their lives but for amateurs in dye to
compound rank poisons, is simply to invita- de-
etruction."
So he said, sDo you think that sAuncemus'
would become me,"
And he laughed at the fond conceit. t'That
gold shnde is not without merit. But, to be
sure it never WAS nine"
81 EXACTLY" replied. "The normal absu1dity
OF people who dye is, that they choose color
not their own. a fair man will come out in jet
black hair; md dark man III rays Of the sun.
Now. prudence in coloris closely akin to prudence
in language aud manners. For man Of bright
gayety to assume the undertaken would be an
error in choice Of vocation; and for lusnbr1ous
mortal to become a pantaloon, would be to make
himself atll mora unhappy. Yet men who dye,
~ rule, select
THEIR uosr AST1PopA1 COLOR
They advertise their art by public proclarna-