The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1879-03-06
lHcpewell Letter to the ReaIlu- Pa Eagle. ]
HER BEAUTIFUL HAIR.
How a PeansylTanIa Golfers Wife
Was Robbed OF Her Golden
TraSseS.

/ y very sal event took place III IN,
! family Of jesse Burden, a humble col
ller, residing in the blckwOO!s about
two miles from here, the particulars OF
/ which have Just learned -SeTera
weeks ago" Mr. Burden SAYS, - stran.
ger came 10 my house in the evening
about supper time. He was a well
dressed man. and took him 10 he an
lsrLelite- lie rode strong booking
SOrrel horse, and his birdie had white
/ IVORY martingdl rings. He c.Illed Inc
out Of the house and We talked n the
I front gate. He first asked IN. whether
my children wanted their hair cat.
thought he WAS a rather gJDl looking
barber, and told him 81. lie replied
he was not barber, but hair mer-
chant, and WIS out buyin5 hair. Ifelt
proud OF my wife's hair, and was
foolish enough ID ask the stranger in
the house TO look at it. NJ wire is a
modest woman, and at first she found
fault with my bringing tie mm il. |
thought lt WAS all right, lnl in my
cOnceit, asked nv wife to take down
her hair. Well, il WAS pretty, think
the finest head of hair, | ever saw in
my life. 1t was golden yellow, As the
! - W. , AlAAAl VI AlsAAfAAs DtAN -
/ color Just like gold. | WIS Interested
in hair, and have real gOOI deal
| about the subject. | alwIvs real that
hair like nv wife's was always cuasid-
cred the most valuable. Nv wife un-
did hers, and it hung way down below
her waist She could easily sit on il
without bending much ether. The
! hair WAS very thick | never saw its
/ nvnral TFn-
! great deal. 1t WAS So no. that her head
many times felt as il a regular fever
| had set if. She often threatened
to cut il off. | said, No. Eliza dOn'JdO
that. like that hair, and il Is my
pride She kept it on for my sake,
Just To crafty my pride AMI cOnceit.
Finally she thought just as | did, and
valued il equally AS highly. She is
good woman to me. and l am a good
man to her. Well, the stranger looked
at the hair and said it WAS very nice
He measured the back hair, and it
measured forty inches. You may not
believe il, but it is All actual fact, forty
inches full and plenty of It. The
stranger said that ii WAS useless for a
housewife to wear so much hair, and
that some day it would make my wife
sick. lie then made us an offer for
sthe hair. He actually offered my wife
800 cash for it. That was tempting
offer. | worked nearly a whole year
for that. The stranger left 5md said
he would return IN 4 week. When he
had gone we talked about it. Ny wife
said she was willing to do it, because
we were poor. and 500 would pay eve
ry cent of debt we had OH our house. L
said no ut first, but my wife cOaxed me,
and said that in few years time her
hair would grow out again and would
be just as pretty as ever. 1t took a
great deal of considering, but finally
said. 'all right; if you think You will
never regret it and never be sorry,
why, 90 aheadp Well, the agent called
and we had another talk. 1t was
about the money. He showed US the
cash, all in new notes He then show
ed us gold, and told US we could have
our choice. didn't know much about
gold, so | told him | would be satisfied
with the greenbacks. He said. All
right He pulled out pair of SciS-
sOrS and then counted down the money.
My wife put it in her pocket and then
let down her hair. could not stay in
the house to see it cut. The children
did, though. In less than half an hour
the hair was off. The stranger then
rolled it up nicely in a silk OilclOth and
sat down awhile. When | came in nv
wife WAS crying. She had looked in
the lOOking-glasS. l saw her and felt
pretty bad. The stranger said we
shouldn't take it 50 much to heart. |
forgot to tell you that the stranger
Dlalnly told uS not to sell the hair if
we thought we'd be sorry for it after
ward. He reminded us of this after
ward. After talking n while he left,
and that is the last / ever heard of
him. looked at the money again and
thought it was all right, but two days
afterward l learned that the money
WAS counterfeit; actually, every 81
bill was bad. was in Coatesville and
in Philadelphia, and the men there
told me the notes were bad. You can
think how my wife felt on that day
o it's awful, and my wife cries about
it every day"