Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-10-16
HAD HIS HAIR DYED.
1t Was not at Ali the Fashion but He
Insisted, and the OBJ Was Done.


1t Was not at All the Fashion but He
Insisted, and the Job Was Done.
New York Sun.
A man with bull neck, and nose
and STUDY mustache went into
Broadway barber shop few days ago
and after catching the eye of the pro
prletor motioned to him, and they
walked off toward the washstand to-
gether Here they held whispered
conversation, and presently the man
Invested himself of his collar, scarf,
coat, sat down in the boss chair, and
looked rather foolishly around. His
face had ruddy color. which consort-
ed well with the rather reddish tinse
of his hair and mustache. His hair
wss not genuine red, but still it was
not quite brown. 1t was close clipped
and agreeable to look at You're
making big mistake" said the boss
confidentialiy.
"Well, who'll suffer-" growled thu
customer.
"Well, of course, if you want to do
it, it's your own affair; but l advise
you not to-"
"Ain't you making s. out OF the
iob?" asked the bull-necked man peev~
ishly. You charge enough, I'll
swear.
Goa, OF course, of course" said the
barber, politely; anything to please
our customers. Still. feel | oughtto
tell you that it has gone completely
out of fashion. Although 1 have got
the tools here, it is fully three years
since have dyed mans hair or mus
tache. Thenatural color is thouS>
and per cant. better, no matter what
it may be- Still, if you say go on,
why I'll do it for you"
The man had gone there to have
his hair dyed and he was evidently
resolved to carry his scheme through.
The BARRIERS boy mounted step ladder
AND pulled down long bundle from
the top of the long case where the
cups were kept, and dropped it on the
floor. 1t was covered with dust. The
other BARRIERS gathered around the
bull>necked man watched them In the
mirror as though he were ashamed of
himself. Every time they looked at
him he dropped his eyes, couehed and
shifted uneasily in his seat, The boss
wrapped innumerable towels around
his neck, covered them all In turn
with a big cloth that looked like
blanket and enveloped the figure, and
then busting off huge rubber blanket
which was in the bundle he tied this
around the mau's neck with such sud
denness and force that the victim
gasped and gurgled. Then it was
loosened AT this point the foreman
stepped up, and with friendly interest
ran his fat hands over the bullnecked
mans face. and smiled pleasantly at
him.
eff you'll take dead level tip from
friend what amt got no prejudlces,"
said the foreman pleasantly, you'll
have your hide scrapea before you're
dyed"
The man moved very unoasily.
Then the oldest barber in the shop
came up. rubbed his hands through
the auburn locks of the bashful, bull
necked visitor, who wanted nothing
so much as to be left alone, and said:
"Huml On. yes. Coin to have
it dyed, eh2 You seem to be sweatln,
too"
swell what if I amS' said the man
in the chair, sitting up strait, and
thereby pulling all the towels, rubbers
end blankets out of his neck. Cant
sweat if L want to2"
"Why, certainly" interposed the
foreman quickly, Let the gentleman
perspire, William. 1t don, t cost nothla
and it seems to relieve his feelin's
At this point younger barber sug.
gested that shampoo was a good
thing to start off on if you were going
to dye the hair, and the friend of the
foreman who wore pair of drab over
CATERS, a bobtailed blouse, a strong
cigar, and plug hat, gathered around
the customer with the others, and told
them about the attack of insanity
which caught fathers the day after
some poisonous hair dye got through
his SCALP into his brain. You see"
the gentleman with the cigar added,
lmpressively, "my fathers brother
had his scalp cut by a saber wound IN
the war twenty years ago, and some
Of the hair dye must have got into his
brain"
Meanwhile the barber, the boss, and
the boy wero having it out at the wash
staad. The boy had, of course, drop
ed the only bottle of hair dye in the
shop on the marble. and besides stain
ed the basins, himself. and a large
portion of the boss, had spilled most
of the dye. What remained OF the
liquid was caught in soap dish, and
during the next twenty minutes the
barber and his begrimed and blub5er
ing boy daliisd with the hair and mus
tache of the stranger, while a crowd
of five or six BARRIERS and customers
stood around and made remarks, and
the Precipitation ran down the strang
ers nose ard dripped mournfully upcn
the apron. Another twenty minutes
was consumed Ia dressing the hair and
in trying to stain the victims nustache
with cut getting any Oh his face. l:
was not a glittering and equivocal
success; aud when, an hour and a
half later. the bullnecked customer
dashed into the street, people turned
to look at the man with the ruddy face,
the blue green hair, and nustache
tina: was a cross between terra-cotta
aud a deep moroon.