Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1885-11-14
Matching q Lock of Hair.

Matching q Lock of HAIR.
1 had a strange experience once
in human hair,n said member Of
the firm of John e. LAHORE s. Co.,
human hair importers. GA French
lady of noble blood. who had been
my friend for years, wrote me a few
months ago. Enclosing IA lock ofhair,
which WAS peculiar shade ofdrab
and silky fneness. She wanted
me to match it, and 1 set about do.
ing SO.
/ inserted an advertisement IN
in the principal Baltimore,
Philadelphia, New York and Bos-
ton papers, Offering liberal re-
ward for switch of the desired
quality and color. One day a wo.
man of about 20 years Of age, shah.
billy dressed, but with a form aud
face that Venus might have envied
entered my Office.
81 came in answer t. your adver.
tisement," she said, and removing
her hat unbound a luXuriant coil of
hair that called from me an invol-
untary cry of admiration. "Will
this do7 she asked.
II examined her hair and COM
pared it with the sample sent me
by the Countess. The two were
so similar that when ] mixed them
together I could not distinguish
one from the other.
"'This hair is exactly what |
want I said, 'and | will give you
5000 an ounce for it,
"Take it off, she said, with a
nervous trembling of her voice
that at once attracted my attention.
4 am starving, [ and my baby,and
what you are willing to pay is Il
fortune to u.s.
II became interested and ques-
toned her. After a little hesita-
ton she told me. her story. Her
husband had been S;sse1 the above land.
and shortly after they we TEE
ried had sailed for the west
coast of Africa. His vessel was
never heard Of after leaving port,
aud it was presumed that she had
toundered at sea and all hands had
been lost. Tie presumed widow
had struggled to maintain herself
and infant child. but with indiffer-
ent success. Finally, when suffer.
ing from the pangs Of hunger, she
had read my advertisement and
FASTENED to my place OF business,
praying inwardly that her hair,
which had been her husbands
pride, might be of the required
shade.
swell, bought her hair, which
weighed four ounces, and paid her
$500 for it. sent the switch to
my customer, the Countess, and
wrote her the history Of the hair.
She is woman Of great wealth
and goodness Of heart. The re-
turn mail brought NE u letter All.
thorizing me to pay the poor little
sailors widow $1,000 extra. [
wrote an account of the affair,
which was published. One day,
about three weeks after the publ
cation of the story, a man who was
bronZed and bearded, came into
my Office very much excited. He
Leid in his hand copy of a New
York paper, and unfolding if point
ed to my story.
"'Can you give me the address
of this woman?' he asked eagerly.
She Is my wife. l thought her
dead.w
"While I wrote down the adj.
dress he told me his story. His
vessel had been shipwrecked on
the African coast, and he and two
others of the crew alone managed
to reach the shore. 1t was several
months before they managed to
reach a civilized port. He imme
diately sent word of the disaster
to the owners of the foundered YES
sci aud to his young wife. From
the former he received a reply, but
he heard no word from his wife,
and when he reached Philadelphia
be discovered that she had mys-
teriously disappeared. One day in
looking over a paper he came
across my story and had hurried
to my office to learn further partic-
ulars. | sent him to his wife in my
carriage, and you can imagine
what occurred at the meeting, for
each believed the other dead. I
wrote to the Countess, giving the
sequel to the story, and the result
was that the ship wrecked captain
now commands her yacht, and the
wife who sacrificed her hair to buy
bread sails with him on every voy-
age."- Philadelphia Times.
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