Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-08-13
CLAY PIPE CURLING-IRoNs.
An InquIsItiVe Man Finds OSs That
Up-to-Dntc Girls lave Returned to
Method of Their GrandmOthers.

This is the story the puzzled tobacco
clerk told the customer:
Business was lax, and it was too
hot TO work, anyway. We were Just
LAYING a bet ms to which we'd rather
be doing, Staying Spaniards with the
boys in Cuba or killing time where
we were. when all of a sudden a girl
| came into The shop. She was a swell;
You could hear her skirt rustic all
over. like Il ghost, you know. And
she was pretty, too. | supposed she
was after cigars for some poor fellow,
and was about to bring out our most
expensive and worst sort, when what
do YOU think she asked for?Clay pipes.
And she wanted the penny kind, too.
Now, we only keep two sorts-ten.
cent-apiece ones and the two for a
cent. But she wanted only one, and
nothing could induce her to take two.
Its no economy to burden your
self with something that you have no
use for she said. Economy doesn't
mean cheapness, but utility
"Those were her very words. They
kinder knocked the argument out of
a fellow. Of course, it's policy to
make as much out of a trade as pos.
sible; but | wanted her to get the
worth of her money But she had a
will of her own, she did, and what's
more, she broke the bowl off the one
that she took and asked if she might
leave ii with us, as she only wanted
the stem. And she put that stem into
her purse-a gold purse it was, all
done up'in pearls, and went out. Now.
what I'd like to know is, what did she
want with that stem? She couldn't
smoke with it or use it for soap bub-
bles. Is it some new fad for a lemon
ade stick?"
1t is not always wise to give an opin-
ion when You are ignorant, 50 the
customer kept silent, but he thought
very hard, and by and by when he
passed a hairdresser's establishment
he was blessed with an inspiration
entered and inquired if there was
anything that a fashionable girl could
use IA clay pipe stem for.
"Well, not a fashionable girl, "vouch-
the owner; mot if she was one
of those up-to-date ones. But if she
N~asnt"-here an expression of pity.
-ng boredom came on his face-'if
wasn't she might possibly use il
10 curl her hair WITH
The customer thanked him and
out. He had taken only a few
when it was his good fortune
o meet an up-to-date girl with whom
he was acquainted. lie did not Wist
o be rude, and he did not banker ,
o let her suspect that there are q
Few things that man doesn't know
out would like to know. At the same :
lime he couldn't let an opportunity :
by. So he began:
"Nou have wonderful hair. Nat .
rally curly, of course" and went on 3
o tell her what the hairdresser had
lust told him. !
"All nonsense" she averred. "lle :
Doesn't know what he's talking about. s
Vow, it's the up-to-date girls that do h
'url their hair that way. Our grand !
mothers did it, and what beautiful y
oft curIs they had. Lately some one s
made the discovery that clay pipes b
a softer and more natural wave !,
md curl to the hair than irons did, "
md it's now the latest fad. It's cheap e
90, and awfully convenient. for you ?
put a pipestem in the smallest re- 6
eptacle. | always carry one in my c
You insert a hairpin in the 8,
lrgc end of it, you know, and make a u
andle: then you heat it and wind r
our hair around it,. You see, we N
loderns can't improve so much upon II
he ancients, Old things are best" Il
lie gasped family and lifted his hat. k,
lie felt sure that the tobacco clerk ST
'ouId gasp also when he knew the N
ecret.-N. Y. Sun. ~