The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-17
CLAY PIPES FOR CURLING IRONS.
Girls Who Have Returned to the
Method of Their GrandmOthers.

Girls Who Have Returned to the
Method of Their GRANDMOTHER.
New York Sun.
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
as to which we'd rather be doing, Staying
Spaniards with the boys in Cuba or killing
girl came into the shop. She was a swell
you could hear her skirts rustic all over,
like 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 in
duce her to take two.
It's no economy to burden yourself with
something that you have no use for she
said. Economy doesn't mean cheapness,
''Those were her very words. They kinder
knocked the argument out Of fellow. OF
a trade as possible; but 1 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 of the one that she took
and asked if she might leave it with u.s. as
she only wanted the stem. And she put that
stem into her purse-a gold purse it was,
what I'd like 70 know is, what did she want
with that stem? She couldn't smoke with it
or use it for soap bubbles Is it some new
fad for a lemonade stick?'
1t is not always wise to give an opinion
when you are ignorant, so the customer
kept silent, but he thought very hard And
by and by when he passed hairdresSer' S
establishment, he was blessed with an in
spiration. He entered and inquired II there
was anything that fashionable girl could
use a clay pipe stem for.
well, not fashionable girl vouchsafed
the owner; mot if she was one of those up
to-date ones. But if she wasn't''-here an
expression of plying boredom came on his
face-'if she wasn't, she might possibly use
it to curl her hair with
The customer thanked him and went out.
He had taken only a few steps when 1t was
his good fortune to meet an up-to-date girl
with whome he was acquainted. He did
not wish TO be rude, and he did not banker
to let her suspect that there are a few
things that man doesn't know, but would
like to know. AT the same time he couldn'
let an opportunity slip by. So he began.
You have wonderful hair. Naturally
what the hairdresser had just told him.
''All nonsense she answered. HE
doesn't know what he's talking about. Now,
it's the up-to-date girls that do curl their
hair that way. Our grandmothers did it,
and what beautiful soft curls they had!
Lately someone made the discovery that
clay pipes gave a softer and more natural
wave and curl to the hair than irons did,
and it's now the latest fad. It's cheap, too,
and aWfully convenient, for you can put a
pipe-stem in the smallest receptacle. 1 al
ways carry one in my purse. You insert a
hairpin in the large end of it, you know,
and make a handle; then you heat it and
wind your hair around it. You see, we
moderns can't improve SO much upon the
ancients. Old things are best"
He gasped family and lifted his hat. He
felt sure that the tobacco clerk would gasp
also when he knew the secret.