The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-24
TWO COINCIDENCE STORIES.


Chicago Inter Ocean. 1t was the
secretary's turn to tell yarn to his
fellow members of the Coincidence
Club. The Coincidence Club, by the
way, has no cumbersome machinery.
1t has members and officers, meets
once week to tell queer stories along
the line suggested by its name, and
everything but the strict truth is bar
red.
"I've got two stories, much alike,
to tell. There's nothing dramatic
or sensational about them. They
struck me as queer, though. You
know I'm a lawyer. One day man
named Dodge brought in letter of
introduction to me from friend out
west. He had a simple sort of case,
and I asked him to come back at 4
O. clock that afternoon. Then went
over to the criminal court on business
that kept me till within a few min
utes of 3 o'clock. As I entered my
office there was man sitting in the
shadow. Without really looking at
him, and with my mind full of the ap-
pointment l said, as 1 went to my
private Office:
How are you, Mr.. Dodge? I'll
see you in minute.
Pretty soon 1 rang and told the Of
flee boy to show in Mr.. Dodge. The
man came in and he wasn't my Mr..
Dodge at all. Imagine my surprise
when he said:
How did you know my name? At
the same time he handed me letter
Of introduction from a friend down
east. His name was Dodge all right,
and he had case. Igasped over the
situation. explained the coincidence to
my visitor, and even showed him the
other letter of introduction. But the
man did not believe me. He evident
ly thought I was liar, and left with
out putting his case in my hands. A
few minutes later in came the first
Mr.. Dodge, and we had a good laugh
over it. The other coincidence was
this: I got letters from two friends
one west of Chicago and one south,
asking me to collect claims against a
big Chicago firm and a big insurance
company with an agency in Chicago.
telephoned and made appointment
with representatives of each of the
concerns-one at II and the other at
~. 80 o'clock. / went out on an er-
rand and was delayed until 1890
O'Clock. When I came back both
men were waiting. Strange as it
may seem, both men were name Rose.
I introduced them. One was origi-
naiiY from Rhode Island and the other
from Connecticut AS far as they
could figure out they were not rela-
ted. I've used false names, but other
wise the stories are strictly true, and
--ean-ne proEadisoq1 e4idence that will wi /;
QUEER MODES E-.zzasAf-Ja4ssS,sSSsaaaGIs. sSsSa aIsa' u
Straight and wonderful as many of
the eighteenth century headdresses
may appear, there are various peoples
more or less savage that possess orig
inal ideas of their own on the subject.
Some of these inspirations in the way
of hairdressing are worth noting for
their ug1iness, others for their inge-
nuity and few for their beauty. The
Chinese woman's fashion of wearing
her hair like swarm of bees suspen-
ned on stick at the back of her head
is not bewitching, and must be un-
comfortable. The Laos have more
becoming style. Their hair is train
ed up all round the head, and the
mass of it encircled at the top by
fllet of bone or ivory. The Tamil
coolie does his hair in a plain bun be-
hind his neck. The Cambodian wo-
man parts hers in front, allowing a
tress to flow down behind each ear,
while at the back she arches it up
like jam roll and fastens it with two
huge pins.
Some African styles are peculiar.
Among the Djimma tribes the invert-
ed beehive style attracts notice; with
the ONO in the southeast, shaggy
crop of corkscrews shows an immense
amount of care and labor, while the
styles of the Fulehs of the west vary
from a close imitation of a fringed
and tasselled skull cap, to gabled or
turreted pile, with gargoyles and
lightning rods. The Amhara women
train one of a hundred stiff curls
down each cheek with varnish, so
that the face appears to be looking
between two bars Of cage. The
Koullo woman fuzzes he locks out
into huge halo of crooked curls,
which suggest whelks, and the Mala-
gaseys vie with one another in seeing
which can get his or her hair to stand
out at right angles to the scalp for
the greatest distance.
These are merely few of the styles
for the most part as grotesque and
ugly as savage wit can make them.
For what becoming fashions there
may be among savage races we must
look more especially to the Hawaiins,
who wear their black hair in ripping
tresses, garlanded with scarlet and
purple flowers, and to the Fijians,
who, in their hairdressing, are moth
ing if not ornamental and superbly
architectural.