The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-18

of hair on this bald head. but I can
chase these wrinkles off and fill up some
of the hollows. You don't want folks
to take me for your father, do your
who was talking to you today?''
queried Mrs. BOwSer after silence.
during which the cat came up the base
ment stairs with a grin on her race
Half dozen different men,"
But who was talking to you about
your wrinkles?'
There was man in the office to
sell recipe. He was a professor, be-
lieve. At any rate. he had a good
thing, and 1 bought it. He was man
fifty-five years old, and he hadn't
wrinkle on his face. Three applications
| took about an acre of them off.
IF it's such a good thing, why don't
you go into the business of making and
selling it?'' she asked in a tone meant
to be sarcastic.
That's what I am boing to do. TIL
get somebody to handle it as side
| line. I figure that it can be made for
10 cents a box and sold for so cents,
and that's a good enough profit l m
going TO make I'D a batch of it this
evening and give it a thorough trial 1
J brought home all the ingredients. If
L get up in the morning with half my
wrinkles gone. you'll say it's a good
thing, won't you?''
Mrs Bowser realized that nothing
short of the house being unroofed by
a tornado would stop him from making
that compound and giving it a trial.
and she made no protests. When a man
who is treading close to sixty begins to
/ find fault with the wrinkles on his face,
he is in no mood to argue the question.
She quietly continued her reading while
he descended to the kitchen and asked
the cook for a tin cup and a hunk of
| lard
rs it dynamite you are going to
make, sir?'' she asked as she got ready
to flee.
Nonsense. You see these wrinkles
on my face. don't you?"
II do, sir
well. I'm going to make a prepara-
tion to take them off 1t will be called
Bowser's Wrinkle Chaser. and 1 hope
to get rich out of it. Three applications
will do the trick"
Yes, sir, but you'd better be little
careful, sir. 1 had a brother of fifty
who put on something to remove wrin-
kles, and his face all screwed up until
you thought he was smelling Goldfish all
the time. They offered him SIS week
to go to a dime museum. but the dog
faced man threatened to strike and kept
him out of a Job. 1t may not explode.
sir, but I'll go up to my room until you
get through experimenting.
Mr.. Bowser had provided himself
with what the recipe called for, and
as the lard melted he poured the in
gradients in and soon had his mixture
complete. When a few drops of sas-
safras oil had been poured in to give it
a scent. be set the dish away in the
icebox to cool and went upstairs.
We'll, there was no explosion or
other calamity" he said as he sat down
and took the cat on his knee.
II should be careful of it, replied
Mrs. Bowser. Isn't there any old
tramp around you could hire to let you
experiment on him?"
I'm not experimenting on tramps!'
he shouted as his temper was touched
by the spark. ''You might just as well
ask me to try it on the cat. Do you
ride of lime for a wrinkle remover
That professor had been in the busi-
nes for thirty years. 1t was this very
compound that removed the wrinkles
from Napoleon's face when he was 81
years old
But Napoleon didn't live to be 85.''
'Then it was the emperor of Russia
or Germany. I know it was some big
. gun or other. The stuff is all right
Bowser's Wrinkle Chaser will be known
as the best thing out before another
month has passed, and don't you forget
it. You can go to bed now, and I'll come
up after the stuff has got cool enough
to, apply. When you gaze into my face
in the morning, you'll be surprised, anG
the children in this block will wonder
where Grandpa Bowser has gone
1t was half an hour after Mrs. Bowsel
went up stairs before Mr.. Bowser was
ready to apply the Chaser. He removed
coat, vest and collar and tie, and he ap-
piled the mixture with liberal hand as ht
SlOOu DefOre the glass. Wnen ne mac
plastered what he thought was
proper quantity, he began the work O.
| massage. In other words. he began rub
bling as briskly as possible, and it WASH
long before the friction began to tell
There was a glow, followed by burning
and prickling, and for three or four min
, utes he believed those wrinkles were slid
ing off his face around the back of hi:
neck and falling on the floor to be eater
up by the cat. Then the burning grew
, worse, and he could almost feel his Skin
shriveling up under it. Having Mrs
7 Bowser S warning his mind, he Slipped
, down into the kitchen and removed TIL,
grease with a dis towel, but the burnins
went on just the same. He drew pan O
cold water and laved his face and in do
ing so struck dozen raw spots and yeIles
aloud.
We'll, has Bowser's Chaser chased then
away?" queried a voice behind him, anC
he looked around to find that Mrs Bow
ser had stolen softly down.
THE blamed stuff is eating the face of
me!' he hoarsely whispered as he ben
over the water.
Yes? But the wrinkles will be re
moved, you know"
"Cuss the wrinkIesi Woman. if some
thing is not done for me-
Yes, I know Come upstairs and II
soak your face in sweet Gil: also you
head. Your face will probably be raw
and blistered for weeks to come and yol
may have a dozen new wrinkles to TAX
care of, but you'll live through it and per
haps get another call from the professor
He may drop in to sell you a hair grove
used by Nero when he was a hundre,
years old, and you'll buy it and becon
bald clear down to your shoulders -
Copyright, 1902, by c. B. Lewis)