The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24
PARTED WITH HER TRESsEs.
What Happened to n Girl Who Dried
Her Hair in a Clothes Wringer.

New York Sun.
An electric hair dryer appeared and a COM
mon clothes wringer disappeared at an As
bury Park bathing place last week And
thereby hangs tale.
"We lent the wringer to a girl from Mis-
souri, to take her hair home in" explained
the young person with the dropping pompa-
dour who runs the women's end of the es-
Establishment. Being from Missouri, you
see, she wanted to know, and, of course she
found out
The speaker was telling her story by this
time to group of young women who also
wanted to know. just like the maiden from
Missouri. So while they coiled their hair
and wrung the salt water out of their bath
ing costumes they listened.
"Of course, you girls all know that when
you want to dry your hair with clothes
wringer you must first wrap towel around
II and be sure there are no loose ends stick
ing out" pursued the story teller. But
the girl from Missouri didn't know that
and neither did her sister who was with
her..
They'd been bathing here for several
days and drying their hair in the sun And
such hair, 1t was simply be-you-ti-ful.
Red and gold and glossy--you know. The
kind the dyer can't make for any of us.
And when they had it almost dry they'd
walk back to their hotel with Ii hanging
down their backs, and for the next fifteen
minutes the boys would be coming around
asking, confidentially:
Say, May, who are those girls with the
auburn hair? Can't you put us on?
We'll, was sitting here last Wednesday
morning when one of the sisters strolled
along and noticed the old clothes .wringer.
oh, how nicev she said, and then turn
ing to me she asked:
lis that here to wiring out. bathing
suits?
".No,' / said, that's for your hair. TO
wiring the water out of it,
". Why, that's perfectly lovely. I'll go
and tell my sister And off she went.
81 had TO go to the office about that time
and 1 just stopped minute to chat with a
gentleman from Baltimore-the one that
lent me his turquoise pin-when some one
began to scream right out here where we're
standing.
..Of course, rushed out to see what was
the matter. And what do you suppose il
was? That girl from Missouri had taken
that be-you-ti-ful hair of hers and put IL
into the wringer plain-jsst loose. you
know, without any towel around to hold il,
and had got her sister to turn the crank
''You can imgaine what happened. Part
of the hair stuck TO the upper roller of the
wringer and wrapped tight around it as
it revolved. and when the handle was turned
the other way the rest of the hair got wound
around the other roller.
Then the girl at the handle lost her head
and began TO work the thing violently back
and forth in a desperate effort to undo the
mischief, and that was when her sister be-
gan to scream.
by that time nearly two feet of the girls
hair was so tangled up In the Wrlnger that
nobody on earth could have got II free and
we just had to cut IL off about a foot from
her head.
when she got up and looked in the glass
over there she just gave gasp and wall
and then began to sob And. of course, you
can't blame her. Who would?
Her sister called cab and they went
back to their hotel. About an hour later the
sister came back and said she'd like to bor-
row that wringer.
II guess you may have IL. said /. but
what you going to do with it, didn't
know but she going to sue us for
damages and wanted the wringer for EVIL
dence
Sister wants TO get her hair back. she
answered. She thinks maybe she can put
il on again.
well. | hope she may said /. think
ing they'd both gone a little dotty over
the thing and you're welcome TO the
wringer, for we've decided TO put in an
electric drier in its place
do you know that those girls took that
wringer apart and got the hair out of IL.
and then they combed and combed until the
tangles were all gone and IL was as fine
as ever-only OF course 1t was still de-
tached
but it wasn't detached for long. The
sister took IL 10 hair dresser and told
HIM she had 10 have switch made in a
hurry. and he said all right he'd have II
ready the next morning. And he did
while she was waiting for il the cir
had her meals served In her room and
didn't show herself among the other guests