The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16
PARTED FROM HER TRESSES.
TRAGEDY or A MISSOURI NAID
At THE SEASMORE.
what Happened TO a Girl Who Dried Her
Hair I'm a Clothes wrIDger--Forgot 10
Wrap II Ia 2 TOwel-The Final Result
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We lent the wringer TO girl from MIS-,
sourl TO take her hair home in, explained
the young person with the dropping pom
padour who runs the women end OF the
establishment, "Being from Missouri, you
see she wanted TO Know and OF COURSE
shs round out
Inc speaker was telling her story by
TINS time to group OF young women VINO
also wanted TO know. lust like the maiden
from Missouri So while they coiled their
hair and wrung the salt water out OF their
bathing costumes they listened.
you want to dry your hair with a clothes
wringer you must first wrap towel around
1t and be sure there are no loose ends sticking
out, pursued the story-teller But the
girl from Missouri didn't know that, and
neither ana her sister. who was with her'
They'd been bathing here for several
days and drying their hair in the sun. And
SUCH hairl IL was simply be-you-t,lul!
Red and gold and glossy-you know. The
| kind the dyer cant make for any OF us.
And when they had it almost dry they'd
walk back to their hotel with it hanging
| down their backs, and for the next fifteen
| asking, confidertially:
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 nice! she said, and then turn
| ing to me she asked.
Is that here to wiring out bathing suits?
No, said 1, 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 of she went.
Il had to go TO the Office about that time
and just stopped D minute to chat with
a gentleman from B.timore--the one that
lent me his turquoise pin--when some one
we're standing.
"Of course, rushed out TO see what was
the matter. And what 90 you suppose
| it was? That girl from Missouri had taken
that be-you-ti-ful hair of hers and put it
| into the wringer plain just loose, you
| know, without any towel around to hold
it. and had got her sister to turn the crank.
'You can imagine 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
back and forth In desperate effort to
undo the mischief, and that was when
her sister began TO scream.
by that time nearly two feet Of the
girls hair was 80 tangled up in the wringer
that nobody on earth could have got it free
and we just had to cut it of about a foot
from her head
when she got up and looked In the
glass over there she just gave a gasp and
wall and then began to sob And,
Of course, you can't blame her. Who
wouldn't?
Her sister called cab and they went
back to their hotel. About an hour later
the sister came back and said she'd like