Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-10-06
! RECIPE FOR
! HAIR DYE
D., M QUAD
By M. QUAD
,,,t 1911, by Associated Lit
Ca'' erary Press.

r.orrig0ti '"~~' IA
wv erary IresS. III
:, m certain Monday after
,hot a Mr.. Jackson. who was
.,,ps sewing machine agent, drove
.tae village of Dover.
l. Jackson, being a stranger to the
had been advised to call on Dea-
Teatherby and get the names of
!. ubo might be induced to pur.
s.o,n Weatherby owned the saw
!, tho grstmill and the milldam.
mortgage on the Methodist
~ editice and was accounted the
nan of the town. He was a man
sa,tv and widower. but he had no
,,cbts of marrying again. The
..oo looked venerable. His chin
s,tprs were twenty inches long. and
hair reached his shoulders. Both
4 white. Yes, deacon looked vener-
\. Init was mighty close man ON
nsness deal.
qNen the sewing machine man came
ipteryiew the deacon happy
srebt entered his head. If the ven.
abIe widower would do him favor
Vould return it. He had recipe
hair dye said to be after an Egyp.
n formula. He had never made
,soual use of the dye. being u red
Mad man and loving the color. but
had every reason to believe that it
\, q world beaten. 1t restored the
M to the color 1t was when the
sTer was only twenty years old.
rendered it soft and glossy. 1t de-
N detection. By the use of this dye
nan or woman Of sixty could claim
be only forty and no one would cali
aher q liar. The deacon after get
hg that long hair and those venerable
rhbkers colored needn't give his age.
IM people would guess it at forty
Zoe and add that he had not reached
Id prime yet.
Two days later behold a gay old boy,
hi and whiskers glossy black!
there were about ten other old men In
t ne place with whiskers more or less
merable, and one after another as
p hey met the deacon they contemptu.
asIy exclaimed:
Huh! Got your old hair and whisk-
|sB dyed. eh?''
For week or so Deacon Weatherby
|rs made fun of and called an old
|hl Then the other old men dropped
u one after another and paid him a
DOLLAR In cash for that recipe. Some
|tied to beat him down to rs cents,
but 1t was no use. 1t was either come
Gown with a dollar or keep the same
% color OF hair and whiskers. Then
sort of rush set in. Every woman
htown who had five gray hairs In her
head wanted q bottle Of that dye.
mere were grandmas who cried for it.
There were men and women with hair
doubtful color. and there was the
usual proportion of redheads who sigh.
q for change. Thus Deacon Wealth
SDy was kept busy writing of copies
Id taking in dollar bills.
The Methodist minister was a man
nfty, with gray side whiskers. He
No no vanity about him. 1t hurt his
A'lnss to stand in his pulpit and look
nOand hlm on so much hair dye. and
oe Gay he called on Deacon Weatherby
OF Inc purpose of protesting. He did
tOest He said it was a bit of van.
Y mat must result in harm.
wei. dunno" replied the deacon.
Vaa say that / feel any more skit
~ 'nan | did before | used the dye"
but why change the color?"
inefe amt no use in lookin' as old
The hills
lnen it's deception. and deception
an offense."
us only kinder that way, parson."
~ Tue deacon, as he hltched around
us chair. Il wouldn't lie about my
;, you was to ask the figgers, but
.a keer to have folks think ! was
sun around here when Columbus
u l was loOkin' at your whis-
y. AZ I'LL through meetin' last Sunday"
-Oa were" What's wrong with
whiskers?"
Anow You to be about fifty years
! out them whiskers make you look
IH'fye."
!, lou don't sayw
raet' parson. When meeting was
heard old Mrs. Parsloe saying to
;. husband that we needed a younger
!. ID The pulpit. all ON account of
!" gray whiskers. you see. IL they
! olack You'd look to be thirty-five
'hlrty eight.
rum You think so. do your
:. 4'in sure. III let you have a pint
/, iee OF cost If you'll use It,"
oee the point now. though it was
..e ut first. Think l will at |
. take it home"
'ne next Sunday-behold! From
:. pD'p't TO the doors of that church
Is wasn't a gray hair or whisker.
we mad captured the town. Look
you would there was a shine
!" we can't always keep a good
a'er we get It. 1t came the
/, - the annual church picnic. 1t
neia on the banks of a lake. with