Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1911-09-20
A RECIPE FOR
HAIR DYE
BY M. QUAD
Copyright. 1911. by Associated Lit
erary Press.

town, had been advised to call ON Dea-
con Weatherby aud get the names Of
! people who might be induced to pur-
chase.
Deacon Weatherby owned the saw
mill. the gristmill and the milldam.
had n mortgage on the Methodist
church editice and was accounted the
big man OF the town. He was a man
of sixty and widOwer. but he had no
thoughts of marrying again. The
deacon looked venerable His chin
whiskers were twenty inches long. and
his hair reached his shoulders Both
were white. Yes. deacon looked veneer
able. but was n mighty close man on
4 business deal.
When the sewing machine man came
to interview the deacon happy
thought entered his head. If the ven
cradle widower would do him n favor
he would return It, He had n recipe
for hair dye said TO be after an Ecyp-
uan formula. He had never made
personal use Of the dye. being n red
headed man and loving the color. but
NJ had every rea son TO believe that il
was world beaten. 1t restored the
hair to the color It was when the
grower was only twenty years old
1t rendered 1t soft and glossy. 1t de-
lied detection. BY the use Of this dive
man or woman Of sixty could claim
TO be only forty and no one would call
either liar. The deacon after get
ting that long hair and those venerable
=
The people would guess It ut forty
one and add that he had not reached
his prime yet
Two days later behold a gay old boy.
hair and whiskers glossy blacki
There We're about ten other old men i'm
the place with whiskers more or less
venerable, and one after another as
they met the deacon they contemDtu-
Ously exclaimed:
Huh, Got your old hair and whisk-
ers dyed. ehf'
For Il week or so Deacon Weatherby
was made fun OF and called an old
fool Then the other old men dropped
In one after another and paid him n
dollar In cash for that recipe. Some
tried 10 beat him down TO 40 cents.
but IL was no use. Ii was either come
down with II dollar or keep the same
old color of hair and whiskers. Then
sort OF rush set in. Every woman
In town who had five gray hairs in her
head wanted n bottle OF that dye.
There were grandmas who cried for IL.
There were men and women with hair
or doubtful color. and there was the
usual proportion of redheads who sigh
ed for change. Thus Deacon Wealth
erby WAS kert busy writing OFF copies
and taking IN dollar bills.
The Methodist minister was a man
OF fifty. with gray side whiSkers He
had no vanity about him. 1t hurt his
feelings to stand in his pulpit and look
around him Oh so much hair dye. and
one day he called on Deacon Weatherby
for the purpose of protesting. He did
protest. He said it was Il bit Of van
ity that must result in harm
"Well. | dunno" replied the deacon
II can't say that ] feel any more skit-
fish than | did before used the dye"
But why change the color?"
There amt no use In lookln' as old
as the hills"
''Then it's deception, and deception
Is an offense"
ITS only kinder that way, parson,"
said the deacon. as he hitched around
In his chair Il wouldn't lie about my
age If you was to ask the fggers. but
i don't keer TO have folks think | was
waitin' around here when Columbus
arrived. was lookin' Mt your whis-
kers all through meetin' last Sunday"
my whisk ers?"
Il know you to be about fifty years
old, but them whiskers make you look
sixty five"
You don't sayi"
"Fact, parson. When meeting was
out i heard old Mrs. Parsloe saying to
her husband that we needed q younger
man in the pulpit, all on account of
them gray whskers. you see. If they
was black you'd look to be thirty-five
or thirty eight. "
Hum! You think so. do your
"Sartin sure I'll let you have q pint
of 1t free Of cost If you'll use it."
81 see the point now. though it was
obscure at first think / will at
least take 1t home"
And the next Sunday-behold! From
the pulpit to the doors of that church
there wasn't gray hair or whisker.
Hair dye had captured the town. Look
where you would there was shine
and a gllsten.
But we can't always keep a good
thing after we get II. It came the
date OF the annual church picnic. 1t
was held on the banks Of a lake, with