Evening journal., 1912-02-28
A RECIPE FOR
HAIR DYE
BY NJ QUAD
copyr,sht iaiL by Associated IIs-
csary FresS.

into the village Of Dover.
Mr.. jackson, being stranger to the
town. had been advised to call on Dea-
con weatherhy and get the names OF
people who might be Induced to pur-
chase
Deacon Weatherby owned the saw.
mill the gristmin and the mildam.
had mortgage ON the Methodist
church edifice and was accounted the
big man Of the town. He was man
Of sixty and a 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 vener.
able. but was a mighty close man on
business deal.
When the sewing machine man came
to Interview the deacon a happy
thought entered his head II the ven.
erable widower would do him a favor
he would return 1t. He had a recipe
for hair dye said TO be after an Egyp-
tian formula. He had never made
personal use of the dye, being a red
headed man and loving the color, bue
he had every reason TO believe that It
was world beater II restored the
hair to the color It was when the
grower was only twenty years old.
1t rendered 1t soft and glossy. It de-
fed detection. BY the use OF this dye
man or woman OF sixty could claim
to be only forty and no one would call
either a liar. The deacon after get
ting that long hair and those venerable
whiskers colored needn't give his age.
The people would guess It at forty
one and add that he had not reached
his prime yet
Two days later behold a gay old boy,
hair and whiskers glossy blackl
There were about ten other old men In
> the place with whiskers more or less
venerable and one sfter another as
they met the deacon they contemptu-
ously exclaimed:
Huh. Got your old hair and whisk-
ers dyed, ehY''
For 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 a
dollar in cash for that recipe. Some
tried to beat him down to 20 cents,
but 1t was no use. It was either come
down with a 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 a bottle Of that dye
There were grandmas who cried for Il
There were men and women with hail
of doubtful color, and there was the
usual proportion OF redheads who sigh
ed for change. Thus Deacon Wealth
erby was kept busy writing on copies
and taking In dollar bills.
The Methodist minister was a maj
OF fifty, with gray side whiskers. H'
had no vanity about him. 1t hurt hi
feelings to stand in his pulpit and lool
around him on so much hair dye, and
one day he called on Deacon Weatherby
for the purpose Of protesting. He die
protest. He said It was bit OF van
ity that must result in harm.
"well, dunno" replied the deacon
'I can't say that feel any more skit
tish than did before used the dye
"But why change the colorg'
"There amt no use in lookin' as olG
as the hills"
"Then it's deception, and deception
IS an offense."
IT'S only kinder that way, parson,
said the deacon. as he hitched arounC
in his chair. 'T wouldn't lie about m!
age If you was to ask the fggers, bu
] don't keer to have folks think wa
waitin' around here when Columbu
arrived. I was lookin' at your whis
kers all through meetin' last Sunday"
"You werer What's wrong witt
my whiskersT
Il know you to be about ffty year
old, but them whisl0ers make you iool
sixty-five."
"You don't sayV'
Fact, parson. When meeting wal
out heard old Mrs. Parsloe saying t
her husband that we needed younge
man in the pulpit, all on account o
them gray whiskers, you see. II the.
was black you'd look to be thirty-fiv'
or thirty-eight.
"Huml You think so, 90 your
"Sartin sure. I'll let you have a pin
Of It free of cost If you'll use It."
81 see the point now, though It wa
obscure at first I-think I will 9
least take 1t home"
And the next sunday-behoidl Frol
40 ,,,l,,if 20 fha doors NJ that churc
there wasn't gray hair or whiske
Hair dye had captured the town. Loo
where you would there was a shin
and a glisten.
But we can't always keep a goo
thing after we get It 1t came th
date OF the annual church picnic.
was held on the banks Of lake. wit
the nearest shelter two miles ava,
All but a scant dozen of the villageI
turned out It promised to be fir
day; but, alas, a soaking old rain can
on and wet everyday 10 the skin,
did sure. 1t wet up the hair dye, an
the dye poured with the rain. 1t "a
from heads and from whiskers. and
blackened faces and clothing and pr
duced frumps and frights, and a wee
later venerable whisksrs and grs
heads were 20 be seen again, and the
has been no experimenting since. De
con Weatherby has the recipe la
away. but 1t VIII never be called Z
again.