The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1912-12-28
AN EGYPTIAN
RECIPE
BY M QUAD
Copyright. 1912. by Associated Lit
erary Press.
BY NJ. QUAD

evening after evening and stare at
your shiny poll it is too much"
IL thought IL a man loved
But there are the whiskers or the
lack of them. No man can look digni-
fed without 'em. Your character is all
that woman could ask for. but where
is the hairi Where the whiskers?'
John Stone turned away in chagrin
and despair, and there was no sleep
for him for the next three nights. He
was still in the dumps when a tin ped
dler came along and invited him 10
open his heart. He did 50.
Say, John, it was mean of the wild
ow," said the peddler when he had
listened to all
Yes kinder"
kinder? Why, man, she has wreck
ed your life"
HAS she?"
You want to turn around and wreck
the widow"
But how can do it," asked John.
First Of all, get mad at her. Say
to yourself that you don't care durn
for her"
"Wen, I'm feeling that way. She
can go to Texas
Bully for you! Now. then, you know
things in trade. The other day / raked
in an Egyptian mummy for 81 worth
of milk pans. You know what mum
my is, don't your"
"Some one that's been dead a thou
sand years"
Exactly. When 1 ripped him open
found this paper"
by George gasped John.
cit is writ in Egyptian. but can
read it right off. It's recipe for max
ing hair grow on bald heads"
you don't say"
"And for forcing whiskers to grow
on the smoothest face. 1t says that
one months use OF it will grow side
whiskers on boy of ten."'
You can't mean it"
"You can have the preparation put
up at a drug store and begin to use it.
and in a month what happens? Why.
you have a luxuriant crop Of curly
hair on your bald head and chin whisk-
ers that fall down to your waist and
are blown to port and starbOard by the
breezes. You can walk up and down
the road in front of the widows house
From the window she sees you and
knows she has made the mistake of her
life. She calls to you TO admit that
she was in the wrong and that you can
bring the preacher as soon as you
please, but you wave her aside"
And what?"
And you wave her aside and go
along to the Wilder Stevens and pro
pose marriage to her and hustle things
along She dotes on curly hair and
chin whiskers, and will say yes at
once"
by George, but it will be great9
ut will for sure"
And you'll do this out Of the good
ness Of your hearth"
"TH do it for one-half goodness and
! the other half cash The cash half is
S25. Those chin whiskers alone are
worth 500 to any living man"
No farmer is ready to pay out money
| unless he can see a return for it
Farmer Stone asked for week to con
slider the matter and then closed the
deal 1t wasn't humaneIy possible for
| a baldheaded, whiskerless man TO hold
| out. The formula was copied of for
| him, and he deposited it in safe place
until he could spare a day to go to the
| village. That day never came. He
was killed by accident In his own field.
Int of
| during which time nothing was said in
| his late community about baldheaded
men. One day a stranger appeared
who had heard from the peddler that
| John Stone had the Egyptian recipe.
| and he offered So for it. One Of the
widower's heirs found it in an old
trunk and took the money.
The next heard of the recipe was by
/ advertisement A coffee and tea house.
! instead of giving out trading stamps.
| advertised to grow hair and whiSkers
/ for the buyer Of every pound of tea or
/ coffee.
/ They sent a lot of wagons through
/ the country to herald the news by
/ word of mouth, and the highways were
/ plastered with posters, and the weekly
/ papers reaped whole pages of adyer-
/ Using, The campaign was brief. but
/ vigorous.
/ All those who got the recipes ~ere
/ directed to a certain druggist to have
them filed. The druggist was a nus
tier and sent the stuff away by the
I scores and hundreds of bottles and
/ made 400 per cent profits. At tha and
Of ten or twelve weeks there were 500
baldheads in one county alone, and the
number Of burned and blistered chins
and cheeks was a full thousand.
The headstone marking Eohn Stones
grave was a rather stngy affair. Aft.
er the exposure 1t was replaced by a
better one, and the obituary was add.