The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1913-03-06
N EGYPTIAN
RECIPE
BY M. QUAD
Copyright, 1912. By Associated Lit
eTdry Press.

been in love with the Widow Davis. |
things might have been different |
When he told her that he loved her her
reply was:
John, you are good man, but
"But what is 1t, Mary?"
"You are baldheaded and have
whiskers."
But ] love you"
THAT can't make up for 1t. repeat
that you are a good man. but when
think that | would have to sit here
evening after evening and stare al
your shiny poll it is too much
Il thought If a man loved
"But there are the whiskers or the
lack of them. No man can look dlGni'
fed without EN-. Your character Is all
that n woman could ask for, but where
is the hair? Where the whiskers:
John Stone turned away in chaGrih
and despair. and there was u" Steep
for him for the next three nights. lie
was still in the dumps when tin ped
dler came along and Invited hlh 10
open his heart. He did 50.
Say, John, It was mean OF the via
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
10 yourself that you don't care durh
for her" ,
well, I'm feeling that way sue
can 20 to Texas!
Bully for you! Now, then. you know
that we pedders take all KINDS oi
things in trade. The other day rakeu
in an Egyptian mummy for 81 worth
of milk mans. You know what num-
my is, don't your
"Some one that's been dead thou-
sand years"
exactly. When I ripped him open
/ found this paper"
"By GEORGE gasped John.
at is writ in Egyptian, but ! can
read IL right off. It's recipe for max
ing hair grow on bald beads
"You don't say"
"And for forcing whiskers to grow
on the smoothest face. 1t says that
one months use of 1t will grow side
whiskers on boy Of ten"
"You can't mean II"
"You can have the preparation put
nm at q drug store and begin to use II.
and in a month what happens? why.
You have luxuriant crop OF curly
hair on your bald head and chin whisk-
ers that fall down to your waist ana
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 whatT
"And you wave her aside and &c
along to the Wilder Stevens and pro
pose marriage to her and hustle things
along. She dotes on curly hair anc
chin whiskers, and will say yes a
once"
"By George, but 1t will be great|
"It will for sure"
"And you'll do this out Of the good
ness of your hearth
"Pn do it for one-half goodness ant
the other half cash. The cash half
$25. Those chin whiskers alone ar
worth 500 to any living man."
No farmer is ready to pay out none.
unless he can see a return for II
Farmer Stone asked for week to cor
slider the matter and then closed tn
deal 1t wasn't humanely possible 70
baldheaded, whiskerless man to hol
out The formula was copied of 70
him. and he deposited 1t In safe plac
until he could spare day to go to tn
village. That day never came. II
was killed by accident in his own ielC
Then came an interval Of seven year
during which time nothing was said
his late community about baldheade
men. One day a stranger appeare
who had heard from the peddler this
John Stone had the Egyptian recip
and he offered S. for 1t. One of til
widower's heirs found 1t In an oil
trunk and took the money.
The next heard Of the recipe was b
advertisement A coffee and tea hous
instead Of giving out trading stamp
advertised to grow hair and whiske
for the buyer OF every pound OF tea
coffee.
They sent a lot OF wagons throul
the country 10 herald the news
word of mouth, and the highways we
plastered with posters, and the week
papers reaped whole pages of adve
Using. The campaign was brief. b
vigorous.
All those who got the recipes we
directed 10 certain druggist TO Ia
them filed. The druggist was q BIZ
tier and sent the stuff away by {
scores and hundreds of bottles a.
made 400 per cent profits at the e.
u OF ten or twelve weeks there were G
baldheads in one county alone, and {
number Of burned and bl.,tered chi
and cheeks was a full thousand.
The headstone marking John Ston
grave was rather stingy affair. A
er the exposure IL was renIacad nv