The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-02-07
AN EGYPTIAN
RECIPE
By M. QUAD
Copyright, 1912. by Associated Lit
erary Press.
By M. QUAD

III erary Press.
If Farmer John Stone hadn't been a
widower, if he hadn't been bald
headed, whiskerless man. if he hadn
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 it. Mary?"
You are baldheaded and have no
whiskers.'
But love you"
THAT can't make up for it. | repeat
that you are q good man, but when
think that / would have to sit here
evening after evening and stare al
your shiny poll it IL too much"
IL thought IL q man loved"-
But there are the whiskers or the
lack OF them. Ne man can look digni
fed without 'sm. Your character is all
that q woman could ask for. but where
is the hair? 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 tin ped
dler came along and invited him to
open his heart. He did SO.
"Gay, JOAN, 1t was mean Of the wild
ow." said the peddler when he had
listened to ali.
"Yes, kinder"
"Kinder? Why, man. she has wreck
ed your life"
"Has she%
"You want 10 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"
"Well, I'm feeling that way. She
can go to Texas
Bully for you. Now. then, you know
that We peddleFs take all kinds or
things in trade. The other day raked
In an Egyptian mummy for 81 worth
Of milk pans. You knew what mum
my is. don't youY'
"some one that's been dead thSu-
sand years"
Exactly. When ripped him spen
I found this paper
by George" gasped john.
"It IN writ in Egyptian. but l can
read it right of. It's a recipe for max
ing hair grow on bald heads"
"You don't say"
"And for forcing whiskers to grew
On the smoothest face. 1t says that
one months use Of 1t will grow side
whiskoS on boy Of ten"
"You can't mean it"
"You can have the preparation put
up at a drug store ana begin to use it.
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 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 yoa can
bring the preacher as soon as yen
please, but you wave her aside"
"And whatY'
"And you wave her aside and go
along TO the Wilder Stevens and pre-
pose marriage to her and hustle things
along She dotes on curly hair and
chin whiskeBs, and will say yes at
once"
"By George, but it will be great"
at will for sure
And you'll do this cut Of the COED
ness Of your hearth
"PH do it fer enc haif 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 humanely possible fer
baldheaded, whiskerless man to hold
out. The formula was copied off for
him, and he deposited it in safe place
until he could spare day to go to the
village. mat Udy @uSNcC Cdlle. ne
was killed by accident in his own field.
Then came an interval of seven years
during which time nothing was said In
his late community about baldheaded
men. One day stranger appeared
who had heard from the pedder 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 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 adver.
Using. The campaign was brief. but
vigorous.
All those who got the recipes were
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