The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-09

| beauty parlor in tent this sizel
 Don't fall over those pack saddles Pete insists Mir. Wilson's goin' to pick
 this camp for the railroad terminal an he's brought up every second hand outfit he seen, an it's just nerve wrackin' to give facial massage wrin kle treatment in a joint where pa tients are liable to break leg trippin' on a gasoline engine or a dog harness-an' on windows, so I can't get on my professional expression
 till a womans almost insidel
 Sit down, dear-Ill give the beans | the once over, an see what that drat- ted breads doin'-my grief, in Fair | banks I never turned out sour bread, but it's so rain an damp here on the coast, person-yes, dear, every word in that pamphlets true! The curl | stays in three months, an you can dance yourself sick without it per siprrin' out-looka my hair ain't that wave grand!
 l done a lady's hair in Knik-an' we had a time gettin' therel The ice wasn't all out of Turnagain Arm, an Pete run the engine an steered an watched the baby, with me layin' flat on top the pilot house, with the searchlight on the channel, an the night that dark-well hers was a drabby blonde, an when she took my curl treatment, she was immediately engaged to minin' expert from Helena, an she Jagged him for Bill Ames. discoverer of the Here's Hopin' mine, an before that no man would give her a pleasant look.
 Oh, yourl take it fne-imagine your whole head one fluffy delicious mass of curls! My Heavens, if ladies would only eat stewed fruit for breakfast, an drink two quarts Of water day, an buy the colors they like instead of what they think they ought to get, an keep their hair curled alway-this won't hurt a mite, just hold it quite still, dear. Don't it give you a feelin' of exhaltation, Just thinkin' of how you can get up on look like sumpin' instead of-Pete? Is that you? Put it down outside then, got patient in herel
 (He's bought another old second hand tent an says don't sell it for less'n fifty bucks. Why they're only seven, new, an who does he expect'n payO Oh, it has to be a weenchy bit sticky at first, dear, but that wears off, an remmeber outa the twelve ladies in camp you're the first to take Keep-Curl, an yunno yourself people revere a leader!
 It's three bottles for ten-thank you, honey! You look sweet, now. Goo'bye.
 Gee, my heart is beatin' terrible, an I bet l was yellin' steamboat" in my sleep last night. Why can't that ship get in with the newspapers, so we'd see if the Presidents settled it? If he'd talk to me or any other sour dough, he wouldn't need to study any maps for a route, besides what do them people outside savvy about AlaskaO
 Pete. She blew; come on in. Say, don't buy any more junk! The more I reflect, see palmer we made a mis- take in mushin' here-leavin' a gar den in Fairbanks that raised more strawberries an celery an lettuce than any the rest, an gettin' three bucks a dozen for home grown eggs, an now we're kitin' round tryin' to guess the terminal! But it's what a woman gets for marvin a prospector .-Wilson1l choose one of the others, just cause we came here. Yes, this is the natural route to the interior, but when'd they ever do anything right for Alaska, 'cept sign the bill? Seward people are hollerin how the gov'ment should take over the Alaska Northern, an run it through-sure, everybody in town owns stock in 1t! An Chitina says spur from there to the Matanuska's the dope, an Valdez claims the old survey from there to the inside shows less grade than any of 'em, an mob's pullin' for Portage Bay! Where you goin
 We'll if you sight the boat tell me quick!
 Here's a woman-good day, step right in don't hit yourself on that stove. MT. Binns simply insists on pilin' this tent up with-indeed I have, dear, an they're direct from New York, too-this bright green ones perfectly darling, and go lovely with black eyes-just slip it on. Why,