Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1878 — Love for the Beautiful. [ARTICLE]

Love for the Beautiful.

A woman went into a barber-shop on C street some weeks ago and wanted to know how much it would cost to dye a man’s hair and mustache. The price was named, and she then asked the barber to get his dye and follow her. “Why can’t the man come here?” asked the barber. “ He’s dead,” replied the woman, “ and the last thing he said when he Avas passing away was: ‘ Sally, fix me up pretty for the funeral.’ His hair curled beautifullv, but was a little gray. It won’t look well to see a woman crying round a coffin with an old gray-bearded man in it. So I want him fixed up a little. He was always a beauty Avlien he had his hair dyed. I know I’d want mine fixed that Avay if I was gray and dead.” The barber dyed the dead man’s hair in the highest style of the ail, and th e Avidow remarked, when it was all o\ r er, that “He was the loveliest corpse ever buried on the Comstock.” —1 irginia (Nev.) Chronicle.