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OeawoUa Ulvla Tar«.4 IMi Prttlf ■Ie«4«e aad Whli.-k.lr 4 Mail Tr.Mf.nnd late D«4h(Vlralnt* FaWipiia* )Mono Lake oonmtutoa one of the Xreateet natural drpttita of hair dye in Uib known world. A white haired old , lloilia man who went down to the lake f thia .uinmar wu *i plcared with the : bathing to be had there, that he went to for a awim regularly every evening after 1 finiahln# hia day a work. Ho waa down 1 at the lake two woeka, and whan bo got 1 back to Hod.n hia frienda hantly knew• him. Ha loft Hodie a white hairrd old man. and ho came hack a golden blonde ', and apparently a man of only middle age( All who bathe ia tho watera of that lake become bloodr., and if the bathing ia pereiated in for any longth of time, the get to ho red hooded. A man laet .prin* rrotad the Leeenibg ranolt on the■ north aid* of the lake. He hua three •trapping daughter*. Aa BOoa aa the water became warm enough, the girla daily w#nt bathing in tho lake, taking, for their mermaid gambol, a time when I the men folka wore all out on the ranch at work. When they began tak-iog their dipa in the lake, the girla were brown-haired, bat they eoon fouod them-eelree becoming blondea. Thia eo delighted them that they began bathing twice a day, aad between timea waahed tholr hearli in water from tho lake.The old man had noticed the gradiu] change in the color of tho hair of hi.‘ daughter., and waa much aalom.hed 1 thereat, bet he had hia aaapiciona and •aid nothing. He kept quiet till the . hair of the girla became a firry rad, and then he want after the old woman about it. When bo got eo bad that he talked• about killing a red-beaded man who hod• once been hia neighbor over in Califor-. eia, hie old woman told him it waa only t the water of the lake—that the traui-■ formation waa earned by the girl. bath.' ing in tho lake.» The old man Mid it might be, but hr• waa not aaliafiad. He ordored lha old i My to bathe regularly every day with I the girla, aaying that if ahe became red-• beaded ha would think there waa boric-I thing in it Soon the hair of the old » woman wu m red at that of her daoghr ten. The old man .till thought there . waa aome trick almnt the boaioeia, ao hrI tried lire Oath. bimaelf. Now the old man. the nld wnm.m and ell band, are a family of golden bloodra.II ---
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The Pioche Weekly Record
Pioche, Nevada, US
Sat, Aug 11, 1888
Page 3
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Dean T.
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