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Show CAR TO MATCH HIS WIFE'S HAIR H - B ' "There are lots of funny things c about any business, I suppose," re- B " marked Colonel Bradburv of a motor H car company. "I know we have some B queer customers to deal with now B and then. Sometimes it is almost Im- H ' possible to keep a straight face while H talking to them. The questions they H ask about a car would keep a joke H Vr book supplied for a year Then the Kii ; i queer demands they make, every fel- K . low has some especial thing he de- B f sires. 1 "I remember, though, an experience I with a customer they had back east It was told to me by Harry Stratton.; This is about the way he told It: " 'A little, dark, Latin-appearing man with fierce mustachios, came into in-to our show room and wanted to look at a four-passenger car. We showed him the toy tonneau. A demonstrates demonstra-tes t. 1 tlon brought about an Immediate sale. H h but Juan Peixotto Asunsulo, for that M A; was the customer's name. Insisted up- H'j 'l on a peculiar finish for the car. It 1 u I must match bis wife's hair B'j "'This was somewhat of a poser H t '1 to me, and I tried to talk him out of m , Q it, but nothing doing He said his U ' wife had the most beautiful golden t brown hair in the world, and went Hl ', I Into ecstacles about it, talking with TT I hands, eyes and mouth as only a H ft ' ' Spaniard can. Finally, seeing that it n was Impossible to get that idea out of Bg his head, I said: Nh -'"All right, Mr. Asunsulo. it will ' ' be a mighty difficult thing to match ft I such wonderful hair as Senora Asun- H sulo has, but I think wo can do it if ff j you will give me a lock of her hair." J V y, '"I thought I had him stalled there, i B:- i hut not on your life. He fished a J K ' h gold locket out of his pocket, opened K 0 it, and tbero was a lock of his wife's, H I hair all right not bad hair at that. I m' Jf saw he had me, so I took the hair, af- Ht M ter he had exacted the most solemn H promise to preserve It carefully and HLj; return it unharmed. Hf 1 " 'Then I went over our book of 'J ' colors and fortunately was able to Bf find almost an exact match for it Hf After that, of course, it was an easy Hj , i matter to have the order put through, B ll and when Mr. Asunsulo came into our R M show room again about two weeks HLV ' later and saw the toy tonneau ready u jj ' fr shipment to Brazil, where he lived, Hf2 e was e happiest Spaniard I ever |