Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1864-12-07
The FoIlies and Foibles Of Paris-How Black
Hair is Made Golden.

The FOnies and Foibles Of Paris-How Black
Hair is Made Golden.
MAN never was guilty Of as many follies as
he is at this time There is not EAST
young man here-and we know we are all
'fast"-who has not his hair-dresser to go
with him everywhere. All the huutsmen
who have quilted Paris to 81 Foot the birds dur
ling the ornithoIogical st. Bartholomew, which
custom sanctions this month, have carried
their ihair-dressers with them Go into a
fashionable barbeF's shop and have your
beard shaved, Figaro will ask you at the end
Of the operation: "Shal I make your face,
sir?" Make means paint-a little touch Of
rOnge on your cheek to heighthen it with
health's glow. e rr s-
We shall see men wearing as many rings
as loretts yet; already every body has his
signet-ring; diamond shirt buttons are on ey-
cry wristband. If you look attentiyely, two
or three costly rings may be detected among
the "charms" on our. watoh-chains.- We
wear wells when we return from races. Some
bold fellows have ventured on parasols and
fans. The other sex are not one whit behind
US. The etruscan earrings they wear are
like Alexandra Dumas novels-they have no
end. Every woman makes her point ofhon-
or-to wear at least three new dresses a day.
There was little actress from the Fulies
Dramstiques, who went down to Trouville;
and she displayed one hundred new dresses
in the ten days she was there. A hundred
dresses in ten daysl I see yon stare your un-
sophicated eyes ImpossibIel Wait mo-
ment Hold up your fingers. Count. She
wore one dress in the morning, when she
went to take her ante-breakfast airing. One,
isn't it2 She wore another to breakfast
Two, eh ? Another to after-breakfast walk.
Three, eh? Another to the bath Four that
mahes ? Another to the post-lustration walk
Hold up your thumb for Eve Another to
luncheon. Give. US your little finger and call
it six. Another for the walk after luncheon
Amt that seven? Another for horseback ex-
ercise before dinner Sing out eight. An
other for dinner. Pray isn'tthat nine ? An
other for the ball. Give US your thumb and
say tens and look you! never again pretend
to fathom lady's bandbox and trunk. "But
she did nothing but dressI" Silence, sir =
that is none of your business. Beside, isn't
it better woman's whole time should be TAX
en- up by dress than by gossipping, or getting
her husband into hot water2
Would that dressing and undressing were
the only follies of our womeni The mode
now is for them to initiate the color of the
Empress hair. We laugh at the courtiers
who had operations for imaginary 6stulas per-
formed because Louis XIV was so afflicted,
and here all the women are initiating the En-
press Spanish walk and color hair Idon't
wonder that 50 many people are daily carried
off to the mad-house--the wonder is that
some nonStre commission de hsaaatico inguiren-
do be not sued out against US all, and result
in all US being sent to Charenton--where the
Paris Bedlam is situate. Would you know
the process by which jet-black hair is trans
formed into golden hair2 For our fair danes
of Court and all our lorettes (they rather be-
gan it) sacrifice their beautiful black hair as
red head with you sacrifices his carrot
You wish to hear how the metamorphose is
obtained2 At the appointed hour the candi-
date tor golden honors enters the dressing
room, attired in a long wlite dressing-gown
Her hair floats loosely over her shoulders, un-
secured by comb or pin. The 'artist" is
there He begins by seeing that the hair is
thoroughly separated; then be, by degrees,
pours over the head a phial Of some water"
(Which probably holds in solution corrosive
sublmate, or some equally deadly poison, n
and he takes hair by hair and saturates it with
the water, from one end to the other. This
takes two hours. He allows fifteen minutes
to elapse; and then he soaks the whole hair
in ice-water; next, he pours another phial of /
his "water" upon the hair and kneads the
hair with his hands. Another respite OF
quarter of an hosr is given, which is allowed
by soaking the head in ice water, which is
succeeded by phial OF "water" These pro
cesses take two hours and fifteen minutes
more, The 'artis" then takes two tailors
"gooses, heated to high degree oftemper-
ature. The chambermaid holds the end of
her mistress's hair, and the 'artistr moves
backward and forward the "gooses' within
few inches OF the hair until the hair becomes
red. This ends the operation. which has last /
ed FIVE hours, and leaves the lady with red
hair, an intolerable headache, tangled nerves,
and eighty dollars less in pocket say
eighty donars-not eighty francs but four
hundred francs. Felix, the hair-dresser, who
invented this operation, is making more mon
ey than ever, and before he resorted to this
method he was literally coming money. So
we got The city is not only changing its ap-
pearance and even its names, but the women
themselves are undergoing metsmorphose.-
You quit your brunette in the Rue de Cluny
in an old fashioned house-be absent few
months-yOu find her living On the same