The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-25
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fast" young man hcrc-and you know
we are oil " fast who has. not his hair.
dresser to go with him everywhere. All
the huntsmen who have Quilted Paris to
shoot the birds during the ornithological
| st. bartholomew, which custom sane
tons during this month, have canied
their hair-dresser with them Go into
fashionable BARRIERS shop and have your
beard shaved, Figaro will ask you at the
end of the operation, "Shall make yonr
face, sr?' Make means paint-a little
touch of rouge.on your check TO heighten
it with health's glow.
We shall see men wearing as MANY
rings as rosettes yet. Already cyery-
body has signct-rings; diamond shirt
buttons arc on every wristband. If you
look attcntively, two or three costly
rings may be detected among the charms
on our watch chains. We wear wells
when We return from races. Some bold
fellows have vcntured on parasols and
fans. The other sex are not one whit
behind us. The ctruscan earrings they
wear arc like Alexander Dumas novels.
they have NO end. Every woman makes
her point of honor to wear at least three
new dresses day. There was a little
actress from the Follies Dramatiquc, who
went down to Trouvillc, and She dis.
played one hundred new dresses in the
ten days she was there. A hundred
dresses in ten days! l see you stare
your unsophisticatcd eyes. Impossi-
bic! Wait moment. Hcll up
your fingers. Count. She wore one
dress in the morning, when she went to
take her ante-breakiast airing One, isn't
it? She wore another to breakfast. Two
Ell? Another to after breakfast walk
Three, eh? Another to the bath. Four
that makes? Another to the post lustra-
ton walk. Hold up your thumb for five.
Another to luncheon. Give us your little
finger, and call it six Another for the
walk after luncheon. Amt that seven ,
Another for horseback exercise before
dinner. Sing out eight. Another for
dinner. Pray, isn't that nine? Another
for the ball. Give us your thumb and
say ten; and look you, never again pre-
tend to fathom a lady's handbook amt
trunk. But she did nothing but dress.
Silence, sir! That is none of your but
siness. Besides. isn'tit better womans
whole time should be taken up by her
dress than by gossiping, or getting her
husband into hot water?
Would that dressing and undressing
were the only follics of our women. The
node now is for them to initiate the color
If the Emress's hair. We laugh at the
who had operations for iuasi.
lary iistulas performed because LOUIS
NV. was so afflicted, and here all the
yemen are initiating the Empress's
spanish walk and color of her hair.
10 not wonder that so many people are
lrried to the mad house-the wonder is
at some naOnstrc commission de lunuticv
nqMtrendo be not sued out against us all,
nd result in all Of US being sent to Cha.
enton, where the Paris Bcdiam is stu.
ted. Would you know the process by
'hich Jet black hair is transformed into
olden hair : for our fair danes of court
nd all cur lorettes (thcy rather began
J sacrifice their beautiful hair as freely
$ a red head with you sacrifices his ear
Ut. You wish to hear how the meta
lorphosis is obtained At the ap.
ointed hour, the candidate for golden
oaors enters the dressing room, at
red in u long white dressing-gown.
er hair floats loosely over her Shout
ers. unsecured by comb or bin
he artist" is there He begins 10y
icing that the hair is thoroughly sepa.
ted; then he, by degrees, pours over
he head vial Of some water (which
:obably holds in solution corrosive SUI
innate, or some equally deadly poison
nd he takes hair by hair and saturate;
with water from one end to the other.
his takes two hours. lie allows fifteen
lnutes to elapse, and then.he soaks tho
hole hair In ice water; next he pouri
'Other vial of his water upon the
lir, and kneads the hair with his hands.
mother respite Of quarter of an hour is
ven, which is followed by soaking the
ad in ice water, which is succeeded by
new vial of his water" These pro.
sScS take two hours and fifteen minutes
ore.
The artist" then takes two tailo,'s
5ooses heated to high degree of
nperaturc. The chambermaid holds
ends of her mistrcss's hair, and the
'rtlst.' moves backward and forward
"gooses" within a few inches of
hair until the hair becomes red
us ends the operation, which has
ted five hours, and leaves the lady
tn red hair, an intolcrahlc head
nc, tangled nerves, and eighty dol
s less in pocket. say eighty
liars; not eighty francs, but four
ndred francs. Felix, the hair-dresser,