The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-03-19
,HIan0nS, PnDIcuLr And n0NRoR.


TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 10.
cHIenOns, PHDrcuLr ARD n0nRoR. |
An nnglish sdpams has wen uieh thrown
the fashionable world into commissions. He
has publishsd the fact that those ornamental
head gear monstrosities, called " waterfalls"
are nests and hot-beds of lively little Rdiculi
the names Of which cannot be mentioned
without causing society to shudder. By sub.
uniting the most stylish chignons to sufficient
heat be developed the gregarines into innu.
merahle PedtcaH. London Is in horrors.
The papers are filed with communications
from distressed individuals who found their
heads unaccountably infested with small deer,
aud have now traced them to their waterfall
origin. The sharp ears of Mrs. Grundy hear
from all sorts of fashionable establishments
chorusses Of feminine shrieks expressing all
the capabilities Of the human voice in that
direction. Ladies are the merciful allies of
each other in the dreadful work. Number
One stands as far as practicable from Number
Two, while with pair Of tongs the obnoxious
waterfall is wrenched off and thrown into the
fire. Number Two then repays in kind. At
each act of ingenation there is duet of
screams. 1t is the slaughter of the
innocents, with vengeance. The
frightful discovery has resulted
in several brain fevers, and an unconscious
bic amount of Mysteries. 1t is the Great Fire
in London over again. From every other
household the odor of the consuming
headgears is borne ont upon the air.
Confsgration of waterfalls is new
phenomenon in calorics, 1t is as
certained that large amount Of other
property, besides hair, has been destroyed in
this burning Of chignons. A large quantity
of old clothing, used in their manufacture,
has gone by the board. The sensation has
reached New York. A person Of an inquiring
turn of mind, TO whom it fell to destroy very
large and elegant waterfall, cast off BY very
elegant young lady, the other day, dissected i,
before hand, and gives me result in the
papers, There was some hair: then large
part of buffalo robe; then q considerable
worn ladys zousve jacket, and an old news.
paper inclosing pair of seedy gloves and
last weeks hose. That chap was vindictive,
and his statement isn't to be relied upon.
There never was such time. In England
every other topic is almost swallowed up.
The Reform Question has sunk into insigni6>
canoe. The public has ceased to be sgitated
over the policy of Lord Derby Government.
Tbs jaunty satire and sprightly phillipics of
D'lsrseli attracts little attention. Bread
Riots are soon forgotten, but the chignon
horror is omnipresent and omnipotent. The
London Telegraph of the 22d ult., has eigh>
teen communications on this subject in that
oneday's issue Of its paper. All these testified
that pedicuh we're in waterfalls, and had been
introduced into households by them. The
panic must run its course. 1t will rage in
this country. Waterfalls will be apt TO get
the worst of il. But it is well enough to give
both sides, and amid the onslaught on CHG
mons, TO give this statement in their defense,
by X. Hoyenden Sons, the largest dealers
in human hair in England.
To the editor Of the Daily Telegraph SIR
Having had our attention drawn to a series of
ing periodicals as to the dangers to which ladies
are liable through wearing chignons and other
false hail, we feel that you will allow u.s. az the
largest manufacturer. of human hair in this coun-
try, TO say few words upon the truth Of these
statements.
1t must not be forgotten that, In order to
develop the gregdrines, your correspondent, an
veshgator, was obliged to submit them TO
temperature Of 100 degrees Fahrenheit for six hours
or else before stove for the same time round the
l. 1r ~. - ~ -. -
human blood is found in disease TO rise to 100 de-
grees Fahrenheit, and that the accessible parts of
the body, as the mouth, ariila, &c.) are usually
between s7.7 and $50 degrees think 1t hardly
right to ask our fair friends, who may be ambi-
tious TO be investigators after your correspon-
dents style, to initiate the shaved hen for six
hours at n temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
With about forty years experience, assure
you that in our business capacity, with tons Of
this human material passing continually through
our hands, II is very, very much for
find single one POSSIBLY once in seven years. of
these common parasites than it is for the average
OF the public to find such in their private scty
And we can also assure you that when hair is
properly prepared, it is very beautiful object
free from grease and entirely clean. We challen ge
"Investigator," or any scientific man, to come to
either Of our warehouses and examine manu-
fsetured hair and 10 find any thing approaching
20 life upon 1t. We will allow him free entrance
to our entire stock, (which i. the largest in Brit
ine the article mieroscopically. One of our firm
has paid considerable attention to microscopy, and
he this day and yesterday, examined several
samples Of raw hair as imported, hair under pro-
cess Of manufacture, and also finished hair and in
his Investigations he failed to trace in the CHIT
est degree the existence of the parasite named by
M. Lindemsnn and your correspondent "Investi-
gator" Human hair, in chemical properties,
resembles horn, nails, de-, and there Is the same
likelihood Of q spontaneous generation through
the wearing Of false hair as there would be in
wearing combs or any horny fabric, but we all
knov that wherever moisture, grease, and dirt
with heat are associated. organic life ia a certain
result, and if through individual uncleanliness,
IL Through cupidity, any body seeks such commo-
dities from those who by necessity cannot have 8
trade knowledge of the article, then there should
not be . complaint IL disastrous consequences
suit II is obvious that persons employed in the
manufacture, who often work in heat and vapor,
must necessarily be greatly diseased il "Investi-
gator" is correct But the reverse is the case;
they are healthy. Suffice it further to say, that
In the English market it 10 not within the recol-
lection of any of our firm ever having received or
heard Of q parcel Of human hair from Russia; so,
whstever may be the matter there, il is hardly
likely to affect our friends here.
We are, sir, yours, de-,
r. HoyEEDEN A SONS.