Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-05-25

THE DANGERS OF HEMPEN cuRLs.

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An instance came to the writer's know
ledge of lady who actually contracted
some peculiar and disagreeable skin disease,
as we'll, entirely in the opinion OF her ply
stefan, through the weight ofa falling mass
of hempen braids, clustered upon her neck
at the base of her head, and resting natu-
rally. upon the pores OF some portion OF
pesed TO have been contracted. 1t will
thus be seen that false hair Tor, by courtesy
so-called false hair,) is q dangerous thing
to trife with, and If literally indispensable
to lady's life, should invariably be pur-
chased and woven exclusively of the most
carefully cleansed and personally inspected
human hair.
THE HAIR MARKET OF THE WORLD.
Paris is the hair market of the world.
In that irrepressible city, huge warehouses,
lined with dusky lines of shelves, tier upon
tier, and story upon story, are packed away
in human hair of every imaginable shape,
texture and quality of price, from the sill
yer-white of age to the glinting gold of ex-
tremer babyhood. These two latter varie-
ties constitute by so far the most expensive
in voices as TO out-rank the darker shades
in the proportion of thirty or forty to finer.
First, in desirability, par excellence, are
the lint-white tresses which hang silvery
and clustering from the age-bleached brows
of old men and women. These are, of
course, in such marvellous demand, not be-
cause Of the worlds literal reverence for
age, but because of their absolute lack of
tint, which of course may thus successful
" borrow any desired tint This silver
white species-and next the gray-brings,
when dressed, to the hair merchants purse,
all of $50 an ounce. Next in order of de-
STABILITY, and probably nearly equal III
favor, the red-gold or auburn, with the
pure gold and fiaxen, predominant their
Xs.~1, To-, Of
color-wealth range unevenly between thir-
ty (never UNDER and fifty-sometimes,
when very beautiful, in very rare instances,
rs bright as even the aforementioned, $50
per ounce. Now mark the difference
Dark hair, even of the very finest black or
chestnut, never overruns, and if at all only
in unusually fine qualities, $50 per pound.
It's ordinary price ranges from So to SIS
per pound.
THE SOURCES OF SUPPLY.
The Partisan hair houses have agents in
all parts of the world, choosing and buy
ing hair, the joint stock of which, when
collected together, is sent to Paris; there
cleansed and prepared in the warehouses,
assorted into various colors switch by
switch and finally, all preliminaries hav-
ing been completed, these switches are
knotted up, severally, like so many cows
tails, and transferred from the shelves of
the warehouses to heavy tarred-canvass
bags in which they are finally re-secured
and transported all over the world. Coiled
in its plebian canvass prison, the garnered
red-gold wealth of historical patrician
beauty flutters, mayhap over the scowling
lock of the convict, or possibly yet jostles
the thin, sensitive hair of mendicant,
whose timely sheared locks haply brought
the savory loaf in the hour of her direst
need The converts of France furnish, in
the sacrificed tresses of her nuns, great
portion of her hair-wealth. This IL true
also, TO greater or less degree, of all Ca
| tholic countries. American pedlers there
are, also, who, over the length and breadth
of the Union, look up and buy the hair
that country people and INDECENT, tramp
| ing beggars can be induced TO sell for cash.
| AS rule, American hair IL, both in color
and quality, fineness and texture, consid-
| cred by far the most desirable. English
hair IL about on par, or nearly, with our
own, The French Is usually coarser, but
oftentimes thicker, and in some cases long
er in proportion than that of her English
sister,. That of the Spanish and Italian
women, much coarser still, oftentimes
rankly lustrous, and again longer even
! than the French. Much of the finest
blonde hair comes from Germany much,
again, of the red and gold from Ireland and
| Scotland. Both blonde--flaXen principally
and black, comes from Russia. The
| United States, however, furnishes by far
az might naturally be expected-the great
est variety and profusion of human hair,
not only TO its own metropolitan markets,
but yearly now, in its technical "ward !"
| state, to the hair markets of Europe and
| the East.