Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-03
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YANkT DAKOTA.
Friday Evening, ian. 3, 1879
HUMAN HAIR.

- row OF inc F~aena0na0lO Ahades and
How 1t IL Produced.
New York Star.
A, fashionable uptown dealer 10 human
hair was pleased to give some information
recently concerning her trade tn . writer
Tor The Star. On being asked II her bust
ness IL one that is generally profitable, she
replied:
"Milliops of dollars worth ofhumsn bair
,s imported 10 this city. every year-the
Lewiston Brothers alone importing
$4,000 worth. having agents in Europe
all the time to secure the best possible
sales 10 the various markets in which II is
sold. There are three classes of dealers
first, the importers; second, the flrst-class
buyers; third, the manufacturers who use
cembings the refuse of the tables at which
wigs aud curls have been manufactured"
(Which color is considered the choicest
in the trade?"
THE ash blonde. q blue blonde, If l may
50 call it, 10 the rarest, the most beautiful
and the most expensive. 1t is only found
In Germany, Norway, and some parts of
northern Europe, and canno be initiated
by dyeipg."
"What of the golden blonde color; how
is that produced, as it is rarely naturally"
Sometimes it comes from bleaching the
hair. Some shades of hair will turn that
color if a certain wash is used on the head.
and the hair exposed to the sun. You
know how the Venetian ladies of old are
described as sitting on the house-tops with
their long locks wet with hair dye, drawn
through the open crown of a large straw
brlmmed hat, in order 10 change their
brown or auburn hair into pale gold colors.
10 this. as In everything else, history is re.
producing itself"
but there is some wonderful hsir-dye
used at present"
"You allude to the blondine. That was
discovered In the year 1918, A certain DR..
Richardson introduced it 10 London az a
cure for consumption. A Frenchman q
few years later while taking his mixture
from day to day for = cough, dropped = lit
tie of 1t on his mustache, and was surprised
10 lind 1t turning to q golden blonde. II
had been called by some other name, but the
ingredients are precisely the same"
What does il resembles"
Here madame showed me q bottle of q
cOlOrless liquid.
"You gee 1t has no color-and it is with
out perfume. II is made like ice. cream, that
is 1t is frozen when manufactured. Let me
show you the effect of it. on dark hair.
Here is q switch of hair which has been wet
once in the blondine. You see, it is of a
dark red here is another which has been
wei twice-it is Of a lighter shade of red,
and SO on to the sixth dyeing, which has
effected a complete change from very dark
brown into the lovely golden blonde, so
coveted at the present time by the would. be
beauties Of the gentler sex"
DO ladies dye their own hairy
oh yes; We sell quantities Of dye fo,
home use. 1t is only $2 per bottle, and is
good for the growth of the hair"
Where do the wholesale dealers make
their largest purchases?"
well, from all parts ofEurope, but most.
ly from France and Germany. there are meu
who make it their business to 60 from house
to house among the pesssntry to buy the
bair frsm the heads of the young women.
They are called "%Scalpers." 1t is the moth
er who sells her daughters hair. She calls
her daughter in ron the field and makes
her sit down before the scalper, who turns
her hair over her face like q vail, and then
cuts the crown locks. In two years a new
crop ia grown ready for another sale. These
country girls never use anything but beef
tallow as q dressing, and their hair is very
healthy and strong. The Italian hair is apt
to be filthy 1t has not SO good a sale, and
it 10 cosrser. The Chinese hair brings the
lowest price, it is so very coarse--just like
horse-hair."
You do not mentiOnrAmerican harris
it not In the market"
American hair is considered valueless-it
has no essential growth. There is some-
thing in the climate that produces badness,
or 1t may be our rapid style Of living at any
rate with some few exceptions, there are
few persons among US who have healthy
heads of hair. No other nation of women
have SO much hair dressing as we have. not
even the French women, and all these mix.
lures and pomatums used as hair-dressine
arc ruinous to the sclap. The first class
dealers never purchase American hair. It
can be bought, Of course, atthe hospital, and