Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-23
police headquarters, yesterday,


| in the Rogues Gallery. They were queer lot
OF faces. Some OF them looked like born rog ues
but others would have passed anywhere for born
gentlemen. The shrewdest villains of the lot
are given the distinction of having their por-
traits hung up near the door where the detec-
tives pass In and out. SO that each man on the
force may know their features, as well as those
of his own father. This is the secret of the
dispatch Of police captures. If Inspector
Byrnes who Is at the head Of the detective bu-
| reau. has description Of a confidence man or
a thief. he can send his men out and take him
In a few hours. 1t is by knowing criminals and
watching them that the great decrease in crime
Is due which has taken place within the last ten
years As soon as thief discovers that he is
well known by tine police, he goes to try his for
tune in q new field.
NOVELTIES IN HAIR DRESSING
There should not be the prejudice against
wigs that there is" said madame the hair
dresser. inclining her head to one side and purs-
ing I'D her mouth.
Inc hair-dressing establishment where ma
dame delivered herself of this opinion was more
Ike a drawing-rOom In 5th avenue mansion
than shop There was soft carpet of fine
texture on the floor magnificent hangngs and
luxurious appointments.
why do you defend wigs" / inquired
Becausc they are as useful as any article of
dress that a woman can wear" said madam
encrgetica'Iy. my hair is straight YOU see
Straight hair is not fashionable now hat hair
that is fluffy on the forehead or is criinDci so
as 10 recede in waves down the sides of the
! head. When a woman has hair like NINE il is
great Inconvenience for her to be fashionable.
She has to put her hair upon pins and use paste
TO make 1t retain its crinS. and after all Of her
pains she does not know but that it Will
uncurl while She is entertaining company
in the drawing room or in the whirl of dance
at ball. which would be decidedly unpleasant,
would it nGt!''
Madame paused in her remarks to take q wig
from box-that is. part Of one for it was fash
Toned so as to cover simply the front part of the
head and ran down on either side of the parting
| line Ike the wings of a bat. Madame first
roughed the hair all up. then placed it on her
head sticking the points OF the wig under the
Knot OF hair at the back of her head.
1T looks as if it had been struck by a cyclone,
goes 1t not? said madame Yet you cannot
ds'tcct that it is false hair. | have froused it up
that you might see how we'll it may be de-
pended OH With this comb [ am able to comb
!t out as if it were natural hair and make it lie
Ia regular rpp!es on my head. When the wig is
once properly put on, the wearer med have no
fear whatever of any accident Detailing hers"
Are many of these wigs worn by New York
women"
MANY more than any man would suppose
Why should they not be? They save labor and
wears wig which is thought to be her own
natural hair, and which is admired for it's
beauty
us it fashionable to dye the hair yellow, as it
was some time ago."
NO There are few fresh victims, however
TO TINS deus!0n. Those who ruin their hair by
coiorIng it with chemicals have to keep up the
deception by coloring the hair as it grows out
A woman, you know. will do anything rather
than look ridicnlous.''
THE SPIRTTUALISTS.
Spiritualists are the most compliment people
in the world. Nothing can shake their faith in
spOoks, in fact the exposure of medium every
few days only serves to deepen their belief
There are tricksters in all professions" they
say. When Stuart Cumberland. the English
mind-reader. exposed the tricks of professional
mediums, week or two ago. he produced
great excitement among the various societies of
spiritualists. But he did not coavice single
spiritualist that he was a delusonst
with the ayowed object of proving
that Cumberland himself was medium and he
pretended to be in anta@Onisn to spiritualism
Ter the purpose of making money. DR.. Slade
the Weil-knoWn slate writer OF this city was ar
rested some months ago i'm Canada. He confess
sed that he was only a trickster and had no help
at all from departed spirits in performing his
wonders. This. yOu would think. would have
Knocked the sriritualists. who regarded him rs
super-human. quite over. 1t did not. On his
"a " Nc" io' ~ he H'aid that NC iillue the con-
fession to escape imprisonment and his friends
rallied around him and looked upon him as a
martyr. Cumberland's experiments have given
rise to new deusion. which is that objects in
room may be found by subject in the transi-
form state without muscular contact with the
operator. went to the house of leaned pro-
fessor in Brooklyn the other night to see some
experiments testing this theory. The professor
has two or three children who are trance sub
Jects. One OF them attempted to select the
right object from number placed side by side.
AS long as no precautions were taken to pre-
vent him from seeing the person who made the
selection point the object out he succeeded; but
when he was bIindfoded and the test was 9th
erwise made secure he failed every time. The
professor was not Disconnected in the least The
boy was sleepy. he said. So the wonderful sto-
ries had heard of the boys mysterious power
were not verified. Such reports never are
They don't stand the test.