The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-14
Wigs, Fronts and Frisettes.

The wildcat expedition to Tonquin
and its immediate consequence will
oblige the hair-dressers of Paris to turn
over new leaf. False hair having be-
come a second nature to the ladyhood
of the civilized world, the heads of peas
ant girls in villages where coils are worn
by them no longer, supplies the de-
mand for borrowed locks. All they
can do is to furnish tresses to beauties
who are regardless of expense when a
question of the toilette is to be solved
by money. Twenty years ago the price
of first-rate matte" or long tail. to
serve as black hair" was 40f. 1t would
now cost 25Of. 1t is possible, however,
to buy one that can replace it fairly
well for 60f. or 70f., but certainly not
for less than the former sum. There
are Morbihan heads of hair worth S00f.
The capillary harvest furnished by
Brittany peasant wenches is the best.
1t is long, silky, elastic, and retains
vitality" for years after it is cut.
Basque locks come next in these quail
ties. They lend themselves to the
curling-tOngs, which neither adult
Italian, German, nor Scandinavian
tresses do after severance from the
roots. The Bavarian head produces
hair most plentifully, but as it soon
gets dead it is only good for
braids and .'stuffing.' The Euro
pean supply being insufficient. hair
merchants went to the far East
to shear Chinese and Malay heads. A
brisk and lucrative trade has sprung
up. although the hair of the yellow race
does not suit the Caucasian type of
loneliness Our hair forms round
tube; that growing on Chinese or a
Malay skull forms an oval one. Light
plays on it in different manner from
what it does on heads of European hair.
1t seems to form denser mass, and
gives harsh expression to face the
skin of which is naturally fair. have
had long talk on this subject with a
capillary artist, who was coiffeur to the
Varieties Theater when Mdlle. Schnei-
der was there, and who was frequently
employed by the Princess Metternich,
not, as she herself frankly said, to en-
nance her beauty, but to give spice to
her ugliness. His special gift is to ere
ate styles which harmonic with indi-
yidual physiognomies. A strongly
marked face, he tells me, like that OF
Mdlle. Agar (who has just re-entered
the Francais) or of Marie Laurent can
bear juxtapositiOn with Celestial hair,
albeit of jet black hue. A round WIS.,
age. fresh, fair, and rosy, is seen to
most advantage when it has for its ac-
compartments a curly The wig of a
FURNISHED blonde, and made of the haiI
of Thibet goat, or of very young chill
dren. The child's head used
to be neglected in the fairs and markets
where purveyors for coiffures reap their
provincial harvests. But it is now
eagerly sought after because it is the
best for those wavy scalps and fringes
which most successfully hide falsity.
Our grandmother fronts, with their
distinct parting" took in nobody.
Those calculated to deceive were bound
On the head with narrow velvet band
which went twice round and covered
the place where the edge of the front
met the forehead. When nature fails
to well-clothe the coronal region, art
steps in with a frisette, the Partisan
name for scalp bordered with curly
fringe made of child's hair. Old ladies
who disdain to dye are not above re-
sorting to borrowed locks, which en-
able them to dispense with caps. Grey
'.nattes," chignOns, and poodle scalps
look very well, provided the decorative
arrangement of jewels, plumes, or ar
titicial flowers is judieious, and that the
hair employed in them is shorn from
European heads. The hair merchant
now enables the old woman at the
Salpetriere to enjoy many little COM
forts which formerly they were obliged
to go without. Long and elastic grey
hair of natural tinge is ruinously dear.
A lady of venerable years can only dis
pense with caps and dyed tresses by
paying great price for undyed Ones
London Truth.
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