Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-23

The Popular Craze Among the Giddy
Fair Ones that Haunt the
Summer Resorts.

Anyone strolllng along the beach about
noon, writes a Conoy island c%orrespon-
dent of The Baltimore American, when
the fair ones are on dress parade, must
notice the number of ladies' of dark com
plexion wearing blonde hair of the very
latest shades. This anomaly is not the
work of nature, as may be supposed by
some, but of n small black vial labeled
"Bleaching Liquid" to be had of any
druggist or hair dresser. One of the
largest Wholesale dealers in bleaching
preparations in this country is stopping
here. and a talk with him to-day revealed
many interesting points on the subject of
bleaching.
"The price of the liquid" said he is 81
a bottle, and it requiresithree or four APP
plications daily for a week or 30 to do
its work. All bleaching preparations
are perfectly harmless, so much 30 that
they can be drank with the utmost safety.
The only instructions that need be given
to the person using it is the manner of
application. For instance a very dark
brunette must use at least three walls, or
say a pint of the liquid, while a person of
medium complexion requires much less
In warm, sunny weather the change is
more complete and satisfactory. The
application is maze after each meal and
then allowed to dry in the sur or near a
hot stove if 1t happens to be bad weather.
The change is made i'll degrees, and can
readily be distinguished as it progresses.
The application proves futile in very few
cases."
"When did the craze begin?'
tNODly q ypor nv 10 am II UNA atnrtp1
by the ladies i'll tho upper circle, and
then followed by store and factory girls"
"\Nhat is the cost of the operation"
"Not more than So, if performed by
the lady bleaching. If, however, she
goes to an aristocratic hair artist, the ex-
penses will foot up $50 or $50, and the
bleach will not be any better than that
done by herself, provided, of course, she
follows instructions"
SIN your experience, do you think
bleaching beauties the ladiesl'
THAT is the most remarkable thing
about the whole affair. Nine out of
every ten ladies who have purchased the
liquid of me came into my store very
falr.looking brunettes, and when l saw
them after the bleaching some of them
looked positively ugly. Indeed, one of
the younger ladies told me she knew she
had tempered with whatever beauty she
possessed, but she did not care, 30 long
as she was in fashion,"
"Do they ever try to bleach their eye
brows and lashesl"
Eyes; but they never succeed"
"How long does the bleaching last?"
"Bleached hair never resumes it's natu-
,nl ,r1,. ~ l,,- Sal " n.-. D,.r
years, but as fast as the hair grows the
liquid must be kept applied, otherwise a
part of the hair will be light and that
about the roots dark, Just the same as
with a man who dyes his mustache."
us bleaching confined exclusively to
women"
mot a bit of it. Many of our young
swells keep a few bottles of the liquid
among their toilet articles. 1t is, of
course, much easier for a man to keep his
hair in the proper condition than a woman
for the reason that he is not bothered
with switches, bangs, ~frizzes, etc"
How are the different shades OBJ
tained?"
They are regulated by the strength of
the liquid"
"Do any of the ladies ever tire of the
trouble and expense of keeping up the
operation of bleaching"
~"Frequently, and they go at once to a
hair. dresser and have their hair cropped
short, wearing a wig Of about the same
shade while their own hair is growing
out again.
as there any preparation to darken
light hair"
"Nothing except a dye, and that very
few ladies will touch, because of its
qualities"
"Where do you get the hair you
SELF"
"From the interior towns of Germany,
principally, where regular buyers travel
for London and Partisan dealers. After
it goes through a cleansing process, much
of 1t is shipped to this country. met
one of these buyers IN a visit to this
country a short time ago, and became
much Interested in some of his expert
ences. He said young girls with beau
tiful suits of silken hair anxiously await
the buyers each year or two to sell them
their hair. The prices paid are from So
to $40 a pound. A full suit of fine hair
weighs about eight or ten ounces and the
seller usually takes in exchange 81 or So
worth of calico or muslin. A consider.
able quantity of hair is also received
from young ladies entering the Catholic
converts of this country. There is a
house in New York that has a regular
contract with one of the leading converts
of that city to purchase the hair of pos.
~tulants.