Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-11-11
THE SHORT HAIR CRAZE.
Maid and Mistress Alike Must Have
Tammany Hail or Terry Cut.

"Queer craze this" mused hair
dresser as he bowed and scraped a sty-
lishly dressed woman out OF the big front
door Of his establishment "Time was
when woman gloried in her tresses, but
she doesn't glory any more. Strange,
too, that this mania should become SO
virulent just as winter is about to set in
and mt time when most women used to
want all the hair they could pile on with
out disgusting the men folks about the
house. But ii is the style, and l don't
see why us dressers should grumble, for
every customer means seventy-tive cents
in our pocket. Now, let me think mo-
ment. Yes; it was Ellen Terry who
started the craze. Rose Cleveland, the
Presidents sister, was probably the first
to catch the fever, and from this lady the
contagion has spread until now nearly
every city or town in the country has a
large number of well developed cases.
Neither the young nor old is spared. Why,
last week a woman about forty-eight years
old came here and threw herself into one
OF the chairs like three-times-a-week
shaver. Did she want her hair cut?
Well, should hurry to reply she did. L
run the shears around and up and down
the back of her Uranium until | found
some wrinkles back of her ears, and then
l stopped. In modest sort of way told
her OF my discovery and recommended a
mixture I have for removing the burrows
OF time. Why, sir, that woman was so
Inundated that she tleft orders to have
her tresses made into wig and switch,
and only yesterday saw this lady prom
enading on State street with her hair
fastened on with pins, nets and strings.
"Oh, this epidemic is just great. Let
me tell you oil another funny case. The
wife OF wealthy man came home one
night with her raven locks wrapped up in
a newspaper which she carried Under her
arm. At the table the servant girl 'piped'
off her mistress and was stricken with the
malady. Next the girl climbed into a
BARRIERS chair and paid forty cents for q
Tammany Hall hair cut. Then she was
proud. She waltzed into her basement
abode with reckless hurrah and and got
dinner with masculine dash. When
the mistress beheld her clipped servant
she flew into u jealous passion, and, just
to wound the poor girls heart, donnet
her bureau-drawer switches and pompa
dours and in this head gear she may BIZ
seen almost any day looking daggers a
the humble barber shop across the street
cts sad, though, when red-headec
girl catches the fever. This young lad,
is all right with sunset tresses but with
them off the back OF her head looks like
brindle doorstep rug. Then, besides, i
freckles have been hiding around he
neck and ears they are bound to come on
and cause comment.
81 predict great and immediate Graz
for hair jewelry, wigs and switches
When the mercury gets down ten o
twenty degrees below zero you will Sc
these young women coming around her
for hirsute blankets and the like. over
, heard two doctors talking with an under
taker the other day. One OF the med
cine men said that he was confident tina
, the short-hair craze would result in
J large increase in catarrhal affections, an
the undertaken bowed low and divided a
apple with his companion. "-Chicag
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