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A Crazc for Short Hair In the West

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"Oueer craze this" unused q south side
hairdresser rs he bowed and scraped a
stylishly-dressed woman out of the big
front door of his establishment. thine
was when woman gloried in her t~resses,
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 at a time when most women used to
want all the hair they could pile on with.
out disgusting the men FOLKS about the
house. But it is the style, and I don't
see why us dressers should grum' lie, for
every customer means seventy five cents
in our pocket. Now let me think a mo-
ment. Yes. it was Ellen Terry who
started the craze. Roe Cleveland, the
Presidents sister, was probably the first
to catch the fever, and from this lady
the c%ontagion has spread until now nearly
every city and town in the country has q
large number of well-developed cases.
Neither the young nor the old is spared.
Why last week a woman about forty
eight years old came here and
threw herself into one of the chairs
like a thrce.times-a-week shaver.
Did she want her hair cut9
Well, 1 should hurry to reply
she did. I run the shears around and
up and down the back OF her Uranium
until I found some wrinkles back of her
ears, and then I stopped. In a modest
sort of way l 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 left orders to have her tresses made
into a wig and switch, and only yester-
day I saw this lady promenading on
State street with her hair fastened on
with pins, nets and strings.
"Oh, this epidemic is just great. Let
me tell you of another funny case over
on the West Side. The wife of q
wealthy man came home one night with
her raven locks wrapped up in a news
paper which she carried under her arm.
At the table the servant 'piped off her
mistress, and was stricken with the NAL
ady. Next day the girl climbed into a
BARRIERS chair and paid forty cents for
a Tammany hall hair cut. Then she
was proud. She waltzed into her base
ment abode with a reckless hurrah, and
got dinner with q masculine dash.
When the mistress beheld her
clipped servant she flew into a jealous
passion, and, just to wound the poor
girls heart, donned her bureau-drawer
switches and pompadours, and in this
head gear she may be seen almost any
day looking daggers at the humble bar
Der shop across the street.
'It's sad, though, when a red'headed
girl catches the fever. This young lady
is all right with long sunset '~rcsses; but
with them off the back of her head looks
like q brindle doorstep rug. Then, be-
side, if frcckles have been hiding
around her neck and ears they are bound
to come out and cause comment. | pre-
dict o great and Immediate craze for hair
jewelry, wigs and switches. When the
mercury gets down ten or twenty degrees
below zero you will see these young
women coming around here for hirsute
blankets and the like. I overheard two
doctors talking with an undertaken the
! other day. One Of the medicine men
said that he was confident that the short
hair craze would result in a large in
crease in catarrhal affections, and the
undertaken bowed low and divided an
apple with his companion. - Chicago
Herald.