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

"Queer craze this unused hail
dresser as he bowed and scraped q sty-
lishly dressed woman out of the big front
door of his establishment. "Tme 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 at 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 grumble, for
every customer means seventy-five 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
large number of well developed cases.
Neither the young nor old is spared. Why,
last woman about forty-eight years
old came here and threw herself into one
of the chairs like a three-times-a-week
shaver. Did she want her hair cut?
Well, [ should hurry to reply she did.
run the shears around and up and down
the back OF her Uranium until I found
some wrinkles back of her ears, and then
l stopped. In modest sort of way told
her OF my discovery and recommended
mixture | have for removing the burrows
of time. Why, sir, that woman was so
Inundated that she cleft orders to have
her tresses made into a wig and switch,
and only yesterday Isaw this lady prom
enading on State street with her hair
fastened on with pins, nets and strings.
ooh, this epidemic is just great. Let
me tell you OF 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
barber's chair and paid forty cents for a
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 a jealous passion, and, Just
to wound the poor girls heart, donned
her bureau-drawer switches and pompa-
dours and in this head gear she may be
seen almost any day looking daggers at
the humble barber shop across the street.
cts sad, though, when a red-headed
girl catches the fever This young lady
is all right with sunset tresses; but with
themFof the back of her head looks like
brindle doorstep rug. Then, besides, if
freckles have been hiding around her
neck and ears they are bound to come out
and cause comment
~ predict a great and immediate craze
oE hair jewelry, wigs and switches.
When the mercury gets down ten or
,wenty degrees below zero you will see
hese young women coming around here
or hirsute blankets and the like. I over
heard two doctors talking with an under
aker the other day. One of the medi-
line men said that he was confident that
he short-hair craze would result in a
arge increase in catarrhal affections, and
he undertaken bowed low and divided an
!pple with his companion. ~ Chicago
7eraId.