The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-07-18
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'.Shampooing women and young girls
IL as much q business with us now as
shampooing men has been for years
with BARRIERS" fashionable hairdresser
said in reply to a reporters questions
after she had sold blonde curl friz to
blue-eyed young lady. I'VE charge
fifty cents for shampoo, and it takes 8
dresser fully half an hour TO cleanse one
head and dry the hair thoroughly.
Until few years ago every lady sham
pooed herself at home. but the work is
80 laborious and tiresome that most
women now prefer to have it done by q
professional hairdresser. We do it
neater and better and we use a solution
that is beneficial to the head and hair
Diluted alcohol is used in drying the
hair, for women's hair is so thick and
long, when they wear their own hair,
that ii is a difficult task TO dry it.
Wealthy ladies have their maids to do
the shampooing or else we send a girl
to their residence and we charge one
dollar for the service. But nine women
out of ten go to the hairdresser. who
has cozy private room and all the
latest appliances for shampooing, dye
ing. curling and dressing hair. Many
a young man who falls in love with a
blonde head of hair or profusion of
jet curls would make wry face if he
saw his lady-love in the shampooer' S
chair. with peck of soapsuds piled on
her head, and a heap of curls, frizzes
and switches spread on the table. Soap
suds is wonderful leveler, and it wipes
out the artistic and develops the natural
in a startling way in most cases.
After customer has removed all her
false hair the hairdresser carefully
combs the natural hair until the comb
passes through it easily. Then solu-
ton of soap and other ingredients is
sprinkled on the head and rubbed in
briskly until the head is covered with
suds. Of course towels have been
wrapped about the neck and shoulders,
the same as the barber does with men,
to prevent the suds from staining the
dress. When the head and hair are
well rubbed, they are washed with
tepid water, sponge being used. the
customer leaning her head far back on
the cushioned neck-rest of the chair SO
that Der hair falls into a large basin
full of clear water. We use the sponge
to wash all the soap and dirt out from
the head and then we sponge the hair
with the alcoholic preparation. Brisk
rubbing with towels dries the hair. SC
that lady. after having a little bay
rum sprinkled on. can go home without
fear OF taking cold. But the hair can
not be dressed well for several hours
after the shampooing is finished. There
| fore ladies who are to go out in the
| evening come to us in the morning oil
| early in the afternoon. If You will ster
into the toilet-room will show you how
we make homely women presentable
and pretty women beautiful"
On following the hairdresser into Q
| little room at the rear of the shop, the
reporter saw on the cream tinted walls
several large mirrors. Lace curtains
shaded the two windows. Curling ano
crimping irons were spread on a table
| Uttered with heaps of loose hair or diff
| ferent colors. Three chairs with plush
upholstery faced three mirrors, and q
sofa and four easy-chairs were on one
side of the room. In front of two
! copper tanks, filled with, hot and colo
water, were large white china basins,
cakes of perfumed soap, bottles of thr
| shampoo solution, and numerou
sponges, combs, brushes and SNOWY
towels. After the reporter mustered
courage enough to squat in one of the
shampoo chairs, with towel wrapped
about his neck and shoulders, the fair
hairdresser rolled the sleeves of her
dress up to her shoulders, displaying
the white and dimpled arms, and then
proceeded to show chow it is done
here" She squirted a soapy fluid quite
literally on his head. and then began
to manipulate briskly with her white
and nimble fingers. His hair was re
markably short, for he had undergon,
a "Riley cut few days previous, and
therefore her magnetic fingers caused
leach particularly hair TO stand on end
and thrill with an exquisite sensation
| He liked it, and he didn't care how long
| it was continued. But in ten minutes
his hair was thoroughly sponged, dried
scented, and cembed, and there WASH
a single drop of suds on the neck
towels. 1t was such a delicious sham
poo that the reporter suggested that il
would take immensely with the male
sex if smart and comedy young woman
opened shampoo parlor for mel
only.
80, it would never do" said thu
shampooist, as she arranged the re
porter's necktie; but it's Just what
expected you to say, for men don't un
destand women. Why, couldn't ge
two young women to agree one week il
a shampoo-room for men. for the1
would quarrel over the handsome Gus
toners. And am sure women woult
do more talking than it is said thu
BARRIERS do now. We have it hare
enough now, goodness knows, trying t.
get along with our own sex. Womel
who are all smiles and as sweet a
honey in society are peevish and eros
when they have their hair dressed O
are being shampooed. Red-haireC
women have fearful tempers. for the,
scold us awfully when we chance to pull
their hair trife too hard. Blondes ar,
generally nice and easy to manage, bu
sometimes they do cut up like sin
These blonde women can fume ant
fret, and scold Ike termagants whel
they get their mad up. Black anC
brown haired women are the mos
patient but when they do flare up il
anger they literally make the hair fl,
and tinge the air blue. A shampoo O
hair dressing chair is good place t.
study the character of women, for thei
true nature comes out while they ar,
being soaped and rubbed by one of the
own sex. The truth is, that very few
women have good head of hair, ant
those who have don't get the credit TO
it, because so much false hair is worl
that people won't believe woman
when she says she wears only her owl
hair. l have some customers who's,
hair is so thick that they come to mi
every two months to have it thinnet
out.
Il work the loose hair into flowers
bracelets. frizzes, switches, and othe
articles" the hair-dresser went on t
say, ''for the ladies and for sale here. ant
gentlemen bring to me clusters of hal
from their wives, sisters, lady-loves