Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-11-03
HUMAN HAIR.
4 Dealer Tells Why Women Part With
Their Greatest Adjournment.
PHILADELPHIA PreaaI


Philadelphia Press.I
"Is this the place where they buy cut
human hair, STRIP
at Is. Have you any to sellfD
"Yes, sir, l have plait here. You can
see, sir, that 1t Is my own hair. had a
spell Of sickness few weeks ago and the
doctor ordered my hair taken OF. How
much is this worth!"
"For hair like that we pay two dollars
per pound. All the hairs are not the same
length. and therefore this plat Is not so
valuable as It would be IL 1t did not taper.
This weighs just three-quarters of pound
-one dollar and half.
Really, sir, is that the most you can
pay for it. thought would get at least
five dollars for it, or would not have cut
II eff."
THAT is the best can do for you. II
you are not satisfied you will have to take
your hair away with you"
"Oh, / shall take the dollar and a half,
only It seems such little BIT for all my
hair"
The foregoing Is q dialogue that 90
Cured in Filbert street hair store be-
tween a young girl and the proprietor.
The girl was about ninetOon years OF age,
neatly hut not extensively dressed. Her
hair had been cut short, AMI she carried
the clipping in q small caba- When she
Laid it GU. on the show case the dealer ex-
amined livery closely anil fixed its value
1t was tApering plat OF chestnut brown
hair, abou: two feet in length. After the
girl had received her money and left the
store the proprietor toss ii the bunch OF
hair into a bcx back OF the counter, re +.
marking: "Poor gil! She's hard mp.
That is an oil story about a spell of sick
ress and n doctor ordering her hair cu,
We hear that so often that We seldom psy
any attention 10 it now. The truth is thos
great many gi.ls fndin. themselves in
s'rni'enel circumstance sell every thin !.
taey have and finally Jecils to part with
-Aeir hair. Most OF .hsm ore girls OF spiri;
snd 20 not want to acknowledge their
poverty, 50 they tell the yRrn about L.in :
..ek."
IL surpo1e yoG AGve some 9Toeg peoa..
- call vou1
"Al ,orts OF characters come here to sell
hair. Cd women wi gray hair, mi Idle
aged women with mix ri hair, AMI young
v'nIcn whose hair mas not We. begun t.,
eurn, are classeI am sng our clients. II Is
'ot an in!rcqusut Occurrence for a NAN -
resent n wJman's hair for ssla- MAJ
o1s very li:tle ~ say whan he comes IL
she store. IL gives You the idea by his
actions that he is ashamed OF his Job and
Wsris 20 get through with il as soon az
possii.ls. A. a general thin : hs asks few
S:,Ies.ions, taxes what he Il offered and
.ssvNs.
" bS: Is he highest price yoa payi"
Three dollars per pound ia the most |
pay. This price is only paid for hair that
Is OF uniform len tn, or what is called .
club piece. IL is not often that we get
club pieces. the majority being of the ia
Pering character, such as the young girl
sold short time ago."
"Then you think necessity often compels
women TO sell their hairi"
II know it to be fact. / have bought
hair from many girls whose faces have
been the picture of distress. Middle aged
and elderly women have also been COM
p Led by poverty to sell their hair to OBJ
tain food for their families. OF course
this does not apply to everybody. People
who are in comfortable circumstances are
sometimes compelled TO have their hair
cut and occasionally they sell It. As a
rule, however, these women have their
hair made up for their own use."
Then after the hair Of poor girls and
women ia made up into bangs and switch
es, il is sold TO any one who desires 70
buyI"
Just so. There are women living I'm
fashionable quarters Of the city who wear
the hair Of young girls aud middle ged
women that has been parted with by the
original owners only after the guawinE
pangs OF hunger have driven them Ia IL -