Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1886-03-10
Tie Shu,: Hair CrrZh.

Queer craze ihi,,' Unused South
Side hair dresser rs he bowed and
scrapcd u st;lshly dressed woman out
OF the big front door OF hi3 establish.
ment. Time WAS when woman gior.
led in her ,rcSScS. but she doesn't
glory any mere. Strange, too. that
this mania shpuld become so virulcnt
just as winter is about to set in and at
time when mot wovlcn used to want
all the hair they could pile on without
disgusting the men folks about tho
house. But it is the style, and | don't
see why us drcssers should grumble,
for every customer means scventy-tive
cents in your pocket. Yes; it was Ellen
Terry who started the craze. Rose
Cleveland, the Presidents sister, was
probably the first to catch tho fever,
and iron this lady the contagion has
spread until now near y every city ard
town in the country has large num-
Der of well developed cases. Neither
the young nor the old is spared. Why,
last week woman about iorty-eight
years old came here and threw herself
into one of the chairs like three-times-
a-week shaver. Did she want her hair
cut2 Well, | should hurry to reply she
did Iran the shears around and up
and down the back OF her Uranium un-
til found some wrinkles back OF her
ears, and then stopped. In y 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 left orders 10 haze her tresscs made
into u wig and switch, and only yes
terday 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 oyer
on the West Side. Tho 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 strick-
en- with the malady. Next day the girl
climbed into barDers chair and paid
forty cents for a Tammany Hall hair
cut. Then she was proud, She walized
into her basement abode with n reck-
less hurrah and got dinner with a mas
culine dash. When the mistress be-
held her clipped servant she dew into
a jealous passion. and, just to wound
the poor girls heart, donned her bu-
reau-drawer switches and pompadours
and in this head gear she may DO seen
almost any day looking daggers at
the humble barber shop across the
street.
"lt's sad, though. when red-head-
cd girl catches tho fegec. This young
lady is all right with long sunset tresS.
es; but with them off the back of her
head looks likea brindlo doorstep rug.
Then, besides, ii freckles have been
hiding around her neck and ears they
are bound to como out and cause COM
ment.
II predict great and immediate
craze for hair jewelry, wigs and switch
es. When the mercury gets down ten
or twenty degrees below zero you will
see these young women coming around |
here for hirsute blankets and tho like.
l overheard two doctors talking with
an undertaken the other day. One of
the medicine men said that he was con-
iident that the short-hair craze would
result in . large increase in catarrhal
affections and the undertaken bowed
low and divided an apple with his COM
panions. "-thtcago Herald.