St. Paul daily globe., 1888-01-08
WHEN YOUR HAIR GIVES OUT.
Wigs and Wigmakers--It Pays to
Understand the Art Of Manipu-
iating the Human Hair.

Wigs and Wignakers--It Pays to
Understand the Art Of Manipu-
iating the Human Hair.
A barber says that one of the few
kinds of wOman's work which is not
OvercrOwded, and at which competent
girls can always earn good wages, is
that which includes the working, cut
ting and general management of the
human hair. TIE hair trade is dull
now. After the holidays people will
have more time to attend to their hair.
The average pay of the female hair
dressers is So week. Sometimes it
reaches as high as SIS a week, and some
times goes down to S.. A girl who un-
derstands the business thoroughly can
command $18 week anywhere. One
halrdreSser in this city used to employ
40 girls, and paid out S70o weekly in
wages.
The profit lies in false hair. Women
that have their hair cut short and are
tired Of it. buy wigs or switches" to
wear in the street. Those whose hair is
poor, or who suffer from badness, wear
false hair at all times. Girls who con-
fine their attention to hair-working
alone, earn from s. to $40 a week. 1t is
an art that needs skill and no small
amount of patience and perseverance to
succeed with. The hair with which the
wigs are made is collected by CONNER
eial travellers in Germany and France.
England and Belgium are poor markets
. for hair, not because of the scarcity, for
both English and Belgian women have
fine hair. but because they will not sell
it. When collected it is put through a
cleaning process, severe enough to fetch
the dirt out of an elephants hide, and
then dyed several times over. The best
hairdreSSerS never buy hair from the
head or from private hands.
Perfectly white hair is rare and COM
mandS almost any price. Natural curl
ing is also of considerable value. A
good wig of white hair costs $40. The
material Of which these wigs are made
is clipped from the goat and seldom
from the human head. A plenteOuSly
soft silky kind of snow,white hair comes
from the Ang0ra rabbit. A perfectly
white and abundant wig of human hair
would he worth at least 81 900. Hair
cut from the head after death is never
used by any good hairdreSser. 1t can
not be used to any advantage, as it will
neither curl nor twist. Hair can be
proved by pulling it to its utmost ca
pacity. When lOOsened it will contract
to its former length.
Costly Halls in New York Houses.
The entrance hall is the biggest, the
most imposing, the cOstliest and by long
odds the handsomest apartment in a
modern New York house of the first
rank, says letter to the Albany EX-
press. New Workers of wealth and taste
have entirely abandoned the straight
hall of the narrow block house where
the stairs go straight up and the narrow
passage to the back parlOr and base
ment stairs goes straight back. Instead
they have made the hall the central
feature of the establishment, to which,
If necessary, everything else is subOr-
dinated. The new type or hall
is elaborate in its architectural
features, richly antique in it's
furnishings, and if the mistress of the
establishment has any taste whatever
for large decorative effects it is upon
the hall she lavishes them. The hall,
indeed, is so much of hobby that peo-
pie build new houses in order to have
halls. ''s
1t is not an unknown thing to give up
the whole first floor to the hall, putting
the parlOr on the second floor. Whether
the hall be big or little, it's furnishing is
thing to which its mistress is giving
much attention nowadays. TO be quite
perfect it should be done up in old oak
and have Settles standing about i'm
room of chairs. 1t should have big oak
table, a smaller one to hold the silver
salver on which guests card is taken
to the lady of the house, and it's floor
should be of oak, polished till it shines.
The hall is of quite as much cOnse-
quence as the drawing-rOomS.