Arizona silver belt., 1888-01-21
ABOUT FALSE HAIR. iaa
Where It Comes From and How It '[Is
 Obtained.

where It Comes trOHl anu AAON %N tAS
 Obtained.
 "Nearly all the false hair that is sold
 in this country, said hair dealer to a
 reporter recently, ''is brought from France and Germany. It is obtained in those countries from the peasant girls
 The Berlin and Paris merchants send
 their agents out through the country dis
 tricts, and whenever one of these agents
 meets a lass with iino crop of hair he
 immediately begins to bargain with her.
 As rule the peasants know so little ot the world, and are so utterly ignorant Of
 the value of things, that they generally sell their hair at the most ridlculously low prices. It is nothing uncommon to see French peasant girl dispose of the most magnificent suit of hair, @ suit that we could sell fer SD, for worthless ear ring or a string Of bright looking beads. If these merchants meet girl on the road whose hair attracts them they never give the poor girl time to think, or op- portunity to go home and consult her parents, but the moment she says yes, out come their shears and of goes her magnificent hair, and the poor child's only return is a worthless tIinket. It seems sad, but such is life-at least, hair merchant life.
 After tho hair has been all collected and brought into Paris and Berlin it is then put tlirnugha cleaning process and assorted and arranged. On all hair, as it comes from tAhcad, there is, no matter how dean 6 pn tries to keep her or himsaf, more 5lt less dandruf. The hair is passed tlroJl@h a sort of wire net or chain, the wiressof which are so close to- gether that the hairs themselves can scarcely pass through. You would think this would cut the hair, but it docs not. It only gets the dirt off, and it does so most effectually. After tho hair is thus thoroughly cleaned it is assorted in proper colors, qualities and lengths. Then the black hair IS again run over, and three more piles or heaps are made of 1.-the long black hairs, the medium and the short, The light hair is similarly as- sorted. Then the dealers mix the black and light Lair together and make from them different shades. By mixing a jet black, for instance, with a color two shades lighter than jet black you get a color exactly one shade lighter, and this is the rule all through the different com binations of hair colors. A color mixed with another color that is two shades lighter than itself will produce a color one shade lighter, and shade that ap- pears to be perfectly natural. If the hair is mixed with a color that is more than two shades it will produce a streaky rrvl,in1, ic ,,f L. I. avoided; but when the mixing is prop erly done not even an expert can tell the difference between the real color and the color that is the result of this skillful manipulation.
 The French are the most expert hair mixers in the world, and many a blonde or brown suit of hair that looks so per fectly natural is, in reality, the product of two different heads and is the result of the ingenious French hair mixers. What does a head of hair cost? Well, of course, there is in hair, as in everything else, an immense variety of kinds, and conse- quently an immense variety of prices. Heads of hair can be bought as low as $15, and there are many that bring S75. | For this latter price I should say that the | very best suit of hair that can be found | in Boston can be purchased. It does not cost a woman, or, should probably say in order to keep ia the fashion, Mrs. Lady, as much to pure, a5e her ha:r now as it did three or four years ago. l Tho I=S-Ts f7t5tv., 7I-ii,,7f 5,J much hair now as they did then, as any one, even Q Mr. Gentleman, can see by glaI2ciGg at one of their heads. Conse- whilo it formerly cost a fash from 9100 to $50 to per fectly adorn her head, supposing, of cou-ac, that she had TO hair at all to start with, the same female can TOW buy the very bes5 head gear in Boston at from $50 to $13. Is there much false hair worn il Boston? Oh, an immense deal of it. i indulge in no exaggeration when say .hat there are not five women in 100 who 60 net wear some false hair. - Boston IIcr-id.