Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-19

creasing; and if it is unusually long-that is, from four to five feet-the dealer can get al-
 most his own price, while if it is of ordinary length it is worth from 375 francs to 500 francs (e15 to e20) an ounce. The fact that pure white hair is the court coiEure throughout Europe keeps the demand for it very high. It is much prized by American women whose own hair is white and who desire to enrich it's folds, for white hair is held to give certain distinction to the wearer. There is no fancy market for gray hair; it is too common. It is used to work into wigs of persons who are growing old.
 What is described as golden hair is either a washsd-out pale red or 8 dull blond. The gold color 50 much valued has no relation to red hair, except in the vividnsss of it's col bring. The demand for the virgin gold color is great in the capitals of Europe. A wo- man who gets a coiffure of it is considered fortunate. The are four type calors of hair -whits, blond, black, and brown-snd each of these has been subdivided into sixteen different shades. The commonest types are black and brown, and these are cheap. Col den brown is much in favor, as is pure black, or what is called blue black. Next to pure white hair the demand is for the hair of the color of virgin gold. There are many braids of hair eolored to meet the demand with certain preparations, but they prove unsatisfactory. Many foolish women have sought to change the color of their own tresses, but they have uniformly repentsd the attempt. A fine suit of hair of the purest blond type will sell for from 1000. francs to 2. 500 francs GAO to R190. It Is said that the Empress Eugenie paid l, 1000 francs GAO an ounce for braid of golden hair that exactly matched her own.
 The largest supply of hair comes from Switzerland and Germany, and especially from the French provinces. The country fairs are attended by agents of merchants In London, Paris, and Vienna. Only at inter- vals, however, is prize like perfect suit of golden hair obtained, and am told that there are orders ahead in the shops of PsriH and Lendon for all the golden hair that can be obtained in ths next five years. When stock of hair is collected by trRv- cling agents it is assorted, washed, and cleaned. Then each hair is drawn through the eye of a needle and polished. When the stock is ready for the market here the nobility is permitted to make the first choice.
 A woman's hair may grow to the length of six feet. Mme. Hess of Paris refused 5000 francs for her "cranial covering,n which was about that measurement. Four cover an inch of space. The blond belle has about 140, 900 flaments to comb and brush, while the red haired beauty has to be satisfied with 1000 ths brown-haired but 102, ,000. Few ladies consider that they carry some forty or fifty miles of hair on their head the fair-haired may even have to dress seventy miles of threads of gold every morning. A German experimental ist has proved that g single hair will sus- pend four ounces without breaking, stretch- ing under the process and contracting again. But the hair thus heavily weighted must be dark brown, for blond hair breaks down un- der two and half ounces.
 Az regards the wig trade, the most ex- pensive wigs ere, of course, pure white and the virgin gold color. A young Brook lyn lady of much beauty possesses a splen- did wig of the latter kind, which she chanced te find in shop at Nice. She was blonde, but had a scanty supply of dull hair. It did not take her instant to decide to have her hair cut short and to wear the wig