The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-07
TALK ABOUT THE HAIR.
A BARRIERS SHOP FOR WOMEN
RUN BY WOMEN BARRIERS.

Copyrighted 1881
New YORK, Nav Dwell, il you
wouldn't pass for a wild Indian anywhere"
A giggle closed the remark, punctuated by
q candied violet popped into a small red
mouth.
''Sav, Barnum would buy you, or you
might sit for picture of Zip. The precious
pet never would hold still long enough to
get himself taken, would you, old fell
IowT'
There was a second'giggle with caramel
hard on its heels and the hairy toy terrier
appeared to leaped incontinently from its
convulsed mistress arms.
Come, now, Milly, mamma is getting up
a country party for next week. and-well
wouldn't be rude came in rather subdued
protest from under the soapy moisture of
thick shock Of curls, flung in what seemed
a hopeless tangle over a face to which,
nevertheless, bonbons were being lifted with
periodic regularity, and somehow found
access in spite of the big, all-eavelop-
ing apron and the long wet golden-brown
veil.
1t was o'clock of a warm, early May af-
1uo pItbt1 SIBSicl uud hoA hOi
bang trimmed by one Of the cieverest of
New York's women BARRIERS, and was wait
ing while the hidden bonbon munch2r in
dulged in the luxury of shampoo. 1t was
a slender girl of 10 or 20, who was conduct
ing the operation. She scrubbed the scalp
of the unseen fair one, inch by inch, with
little brushes like tooth brushes flinging the
hair up from behind and tossing 1t down
over the eyes,
tBOra az she aSlr nv and Inv
"No; white Of egg if you please"
Two chairs off a small woman had just let
down great club of braid of black hair
with resolved look and grim "Cut it all
Off to the attendant a woman also, who
was beginning to tangle cool steel and agile
celluloid in the heavy tresSeS. Women and
children were passing in and out continu-
ally, and the neat, well-dressed girl attend
ants, with white aprons covering their
quiet-colored gowns and their own hair
tucked very smoothly away, hurried this
way and that in the busiest fashion imagin-
able. The place was BARRIERS shop for
women, daintily fitted establishment, one
of a number which have sprung up recently
in the heart of the shopping district, the
only one probably which is so completely
manned and differed by women. A male
being or two Yields the shears when a
''man's CUT is demanded, but the great bulk
of the business, the cutting, the bang clip
ping, the curling, shampooing, hairdressing
and hairtending, is done by women from 20
to 25
There's no place like it in the city, to pick
up information. BARRIERS since the day Of
Noah have been noted for their converse
tional abilities, and yet in the past BARRIERS
have been only men.
'Do YOU always have such q rush here2n
you ask, as you settle back in the big chair
for turn at the scrubbing brushes and the
soap.
1.-THE year round says the plump blonde
with the immaculate bang who takes YOU
in hand. The heat or the rain or the wind
will spoil any woman's hair. There's no
sort of weather going that isn't death to
any curl but the natural one. Women find
il immensely convenient when their shop
ping is over to slip in here and get their hair
freshly arranged for dinner. The women
who have straight bangs, instead of curly
ones, come every week to have the least lit
tie edge carefully clipped Off and we put
the most skillful girls we have at that.
Women who are at all particular about
their hair come as often as once a month to
have it looked over, and the broken hairs,
and split hairs trimmed to keep in good
order and keep it fro n falling. You'd be
surprised to know bow many shOrt-haired
women there are still. We have 200 among
our regular customers. Most of them
have curly hair and just let it wave a
little. The STRAIGHTFORWARD ones keep
theirs cut closer, but never so short as
mans clip"
"Oh, that's hot"
'lwon't hurt you Ihave got my hand
under the tongs, it can't burn you"
The little women whose black braid is off
by this time is having her short crop curled.
The girl has been twisting up the remnants
of her locks into little knots and pinning
them in bits of white tissue paper with odd
little safety pins. 1t is heavy head of hair
and she puts hundreds of papers on. Then
she begins squeezing them each one with
the hot iron. 1t is here that the fright and
the exclamation come in. But the hair
dresser goes on calmly, INTERPRETING polite
little compliments the while. "What a
quantity of hair you have, and not a white
thread in it. We don't often sec anything
so soft, so glossy and so fine. There are not
twenty women in New York who have such
hair"
"The short hair fashion has not entirely
gone out" you question when the talk next
door subsidies
"No, a great many actresses will always
wear short hair for stage convenience
whether anybody else does or not. Rose
Coghlan comes here often. She has had short
hair for years. She keeps just enough to roll
under a wig OF flare out as a fluff of crimps
for home occasions. Bernhardt has short
hair too Maude Harrison is one of our
customers and Pauline Hall is another.
They find it less trouble to buy wigs than to
grow and take care of hair of their own.
Ellen Terry came in once or twice during
the winter but she doesn't take good care of
her hair. She doesn't wear it long or short
either. She twists it into a rough and
tumble knot, and when it don't twist easily
she's as like to jab at it with her scissors
and shorten it herself as trust it to any
body who knows how. Her hair is a funny
color too, a regular carrot yellow. Rosina
Vokes was in yesterday to get these shaggy
curls of hers clipped and shampooed.
Nice hair she has if she does run her fing-
ers through it So"
What fright amir
Poor little woman in the next chair. 1t
is a fierce and mop-like heap indeed, that
she is looking at in the mirror now. But
that Machlavelli of a blonde-banged bar
Der consoles her while two hands are lifted
ruefully to the lately abbreviated looks.
"Oh, it was a shame to use curling irons
on such hair. IL would curl of its own
accord without heat. You ought to lust
wet il and then rub it dry with your hands.
Then you would get pretty, natural curl.
I'll do it for you now ifyou say so.'
What is the latest fashion for dressing
the hair" is the natural query when the
wave of sympathy has subsidized.
Any fashion that is becoming to the in
dividual. The Pompadour fashions in dress