The Red Cloud chief., 1888-07-27
Il H~AlR.oRooMER

THE HAiR.oRooMER
A Novel oee.peessa Crsessa ~ WIas.
Awake New YRk We0aa.
Anew York SHa reporter Was introduced
BY . friend, The ether day, 70 . lady who
was earning . very comfortable livelihood
- . hair-groomer.
I'm not ahair-dresser," she said, "Tms
hair1groomeE I don't do up tho hair ss
~. I only comb the hair aAd give Il thaS
general attention which every Woman's hair
demands two or three times . wool. There
are lots Of women in tho city who aFe in
this business and who would scorn 70 call
themselves professional hair-dressers."
She was IN elderly lady, tall and slender.
and dressed neatly and with excellent taste
in black. Her manner were gentle and 70
fined. Her face had tho dark, quiet look
seen on the face Of invalids or Of women
who have had . good deal Of suffering. She
was living in . respectable clearinghouse
ON West Twenty-fourth street.
IL was cornered, and I had to do it," sho
said. 81 had to earn my living suddenly,
and the only way I could think Of to do 30 At
my age was to care for women's hair. Ny
mother was for years an invalid. She had
beautiful hair, and it used to soothe and quiet
her to have me comb her hair and stroke it
softly. In this way I learned TO care for tho
hair, especially that Of nervous women.
There are . great many women, Of course,
of the so-called upper classes who can't at
ford to keep maids, and yet who want their
hair cared for regularly. They don't like to
have professional hair-dressers around
them, either. 1t is to such women Hook for
my patronage.
"What do I do to the haira Well, first
I rub it dry with q soft and then with .
hard brush. I don't put q lot Of water and
cleaning stuff upon the halr at first as
some do, but after I have the dandruR all
out, l wet the hair with q simple solution
which I know to be effective and not dele
FERROUS; then I rub and brush the hair dry
again. Next comes the trimming, I pull out
the gray hairs n by one, taking care to
pull them so that the scalp is not lacerated
and the hair cells themselves destroyed.
There is q great art in pulling out hairs.
You must pull them in the direction in which
they lie in the scalp just as you would .
silver Of wood from your hand, in the direc-
ton in which it entered. Men or women
can't pull out their gray hairs themselves,
for it is utterly impossible for them to see
that they arc pulling the hairs out on tho
proper slant. OF course, you know that
people are very touchy ON tho subject Of
gray hairs in their heads. It makes .
woman have the blues for q week when her
first gray hairs come. Now, when gray
hairs are the result Of age I never NEEDLE
with them; the only thing to do is to let
them come. But they arc often the re-
suit Of sickness, OF some other little
trouble, and it is then often possible
to prevent their coming. Badness it
to be doctored in just the same way. lean
never cure, though, and nobody can cure the
badness Of people. like accountants and
others, accustomed to work all day with tho
glare and heat of gaslights or electric lights
beating down upon their heads. In their
cases the hair cells have been literally
burnt out.
well, finally I trim the hair. I cut each
individual hair separately so as to make it
even with the others. When the hair is
gathered up in the hand and cut square
across in q lump, as it werc, with the scis-
sOrs. the Struggling hairs are not reached.
The result is only to make the hair shorter
and quite as uneven IS before. Then l part
the hair simply and do it up plainly As I
told you, If women want their hair o up
in any of the fancy styles they mustn't COMO
to see me.
How much does it pay ne! Well, I gen.
orally think ! ought to get n dollar at least
each time l visit a lady's house. If . lady
lives q great way up town and it takes me
all the afternoon or morning to 60 up ard
sec her, l a more money, of course.
And, on the contrary, when ~ or three
patrons live near each other, why, l can mod
crate the price q little to each one. 1t is an
humble way of getting a living, l know, but
it is respectable, and l shall stick to it,"
SNAKES ~ PIECES.
A Serpent That JOINED Itself Together
After I:einS Cut in Two.
Persons "ho never saw q joint snake
are naturally mcredulous as to the fac. Of
their existence. The observation OF the
writer and the killing Of four or five Of the
critters in his life has removed all
doubts, so far as be- is concerned. says the
Corinth 'sIiss.) H7a,d. The only open
question remaining is: Do the disiointed
snakes unite the pieces and 1--we again!
This is by many persons asserted, and yet
by as many disputed. Tao uniting is just
as reasonable as the designating. IL is tho
tail, which constitutes about two-thirds Of
the animal, and not the body proper that
disjoints. An old darkey whom We inter-
viewed SAID:
"Iknoyvs they gets together again. for I
killed the tail of one. left in little short
pieces; the head got away, and when got
back TO the place the head had gathered all
the pieces together and gone OF" John
Patterson, Il very intelligent colored man,
testified more directly to the point. He
said: II know they get together again. I
have watched them: the head and body
just back Up TO the pieces and hltches them
Ike coupling cars" Being closely cross
question. he said: "Thc snake searched
abo-t in the grass TIL it found the pieces,
then turned its tail end TO the piece and
bent its head back and hitciied the piece on:
then gathered up the other pieces the same
SUNDAY-sCNoOL TEACHER Tommy, do
you know what the meaning Of Amen
TOmmy-sS YeS'm ira whit The mo-