Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-07-19
TRYING TO BE PRETTY
Foolish and Ingenious Prac tices
of Many Women.
Bleaching the Hair to Give It Fash
ionable Shade-Many Devices Re-
sorted To by the Sex-SOms
Painful Results.

"Can get my hair bleached here?'
/ asked on entering a well-knOwn Chi
cago hair-dresser's establishment.
- Certainly" said the smiling at
tendant What color do you wish?'
Il am rather undecided between a
blonde and the new auburn shade" l
replied, un blushingly.
You had better decide in favor of
the red, That is the shade just now,
and your hair would take it SPLEEN
didly. l wouldn' have to touch the
ends at all, just here next the SCALP,
where it's so dark"
How many applications would be
necessarily
'You could do with two, l should
say. OF course some ladies have to
have great many more. I'm give
you two good applications for five dol
lars"
"Do you do much of this sort of
work?''
"Oh, yes! Nine out of every ten
customers have their hair regularly
touched up"
Don't you consider it dangerous?"
swell, I've had my hair Redeemed
for six years now. and it hasn't hurt
me" she said, smilingly. There's not
SO much risk with the red dye as with
the extreme blonde"
Can dark hair be bleached white?''
Not on the head-at least not in
this country. have heard it could be
done in Paris, and lady buyer for
one of our large dry-goods firms is
going to try and discover the secret for
me when next she goes abroad"
TO redden very dark hair would
require great deal of work, l fancy?"
Yes. indeed. have made as many
as three applications in day on one
head. but that tires out both the GUS
toner and myself. Generally the lady
prefers to take it gradually, as it isn't
so noticeable. l have REDEEMED hair
as black as this" pointing to coal
black wig; lit makes lovely Titan
red. The lady in question has blue
eyes, with black lashes and brows, and
the combination is beautiful and strik-
ing"
l said l would think it over and
would call again. While l sat in an
other hair-dresser's shop, waiting for
my hair to dry. idly watched little
woman through glass partition as she
made up her face. She rubbed her en-
tire face with some fine white powder
until she looked like clown at the
pantomime; then she took a chamois
skin and carefully rubbed and smoothed
1t until only the suspion of the powder
was visible. Next she took a small
hair Toothbrush. and dipping it daintily
into a box OF rouge proceeded to red
den her cheeks This was then care
fully toned down with another dash of
white Then the eyes. She penciled
her brows and drew black lines close up
to the under lash. Then daintily wet
ting her finger she drew it over her
eyebrows. the moisture emphasizing as
1t were the blackening process. Then
she took hand-glass and regarded
herself from all points of the COM
pass The result evidently was salts
tsfactory- for she came out with a
gratifed smile She had gone in the
little room a dark-skinned, rather tai
low-faced person; she emerged with the
pink and white complexion that should
belong to radiant blonde. This proc
ess had been gone through with in
plain view of the rest of the people in
the room and with a serious and BUSH
ness-like air that vas astonishing.
do you have much of that sort of
thing done here?" I asked the young
woman who approached me and took
mp my hair to see IL it was quite dry.
~Oh. yes" she answered, in the
most matter-of-fact way. Lots of
ladies come in here and have their
faces made up. All the young ladies
from mentioning one of the most
prominent dry-goods stores in the city
and some of them look just beau
tiful. Yon ought to just let me fix you
mp now. You'd look SO lovely you
wouldn't know yourself"