River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-10-18
WIGS AND w G-WEARERS.
raise Hair as an Ornament to Man and
staple on the Market.

WIGS AND W G-WEARERS.
False Hair as an Ornament to Man and
Staple on the Market.
Wigs and waves are great inventions.
They supply deficiencies; they correct
natures delinquencies Nothing makes
or mars personal beauty like a fine head
OF hair or the lack of it.
In these days badness is common as
20 be almost fashionable. and wigs are
not commonly worn by men. Now and
then some unfortunate is compelled to
incorporate an artificial head-cOvering
into his regular wardrobe, but as long
as there is a passable fringe around his
man avoids a wig. Masculine wigs are
not ordinarily deceptive, and they are
warm and difficult to keep in place.
Since il has become the fashion to crop
the natural hair so short that the scalp
is plainly visible it is doubly hard to
wear a wig at all calculated to mislead
any but near-sighted and unobservant
people.
BY common consent it has always
been the custom to supply those need
ing a substitute for natures hirsute
adornment with curly wigs. 1t was a
polite fiction to presume that the nat
ural hair, il there had been any, would
be at least wavy. If man lost hair
as wiry and as full of ''prongy" effects
as that of the famous Mr.. Pancks in
Little Dorrit," he procured a wig of
luxuriant curls. With constant wear
these curls became matted together in
corrugated ringlets. Nowadays wigs
are much more natural, especially at
the parting of the hair. Instead of a
coarse muslin streak there is now a
transparent canvas that shows the
scalp.
The half wigs, once affected by old
men of proud but economical spirit,
have happily disappeared. A few
years ago there was an old minister
who wore sort of tuft on the crown
Of his head. The tuft did not in the
least match the gray hair with which
1t mingled, and when his head rose
above the pulpit it looked as if his
hair had been made from a skein of
chinchilla worsted. Whenever he be-
came interested in warning his congre-
cation away from the broad path that
leads to destruction the tuft of hair
invariably slid over one ear, and his
bald head became an unconscious lie
lustratiOn of a slippery place and the
unexpectedness with which the appar-
emily permanent slid down-hill.
The wave, which used to be known
as false front, il boon to women
and is very popular, especially in sum-
mer. At the seaside it is invaluable.
After a dip into the salt sea the hair
becomes as sticky and stubborn as an
Esquimau's, and the naturally curly
wave is oftentimes the only salvation
for a bellies reputation for beauty.
Moreover, the wave, when further
supplemented by what is Familiarity
known as a switch enables a girl to
choose any shade of hair without re-
gard to the natural hue of her own
locks. After the white-horse craze
many Titan blondes were compelled
to adopt waves and switches of a SOM
Der tint as a means of self-defease
against the unwelcome scrutiny of the
crowds upon the streets.
But the artificial bang is most ap-
preciated by the army of working
women who have neither the time to
imprison their hair in curl-papers at
night nor the patience to SINCE it with
hot iron IN the morning. 1t saves
time to be able to pin on a bang ready
crimped and reposing among the hair
brushes on ones bureau, and until it
becomes mussed it is perfectly salts
factory.
OF course. waves vary widely in
beauty and naturalness. Some of them
are very costly, and range in price from
s. to $l5. While wealthy women do
not grudge any sum expended to con-
ceal the ravages OF time or dampness,
working women are content to buy
their bangs at bargains.
1t is pity that all waves and wig
lets become in time what is colloquial-
IL called ''ratty." "Ratty' is word
more descriptive than elegant. an is
derivation is lost in obscurity. 1t has
no connection, however, with the
pestiferous rodent. Waves become
'ratty" or dead-looking very soon.
Then the fashionable dame sends hers
to the hair-dresser and the business
woman takes hers between her teeth
women are never too fastidious to hold
their false hair with their teeth
combs. and puts it up in papers. -Chi-
cdgo Nelcs.