The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-02-07
SECRETS OF A HAIRpREssER.
He Chats About His Patrons and Their
Fads-Efects of Elondine.


"But of all mistaken things that
people do for their hair the most IN
furious to the cuticle of the scalp is
the use of the celluloid comb" said the
other day ioquacious hairdresser,
who trims and curls, twists and pulls
the locks of Chicago's most aristocratic
citizens in dingy little apartment at
the rear of a State street kld-gloye
store. at may surprise you, he con-
tinued, s.but many cases of pimples on
the scalp result from using cenulold-
| have known BARRIERS who from the
constant handling of celluloid brushes
and combs have contracted disease
of the skin on the palm of the hand.
You see, celluloid is a composition con-
tanning nitric acid, than which nothing
worse can be found for the skin. A
rubber comb is not desirable either,
since it generates, from the friction
with the hair, an electricity that
causes the hair to snap and break. 1t
also has tendency to straighten ones
locks, which in these days of pluff-
mess and curls, is not appreciated. The
best comb for constant use is one of
ivory or horn.
The best hairpins are of tortoise she'll
or the English imported goods of steel
we'll japanned.
Il can nearly always Judge of a
woman's character by the condition of
her hairpins. Now, just look at this
one rescued lady's hair from yes
terday''-picking up an affair that was
bent and twisted in every direction.
THAT woman is of a changeable mind,
likely to fly off at tangent at most
unexpected times; she is also nervously
constituted and not by any means
exact or neat Flows this one?"
holding UP for inspection another
with the two points so far apart it
was nearly a straight wire. ''Now
that woman was broadminded, and
not sensitive to small physical ails
for had she been so, she never could
have endured the agony a hairpin in
that condition must have givan her.
land now I'll answer your question
as to what is a good shampoo. The
best preparation for that purpose is no
preparation at all, but just "a simple
egg, nothing with it; first rub on the
white, rinse, then the yelk, rinse
thoroughly again.
Do l always use it? No; for some it
would take six eggs for one washing,
| and that at present means 10 cents,
and only get IS. Some of my regular
patrons prefer it, so do | since they
are willing to pay extra the price of
the eggs used. Whatever you use
don't let it be ammonia. 1t is a mis-
taken idea that ammonia is beneficial to
the hair; it is just the opposite, and
possesses but one point in its favor for
| that purpose, that it is powerfully
! cleansing.
1.-The most particular persons as re-
| CARDS the dressing of their hair are
milliners first, then actresses. then
| good looking saleswomen, then men,
| though men as rule are more reason
able than women, as they don't expect
you to accomplish for them impossi-
bilitiesn
What sort of man visits a pro-
fessional hair-dresser l should like to
| know?"
| "Many men come to me to nave
their front lock twisted around the
curling iron. One of my most fire..
| quent visitors is a prominent South
Side physician whose beautiful hair is
nearly snow white. Another is q
young fellow, quite dude, whose hail
| | 90 over once week, shampoo, treat
to bath of peroxide, and curl"
us blondine injurious to the harp
| Eyes, in ninety-nine cases out of 100
Peroxide of hydrogen, which is the
chemical name for blondine, auburne
/ 2 l,,,., n
the individual. 1t breaks the hair, DIES
troys the enamel, and in time pene
trates the scalp causing severe head
aches, and, if persistently applied
| brings on softening of the brain. The
| hundredth person may use peroxide
with safety, for if the hair is oily, The
color desired only several shades light
er than the natural one, and hair is al.
| ways washed IN cold water, no bad
| effects may result. Blondined hair,
however, is only becoming to those
possessing youth and eyes of uncer.
tain color: for, talk all you will of the
beauty of dark-eyed blondes, if the hair
is artificially lightened it gives an APP.
pearance of age and loudness rather
undesirable
SIS it true that many women who
had their hair cut short are now wear.
ing wigs?"
''Not at all, for in spite of all that's
said against short hair | advocate the
style in many cases. 1t is the health
lest for the head, the easiest to dress
and keep clean, and more often than
not the most becoming in style. A
woman over so, unless belonging to
the stage, where footlights and make
up help her out, should not affect short
hair, for though adding to youthful
ness of the face before that of age, it
detracts after that period not only
from faces youth. but also from
dignity of expression. Chicago Iri-
6tt7ae.