The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-07-04
THE HOME.
PROFITS ON HUMAN HAIR.

PhOFITS ON HUMAN HAIR.
The human hair market presents a rather
thrilling spectacle upon market days, when
hair dressers flock from far and near and
wander up and down the streets with large
shining shers in their hands. attached to their
waists 10y great leather band and bride,
writes correspondent. The young girls
who wish to dispose Of theirItresses come out
and offer themselves like lambs at the sacri-
fee, aud kneeling before the formidable
shearers, have their long braids hacked off
with one fell snip of the great scissors.
The largest supply of hair comes from
Switzerland and Germany, and especially
from the French provinces. The country
fairs are attended by agents of merchants In
London. Paris and Vienna. Only at inter
walls, however. is prize like perfect SUIT of
golden hair obtained, and there are orders
ahead in the shops of Paris and London for
all the golden hair that can be obtained in
The next fye years. When a stock of hair Is
collected by travelling agents it is assorted,
washed and cleaned. Then each hair is
drawn through the eye of needle and pol
lshed. When the stock is ready for the mar
ket the nobility is permitted to take the first
A woman's hair may grow to the length of
six feet Mime. Hess, of Paris, refused 5000
francs forhe ''cranial covering" which was
about that measurement Four hundred
hairs of average thickness would cover an
inch of space. The blonde belle has about
10000 hlamentS to comb and brush, while
the red haired beauty has TO be satisfied with
$4,000; the brown haired damsel may have
100000; the black haired but 10000. Few
ladies' consider that they carry some forty or
nifty miles of hair on their heads; the fair
haired may even have to dress seventy miles
of threads of gold every morning. A German
experimentalist has proved that a single hair
will suspend four ounces without breaking,
stretching under the process and contracting
again; But the hair thus heavily weighted
must be dark brown, for blonde hair breaks
down under two and half ounces. No won
der, then, that "beauty eau draw love by a
single haiy."-[New York Star.
WOMAN HANDSOMELY REINFORCED.
Science comes creeping to the front and
sheepishly affirms what woman's intuition
dlscerned centuries ago. Science has been
bending its back over dusty volumes. 1t has
been studying earth and air and water and
disease 1t has reached conclusion whics
woman had practically endorsed since the be-
ginning. to-wit: That spring housekeeping
Is necessary to health: that to this yearly
regeneration of the household gods is due the
superior health and strength of civilized
nations. Men hate house-cleaning because
they are dull creatures and have only re-
gard for their present dignity 1t gals
man 10 drink cold tea and eat cold chop
from the corner of the mantel or the kitchen
pantry. man has no imagination, his soul
cannot override the kitchen furniture in the
front hall. or bars Of soap, rusty nails and
tack hammers on his library table, and
picture to himself the splendor of the after
glow But science now proclaims that dan
gerous disease germs, wicked and infinitesi-
NAL, Turk about the habitati0ns of man, dan
gers for which there is no remedy save soap
and alkali and water and woman with a
towel ON her head and dust broom in her
hand. Science has silenced man L Washing
ton r0st