The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-01
RLEAcHEp BLONDES.


ginal Color.
From the Baltimore Herald.
ssWhat has become of the blonde
Well. I'll tell you," said young lady the
other dav. 'you see, it isn't fashionable ary
more. We used to all think that golden
hair was beautiful and poetical, and all that.
hut there got to be so much of it, and so
much of it that wasn't golden but straw
color. that all the beauty and poetry has
Aed It's lots of trouble, too. Unless you're
an adept at the art of 'hlondning,' the
color will get on in streaEs so that any one
can easily see what IS the matter with IT.
Rut the worst of all is when one desires to
0uit the use of the 'blondine' and let the
natural color of the hair come back. 1t
can't be DONE 1t is very easy to color the
hair. but it is different thing to uncolor it.
II YOU remember, few years ago when it
was all the rage, my hair was as yellow as
anyboiy's. Well, Pm getting it back to its
old color now, and you can rest assured I'll
never NEEDLE with it again-not If it is a
thousand times the fashion,"
us all the golden hair we see artificialW
was asked.
"There may be some that is natural, but
very little l don't know of any myself.
WHY even the natural blondes use regular
blondine material to make it brighter-so
they're only 'bleached blondes after all"
This seemed to be the opinion Of all the
Young ladies questioned on the sub ect and
most of them spoke from experience. They
were nearly all recovering or trying to re-
cover from what they frankly termed their
folly, and spoke with undisguised contempt
of the ''bleached blondes as a class al
though considerable pity was expressed for
individual victims of the fad The
writer had the good fortune to attend an ex-
perience meeting, in which the narrators
had no hesitancy in speaking freely of the
foo+e If tha Tnattar One the vOunp
ladies present had almost entirely recovered
from the bleaching process, and the other
was congratulating herself that she was
making as rapid strides as possible in the
same direction.
II was vet a schoolgirl, :" said the former
Young lady, "when first began to blond
me- | learned somehow or other that by
mixing 10 cents worth of peroxide of hy-
drogen and nickel's worth of ammonia |
could obtain preparation that would turn
my hair from the dark brown that it WAS to
a lovely blonde. All the girls wanted to be
blondes then and l decided to effect the
transformation il possible [ bought he
ingredients, made the necessary prep ration
and applied it secretly. 1t worked like q
charm. After few applications, was au
object of envy to every girl in school, and
hundreds were the prayers and entreaties
received from my friends to let them into
the secret. | presume | ught about l0(
the art, and | was looked upon by all as
sort of benefactor and received their warm
est thanks. The most of them have found
out what fools we all were, and guess they
are ready now to shower anything but
blessings on my he d. OF course, | didn't
know what the result was ing to be, or
certainly wouldn't have suffered so much
myself
"Oh! don't know about that" broke in
the other young lady, II guess I was one OF
your first pupils. and l am sure don't
blame you so much. 1t was regular war
4 the dark against the light, and we were on
u the wrong side and have to acknowledge
our defeat now, but we've gained lots of ex-
q perience, and | shouldn't wonder if we were
better for it after all "
n "That's true. too,' said the first young
lady, land most of those who began bondin-
ing with US, are like us trying to get their
81 hair back to it's original color, a d | guess
most of them are coming out all right
hope so, anyway. There is a new lot OF
II beached blondes in the field now made up OF
later beginners. The thing is so much
trouble, the novelty soon wears off aud a
Fl person soon wishes she we're through
FL with it.n
Ell Both young ladies then related a number
ri Of "reminiscences of blondinng parties A
FL dozen or so would arrange for these parties
~ and as soon as school was dismissed they
Isl would repair to the home Of one of their
number, get room, and then the work
|# would begin.
Ell 81 learned from experience" said the
I'll young lady who acted as teacher, IAN
nj gave the others points as they came to me-
HI The first thing to do was to prepare the
compound of peroxide Of hydrogen and
ammonia. We usually made this in fin.
III ger-bow The girl who was to be operated
Ell on took her seat in a straight-backed chair
so placed that the light would fall on hel
hair properly. The hair was then carefully
washed and combed out straight aud thor
oughly dried. Much of the success Of the
experiment depended on the preliminary
steps. The next thing was to put on the
'blondine This should be done with a tooth
brush. Some lazy people use hair brush,
but the application can't be made properly
that way. Others simply wash the head il
bowl of the mixture This is the most
slovenly way of all and any one can de-
tect the sham when it is done that way.
The color gets on in stre'lks and Sickly
greenlsh tiDge is given that is perfectly
hideous. The toothbrush, though, does the
work thoroughly. With it the hair is gone
over carefully, furrow by furrow, from the
roots TO the tip This is the only way TO dc
II artlstlcally. It's a little tedious, but then
you know, there Is no II 9 in doing it at al
unless you're going to do it right. After the
Ialr mas been ouce blondined, the work
uoesnt end there by any means. The haiI
must be washed twice a week; it should be
Done every morning. Blondined hair gets
urty very eailv, and nothing looks SC
ugly as when it gets in that condition. The
only way 10 prevent THIS is to wash it, and Of
course when this is done so frequently the
natural OIL of the hair is entirely removed
aud the hair becomes stiff and harsh, and
rs very difficult to give it a natural gloss
Another Important thing to be observed
10 get the right shade. A girl who is
naturally inclined to be blonde need ouly
make one application, but six or seven are
TTequlred to change good brown to blonde
ZEN TOO, as the hair grows it must be
INSTANTLY touched up at the roots. If il
W. ~ L, The appearance Of dirty scalp is given.
"uen number of applications have to be
naug II Is necessary TO let the hair get COM
teIey dry after each one. After GER
t tblu unit IN Is reached quantity has no fur.
but, you know" said the second young
s auy' breaking in, peroxide of hydrogen
49, ammonia is not the best bondine by
10y means The best blondine is cham
a1sue and the best Of all the good times
'Tr mad think have had the most fun at
eouNduIhpagne blondining party. The blond
a4o so'u by hair dealers and dyers is usually
MAI la payne solution. It's rather too ex-
bS'Ve Tor most girls pin money, and
tSros never attended more than two or
sucn parties. But they've lots Of fun,
1au tell you. Won see Won hava 10 driu Y