Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-09
BANGS AND DANGERS.
inducements Held Out 10 Those Who
Are Thinking of Learning
THE ART OF DRESSING THE HAIR.
Not as Much Money in the Business as is
Sometimes Supposed.
EXCEPT FOR THE OWNERS OF SHOPS

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"Hello, Louise, what the matter with
your hair2 Your bangs are perfect
fright" was the greeting given charming
young bride by her newly-made husband
the other evening at their lovely residence
in the East End.
"Been to the hair-dresser's and she clipped
it too close; it'll be all right in couple of
weeks"
Probably so, but it's deucedly unbe-
coming" remarked the young husband,
obviously. "How did it happen?I
81 really don't know. 1t was the same
woman who has clipped my hair for some
time, and always satisfactorily, but-oh,
well. mistakes will happen in the best reg
ulated families, am not inclined to CEN
sure as severely now as I was an hour ago.
Sort of getting used to 1t, I suppose.
"Well, never will get used to it, con-
tinued the critic. "You look like"
s'There, Charles; don't, please. You know
can stand anything better than to be made
fun Of"
"well, Louise, I'll be good, but it's SO
shockingly-"
"Charles~
lizard to be good under the circum-
stances, I was going to say" was the in
ocent rejoinder of Charles, who ran his
hand through handsome pompadour with
a satisfied expression, as he surveyed it and
his own manly form in the square French
mirror surmounting the dressing case.
''Never mind. You may be the victim Of
an over-zealous pair of scissors sometime,
too, was the warning given by the pretty
wife, and which proved prophecy in this
case, as with the speed retribution can at
tain when put to the mettle, Charles arrived
at home later in the evening, with his
glorious pompadour the pride of his heart
aud the eliminating point of his beauty,
representing church steeple in the way it
was trimmed. Before removing his hat,
however, he extended his hand to his little
wife, and said: "Girlie, it was cruel of me
to make sport of you this evening. You
wouldn't do that with me, would you?"
A FoRGIvING SPIRIT.
mo, Charles, wouldn't; but that's
all right" in iorgiving tone.
''Well, then, see here. Just look at the
awful cut have on my hair-but shake
hands again, that we won't say one word to
each other regarding our shorn locks"
The little wife gave one glance of regret
at the place where the hair used to flourish,
and then. COMPRISING her lips to prevent
the smile that the effect provoked, by shak-
ing hands sealed the compact proposed by
her liege-lord. But the joke was too good.
She didn't say one word TO him: she did.
however, to several of his acquaintances,
and before the week was over she was more
than even, as each member of the club
greeted him with: "Hello. Charles, what's
the matter with your hair?"
And Charles has vowed vengeance upon
hair cutters and hairdressers in general, as
his latest experience with them has cost him
any number of cigars, beside modification
by the wholesale.
Such incidents without the amusing
termination, however, are very common, and
many lady spends time vainly before her
mirror trying to coax the ever-popular bang
into little more length, or at least arrange
it in somr way so that the shortness thereof
will be less apparent alter a visit to hair
dresser.
"And why is it sop was asked a young
man whose mission it is just at present to
look out for the hair of the quality" in
Pittsburg.
Generally the result Of incompetent per-
sons, though occasionally even a very skill
full artist will make misscut To learn
the trade properly requires about three
years time, and most OF the girls who 90
into the business spend three months learn
ing. Some difference, you see, and the dear
public must suffer until the amateurishness
Of hoc
of. She simply learns her trade by
PRACTICING ON HUMANITY
at large. And, really, the salaries given
hairdressers do not warrant spending so
yery much time in learning the trade nor
do they invite real energetic, intelligent |
people, as rule, though to be success one
must be considerable of an artist, must note |
the contour OF the head and face, the shape |
of the forehead, and any number of little |
points, that the arrangement of the hair and |
the style and shape of the bang may be be- |
coming.
''The shampooing. too, is no easy matter,
for beside cleaning the hair properly. the |
drying must be done so thoroughly that not j
a particle of cold may result from the wash,
aud so deftly that not one thread of the en-
tire suit of hair will be broken. The cut
ting, dressing and sham looing. though, are
easy, compared to the wig-making and arti- |
fetal hair work that is included in the |
knowledge of frst-class workman. In |
this work. principally. is the three years
spent that in the old country fits one to |
commence operations upon defenseless |
public as hair dresser, and in it are all the |
fine points learned.
"Theater makeup, too, is part of a gen:
uine artists stock in trade, and to success
fully put on the paint and powder is consid- |
cred absolutely necessary. Yet, with all |
this, man or woman, no matter how skill |
ful, rarely receives more than S25 week,
while the scale is generally from ST up to |
SIS. Immense mon.y in the business,
though, to the proprietor of an establish |