Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-16
BARRIERS OF PARIS.
THEY HAVE SOME REAL ToNsoR1AI
ARTISTS IN FRANCE.
An Intelligent Glass Who Have an Acad-
envy of Their Own-Good Wages
and Plenty of Fun.

from two to fifteen employees, who shave,
cut hair. shampoo, friction and frizzle wigs,
and also endeayor to sell various articles
for dyeing the hair, penciling the eye,
brows, coloring the cheeks or powdering
the head and face. As is almost uniyer-
sally the case with men of his calling the
Partisan Figaro is generally very commune
cative and has all kinds of tales to tell
and news to relate while engaged in his
occupations The coifeurs employed at the
fine establishments on the principal boule-
yards, whose customers have often high
political or financial standing, are gener-
ally we'll posted with information relating
to the Bourse or the Chamber OF Deputies.
In the course of their chat they may let
ont a valuable secret that has been told to
them by client in a moment of confidence
inspired by the operation Of shampoo
or a friction; for gentlemen and even
ladies are apt to treat their coiffeur as a
familiar. and affairs of state, money specn-
lations and racing tips have frequently
been diyulged in the boudoir of the wife
q
fnancier. In other parts of Paris the To-
quacious barber seeks to entertain his Gus
toner with more trivial subjects of CONVEX
sation, being careful to avoid the danger
GUS shoals of politics, the discussion of
which might lead to disputes among his
clients and to the eventual loss Of their
custom.
OF late the employees have become very
strong in sporting matters, and have gen.
orally something very good for the French
Derby, the Grand Prize of Paris, or some
great forthcoming race. To their lingual
facilities they often add an enthusiastic
taste for dancing, and furnish a strong
contingent at the sales de ddnse, to which
they are admitted gratuitously. Formerly,
in the days, or rather the nights, of the
Jardin Mabille and the Chateau des Fleurs,
when the famous cdRcan was more in vogue
than it is at present, they figured conspic-
uously in that peculiar photographic ex-
hibition, to the amusement and delight Of
the English and American visitors who
used to go to these resorts sub rosa. much
as the people in the good old days of
George III. and even during portion ofthe
reign of Queen Victoria, were wont to visit
Vauxhall on one side of the Thames and
Cremorne Gardens on the other. Times
have changed, and now that Mabille and
the Chateau DIES Fleurs no longer exist
the useful hairdressers who delight ID
dancing wend their way to the Elysee-
Montmartre or the Moulin Rouge, where
they display their pedal agility in the
evening after the termination of their
manual performances during the daytime.
The business of the fashionable Partisan
hairdresser has become one of the first i'm
portance, especially as it concerns ladies in
the rank of high life. OF the 1000 Golf
feurs in the French capital there are about
forty whose tastes and experience in the
capillary art particularly qualify them for
dressing grand ladies' heads for balls,
soirees, the opera and weddings. These
artists-for artists they certainly must De
considered-study the personal peculiari-
ties of the subjects they have to treat, and
are bound by no stringent rules of fashion.
The judiciops placing Of flower or bit
of lace will often lend an extra charm to
the expression of blonde or a brunette
which she could never have succeeded in
obtaining if she had operated with her
own hands or confded herself to those
of her femme de ckambre OF course, such
talent is literally remunerated, especially
when ladies are waited upon at their own
homes. During the second empire, when
fetes were frequently given at the TuillerieS
and at the Hotel de Vile, it was no I'M
common occurrence for capillary artist
in vogue to earn as much as 100 francs In
one evening, independently of the profit
obtainable from the supply of lace, flowers,
feathers, etc. Such talented coiieurs were
then and are still called Grtistes orpdmea-
tistes, and are looked up to by their infe-
rior colleagues In the aristocracy of their
profession. In the wealthy quarters of
Paris professional display is also exhibited
TO a great extent in the shops of several
of the most important coifeurs, where adj
mirable and very costly figures IN wax,
coifed and dressed in many styles and so
attractive as to draw the interested atten-
ton of passers-by, are permanent illustra-
tions of the actual fashions and of the
talent of the dresser.
The French Academy, the Academy OF
Music (the Grand OPERA and the Acad-
emy of Fine Arts are the three principal
academies OF Paris The Academic de
Couture is assuredly not so well known
especially to strangers. But 1t has, never
theless, existed for many years, and pos
sesses among its members many highly
intelligent professionals, who make con
slant study Of everything connected with
the ornamentation of the female head
The academy encourages young hairdres
sers by annual public competitions, fol
which it gives money prizes and diplomas
much esteemed by their poSsessors, ant
handsomely illustrated Journal is pub
hshed bi-monthly, recording any progress
that may be made in the peculiarly Paris
ian art which may fairly be said to exer
else its influence throughout the entire
world. The object of the editors Of this
journal is to do all that is possible to assis
art in its struggle to conceal the inroads 0
nature upon the male and female head ant
face, and many are the wrinkles concealed
by the modern undulated hair front:
which procure a semblance OF juyenilit.
to those who have passed the rubicon o
youth.
In addition to the academy there exist
a syndicate of the operatives, which unite
its efforts to those Of the academy for tn
propagation Of every PROGRESS. The re
ceipts obtained from the direct contribu
tions of the members of the syndicate an
from other sources are devoted 10 mutua
fund for the relief of distress in case c
want of employment or sickness. In
President of the academy states ths
there is no other corporation IN Par
wherein so much solidarity and unto
exist, and in which the various classes
talent and age accord so well with eae
other. From the apprentice upwar
through the rank and file OF tn
ordinary operator to the heads
the profession the greatest cordiallt
reigns, united to the desire, by constant an
delicate little attentions to the clients,
give satisfaction to all who require the use
full services of Partisan coiffeur. Th
public is not unmindfnl of sue
little attentions, and, though it
the custom 10 give small Po9r6o'l
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