The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-05-16
FALSE HAIR MARKET.
Breton Peasant Girls and Cinnamon Both
Sell Their Locks TO Dealers.

Sell Their Locks to Dealers.
The quality and color Of the hair were
Subjects of speculative theory for the an
clients. Lark hair was considered indie
atlye of pusiilanimiiy and cowardice, yet
the head of Napoleon the Great was
guiltless of a single curl; while frizzly
hair was thought an indication Of coarse
ness and clumsiness. The French hair
market is very remarkable.
There are wholesale firms in Paris
which send round in the spring to vari-
GUS Breton and other villages. These
are provided with ribbons, silks, laces,
haberdasherv, and cheap jewelry of
various kinds, paving for the maiden's
glossy tresses III these goods or in ready
money. SO far as personal beauty is con-
ccrned, these Breton lasses do not lose
much In losing their hair, for il Is the
fashion III that part of France for the
ma!dens TO wear Il close cap, which en-
lively prevents any part of the hair be-
ing seen. Within the present century
the heads of hair of whole families in
lieVonshlre were let out by the year at
so much rent per roll. An Exeter peri
Wig maker Went round periodically, cut
the locks, and oiled the ground thus left
II stubble to stimulate fresh crop.
The hair is dependent on lis color for
IN some degree on geographical position.
HE Hght-halred races of mankind are
mostly found north of the parallel of
iorty-elght degrees, comprising, so far
as Europe il concerned, England, Bel
gum, North Germany, large portion of
Russia, and the Scandinavian countries.
The black haired races of the sunny
South cease about tortytive degrees,
While between fortytvc and forty eight
degrees there is a sort Of dehatable
land ofbrown hair There are. however,
many exceptions To these limits. for the
Celtic race in ireland and the Norman
race III France have black hair. in spite
of their northern position
The brown hair of middle Europe
seems To be kind of neutral tint; nat
uraliy resulting from the admixture Of
the tiaXon-haIrcd races of the North
and the hlack-haired population of the
South. The black hair imported comes
mostly from Brittany and the South of
France. and IL, as a rule, very fine and
sl!ken. The light hair comes from Ger
many. where il is collected by the
agents off, Dutch company, who make
yearly visits 10 various parts of the Ger
manic states. Some years ago the
hight German hair WAS held in such cs-
TEEN by the hair merchants that they
gladly paid as much as eight shillings
an ounce for small quantities of it-near-
ly double the price OF silver,
\ paragraph appearing in the Evening
standard of January 10 says: The
supply OF hair sent from China to Eu-
rope amounted 10 $1,000 pounds during
the wear 1870. 1t was exported from
Canton, and, if Consul Alabastcr may be
credited, il came from the heads of
'heggars. criminals and dead persons
Those who tryto conceal the rayages Of
time or add To their attractiveness by
wearing false locks. will not be pleased
at the thought that the much-prized
head adornment once formed a pigtail
dependant from the head of a beggar. a
criminal, or dead person. LoRdoH
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