The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-19
GLORY. OF FAIR WOMEN.
HOW TO TRIM AND DRESS YOUR
LOCKS AND KEEP THEM GLOSSY,

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Artists.
(CopvriohtJ
NEW YORK, March 1s.-''But I assure
madam, it will not hurt; just five little
moments. and madam will not know that
her head has been touched with the iron
| BlIsteredi That ugly world Madam thinks
it is the torture, bus l swear to madam sha
will not cry out. Pouf! l screamed myself
with the fright after I was Ill with the
fever, and they brought the iron. But
when they showed to me my poor hairs all
thin and weak. said, 'Oui, oui, scald me
blister me, take away the skinl It's better
to die than not to have the long curls any
more" And so. as madam may believe.
they burned the head and laughed at the
hurt. Madam may see that have my
poor little curls. 30 poor, so dark beside
madams hair Of yellow. But it will die and
force madam to the wig, the hideous wig Of
an old woman. Horriblel VIII madam
let me say this for here In my France
the fisher girl wears a little cap to hide her
hair. Her hair is sacre holy think, you
call it, and besides the men, those foolish
men, they run after the girls and whisper
silly words If by any accident they see the
great braids. And when the luck in the
boat is bad, and the pere aud the frere can
not buy new kerchiefs or sabots for the
fisher girls at home, the little fools cut off
their hair for the wretched franco one sends
from Paris. Then what avail the ke, chiefs
or the sabots after it is whispered all about
'Jeane has no more hairq The girls point
at Jeanne the fingers and the men laugh.
and because the glory is gone say rude
things. All! well, Jeanne, who cannot
think to know that the men love women for
hal and BRIGHT nd -
or ssbots. Jeanne has been we'll punished
And as the deft little French woman with
the masses of cloudy halc touches madam's
nerves with balmy words, her hands stroke
madam's tresseS-the few whsps that have
survived tongs, alkali washes, modish cuts
aud hereditary badness - with prscticed
ease.
The apartments are handsomely furnished,
homelike rooms. Fires burn in the CRATES =,
the latest magazines are strewn about the
table, and we!l-dressed women, whose car
riages are known on Fifth avenue, bend
over them awaiting their turn in the skylit
severely practical chamber through whose
curtains the little French woman NAV be
seen at her art. She is truly an artful per-
son. White capped maids, in reality hair
dressers, too, who are employed to aid the
madam in ner business, pass back and
forth through the rooms; subtle penetrating
odors OF violet, heliotrope and rose subiue
pomades and tonics and Washes used for
scalp massage, while the Parisiennes run
ming voice and cooling lies quite dispel the
irritation with which New York women of
thirty years enter these apartments to ward
of the too swift approaches of age
For it Ia here that scientific treatment of
the hair has cen known not only to tighten
dropping tTessss and awaken life in coma
tOse bulbs, but to coax the fiber from the
helds long bald-men's heads, at that,
which have shown for years in the orchestra
circle bald as billiard ball,
But the French woman's remarks about
the boys, young and old, ~ho sneak to her
rooms during hours reserved for them,
would make, as Kipling says, another
story"
10 due season are ushered into the operating
room, where the couture is pulled to pieces,
aud various little carls, which peep so
alluringly from the Psyche knot or the
stately chignon, are rutnlessly picked ouS
from the scnnty locks which madam
praises.
mot long" che murmurs, with dIspar-
aging eyes CHANGING over the switches and
| front pieces of the demolished structure,
''in few more weeks mad am will find a
new growth like the fuZz on baby's head.
1t is no miracle, o. no! The good saints In
tend all ladies should have hair but she
scalp gets tired, but rub it and am q doc
I bChAt ~ hAAtAl AuG nbiI luuSk kEOUs
Then the doctor Seizes q m&gnifying glass
and example every inch Of TIE head, after
which she messages it for several Minutes
| Next che ruhs lotion into tne pores and en-
| Oiutment down the strands of hair. These
she carefully dries, almost hair by hair /:
| other preparations make IL glossy or fluffy,
as the operator secs flt, and much brushing
and strokinG and singeiug of split slds
evolve the treatment for that day into
| mastery ooiffure,
It il only in serious cases that the madam
tnstSta upon blistSring head. Is Ia not
| good policy, because 1t Is certainly painful
! and extraordinary care must be taken for
many weeks. Yet there is no other way to
remove the thick cuticle from "marble
bald spot" and reach the living bulb be-
meath. Madam sWears by the virtues of
| her process and VOWS that the madam in
the long chair will see the results before
long. And sometimes madam does.
IF she does not if the hair vesicles are
utterly defunct and the lNborious life of a
rtoh society woman has snapped vitality
until it oaunot respond to the skillful touch
of the "masseur OF the scalp" there is an
! other finely appointed suite Of apartments
not block distant where she may betaKe
| herself. "Hairdressing Parlor" is the
legend on the card, but on the first floor one
sees only the wigs, she artificial curls. the
| couture, all ready to be pinned upon the
head. which are the vivacious French wo-
mans abomination. The prize hair of a
Large, newly imported stock" is here
| poor little Jeanne's, whose cropped head is
| bowed now disconsolately beneath the
| jibes OF her companions. The glorious
masses Of it sell for a sum which would de-
| light her peasant heart with kerchief
and sabots for many a day. The
| preparation OF the raw material is SO
careful that a woman may almost be par
| doned for covering her scraggy growth
with soft. clinging silky ourls of naturally
waved gold or brsids of brown. or puffs Of
auburn, as mode dictates the color and the
style.
| Upstairs, where ones own looks are
| lightened with scientific applications of
! peroxide, or changed into a duskY bronze
with ''meZzolina," there is much discussion
as TO the coming manner Of couture.
| We cannot say positively" announced
a maiden whose head was a good adver-
tisement for her establishment, "for we
haven't had any direct word from the
other side. But we are pretty certain that
the hair will be worn very broad and low
down on the side of the head in puffs and
rolls
Rats" groaned a voice. Eyes, rats"
was the reply. 'And the bang will be
pointed In long curl with side pompa-
dour. Perhaps it will be parted through the
middle for another year, with a tiny bang.
Too bad the chignOn is taking the place of
the three empire puffs, one high at the
point of the head and the other two living