The morning times., 1895-12-29
HIIR TELLS CHARACTER
Red Headed Washington Women
Are Smart But Hot Tempered.
WHAT MAKES WHITE LOCKS
The Manor Woman With Fine. Light
mate-American Women Are Care
less About the Most Important Fea-
ture of Their Toilet.

dresser, "but she don't yet know how to
care for re hair. She will make her fine
toilet Of ze elegant costume a n Ze costly
diamonds a n zen think she is ready for
re ball. But she forget too often her hair"
Then monsieur sat down and told q
Times reporter all about Washington people
who have their hair dressed. Monsieur
Is well versed in his study because he is now
a middle-aged man, and he began to study
the hair and scalp whe d he was O 14-year-
old boy In sunny France. He IL happy be-
cause he is deeply interested his profes
sion and because his business is good, for
he draws from the largest and best class
OF hair-dresser patrons n the city.
.Yes, viii some day write a book"
said he, "for ] have long studied ze scalp
and its dowDy coating. ] VIII show pic
lures OF re hair ven 1t is diseased an ven
1t is veil, an tell how to keep 1t nice"
Then he clipped some hairs from the re-
porter s head and placed them under strong
microscope, where they resembled great
straws OF some brownish, transparent color
with little>cells all along like an elongated
section of houeycomb. Then he placed a dis
eased hair under the glass. The hair had
been clipped from the head of 4 person ad-
dicted to the use OF mercury, and the poison
had left the hirsute thread q mere chain Of
grayish matter that resembled a decayed
bone.
LOOKED LIKE A POST.
A piece OF the scalp skin with hair grow
ing down looked beneath the microscope
like post stuck in a portion of transparent
ground. A coil of hair that, though single
hair and though the coil was not over
quarter OF IN inch in diameter, looked like
well-developed snake, was slid under the
magnifying glass.
"Zat is hair from re head OF person
who lives in &c country an only washes ze
hair vonce IN six months or so," explained
monsieur.
Great spots appeared along the sides of
the hair. like windows Ia a distant tene-
ment house.
The hair dresser repeated that It is tbs
height of impropriety TO lavishly prepare
for some social function and neglect the
hair, though, said he, 1t is very often done
In this country. There Is one weil-known
society woman In Washington who realizes
that fact just as much as monsieur.
my table never looks well," says she.
''if the guests seat themselves around it and
some one has neglected her hair. / can
tell in a second whether hair-dresser has
been there or not, and believe the gentle.
men can, too"
1t too often happens, the hair.fresser ex.
planned, that the lady leaves the subject
OF her hair to her maid. She will depend
on her colored servant, ma ybe one that has
been in her service a score OF years, to tell
whether .'it looks right" After the maid
has put In her best-efforts, and stuck a
brilliant rose behind the diamond tiara.
she will tell her lady SO, and the latter is
gratified.
.'If ze Americans were as careful with
the hair as re French people" said the ar
tist, "it would take thirty hair-iressers to
where there is now one. No lady would
link of going to reception or dinner
without visiting her hair-dresser, just like
her husband visits ze barber. But our
customers are on ze increase. We teach re
maid how to do 1t well enough for every
day, an on big occasions zhey come to ze
hair-lresser."
"Isit true tn at you can antellcharacter by the
hair?''
..Ah, yes, MOO; That Is, you can some-
times, but zhen, not always. There are
exceptions. Here's what L do know. Ze
homely lady is much harder TO please, no
difference what color be her hair, zhan 20
pretty woman. She knows That she has
much to lose and leetle to gain Zhen
Invariably spoiled or humored young lady
is difficult to please.
CHANGE THE COLOR
81 find. too, Eat re blonde-haired young
| woman almost always wants TO change Ze
color OF re hair. She wants IL lighter or
| darker. One of my lady customers has no
| faith In blonde girls. She says, Don't trust
her. My experience has taught me Eat she
with re almost colorless, ashy, blonde hair
| is more tmpulsive than re other girls. She
| is loving an tickle an very good company
while zey like you, but zheir love is fleet
| ing"
| As rule red hair is Indicative of per-
| son either very good or very bad, explained
| xpIth fine hair
| generally very smart and determined, and
| can do about anything they attempt. They
| are well.nIannered and can talk and charm,
| but they are irritable, quarrelsome ana
| selfish. Too much dependence should not
| be put In them, 1t is contended by the hair
| dressers. Those who have rich, dark-red
| hair have aniiable dispositions.
| Dark-brown hair, said monsieur, is a
sign of a loyal, affectioDate disposition.
4 There is lots of sentiment In the head under
| it, and there is generally big, warm heart
/ In the bosom below. Enjoyment and suffer
ing are OF proportionate keenness. A man OF
| woman with fine light or bro wn hair makes
/ the best husband or wife, is the advice given
| to spouse hunters and are almost always
| of more even temperament than their very
| light or very dark.haired brothers andssis
| ters.
People with black hair, the man ex
planned, are more tempestuous than those
with lighter shades OF hirsute decoration
Women with fine black hair are high-strung
Smartness and meanness are said to go TO
| gether under coarse, black hair. The darker
shades OF hair denote strong feelings ant
lots OF sentiment.
..Is it true that fine, silky hair is an in
dication of the presence of blue blood?'
asked the reporter.
"No, no." replied monsieur. II hay,
dressed ze heads OF royalty, an found
zheir hair lust so coarse as on re comnones
peasant On ze other hand, zhere are
poor shop girls That 1 have seen with e
most beautiful heads OF rich, silky hair
Ze child of common extraction has oftet
as fine hair as re child of re Son of "a
Revolution or re Colonial DAME"