The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-28
ARTISTIC HAIR PULLING.

ARTISTIC HAIR PULLING.
It II All the Rage row to Have the
Eyebrows Plueked Ont.
"Want your eyebrows beautifed ?"
asked the manicure girl, shifting hen
gum and her customers hand at the
Eame time.
my eyebrows?
"Yes. Fought to have some Of 'em
pulled out"
pulled out! Why. they're too thin
already"
"Tain't 50 much that they're thin q
that they're spread over 30 much
ground" judicicusly.
well, pulling them out won't exact
ly concentrate their forces" with szr-
casm.
The manicure girl shifted her gum
and thought over the remark.
"You mean it won't make 'em any
thicker?" inquiringly.
That's what I mean"
"Well, maybe it won't right Oh. but ii
will after awhile. And, anyhow, it
makes 'em look thicker if you'll have
EN- in the line where they belong"
do you do it?"
"No. He does en-" jerking her head
over her shoulder toward the man who
was curling hair across the room
do you use an electric needle?'
mo - um. Don't know anything
about il. We just pull 'em out"
wont they grow again7"
Eyes"
"And then you'll pull them cut
Again?"
"Unhuh. After you've pulled 'em
out several times they quit comm in. -
docs it hurt?"
ooh, little. But gracious, that ain t
pothin'! Some people has us to do a
lot more'n that. You know how some
peoples hair grows down on their tenn
pies almost to their eyebrows? Well,
we pull that out, too. And we make the
hair look as if it grew in . curve along
the edge-understand? - by pullin' it
out in places"
that's something new. isn't it?'
swell, it amt so new as it seems.
We don't pull it out in the same places,
p'rape, but it's an old trick. You know
the way women used to wear their hair.
parted in the middle down over their
ears? Your mother probably wore
hern that way. Well, there was lots
an lots o. women who used to pull out
the hair up in the middle. where the
part begun, SOS 'twould make 'em have
a pointed forehead. Women were pref
ty much the same then as they are now,
I guess. Don't you think you'd like to
have your eyebrows beautiied?" shift
Ing the gum and the hand for final at
tack.
"Oh, guess it would hurt too much"
SWELL, if you mind that, we don't
need to pull 'em out. We can just put
sump'n on 'em that'll make 'em come
out o themselves"
"Why, how do you do that"
'Oh, we just put that stuff in that
bottle ON with little brush. All you
have to do is to be careful not to get it
On where yeu don't want the eyebrows
to come out. Wen give you beautiful
arch in q few weeks. Better have il
done"
mo, I think not to-day"
SITS all the rage" says the manicure,
with final I-rcsign-you-to-your.fate
toss of her head. Then, after her GUS
toner had departed: Women aro
funny" she remarked to her crony.
THAT there one, for instance; she'll
think it's all right to have her finger
nails boiled and bleached and pointed
and polished and cut OF to point. but
if you suggest doin' any old thing to her
eyebrows (which was sight too!)
why, you've almost insulted her deli
cate feelin's! Dear me! These people
makes me tired" And the manicure
girl took look at herself in the glass
and admiringly stroked the arches. Of
black that fadeth not away and archi-
tecturally accurate in form, which tes-
tilted to the extent to which the estab-
lishment could carry the identifying"
process. She, herself. was little ex-
treme, - is the way Of Grand street,
but she told tho truth. 1t il "all the
rage" to have your eyebrows pulled out
and otherwise ooaxed or compelled into
the proper linen. Y. Sun.