The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-15

Some Comhs OF Imitation She'll.
A Discovery About TurtIes-COstiy
Manufacture.
From the New York Sun.
''Well! You look like snged ratg' ex-
claimed plump, gray-haired matron to
blonde, as the latter entered car on
Madison avenue.
4 know it, answered the blonde, meek
iy.
Whatever have you been doing 60 your
beautiful hair?" asked the matron. at
looks for al the word as if you'd at
! tempted to SINCE it yourself and burned
it all over. ri tell you what it reminds
ne Ola patch OF prairie ground after
prairie FIRE"
"Oh, pleaser, said the other, deprecat-
ingly, I've never in my life heard so
much about anything as l have about my
hair You'd think l didn't have q spear
left, and it's only burned little around
| me edges and over the top. But l tell
| |ou, came near not being here to tel
he tale / almost lost my life"
You poor deari How?'' asked the mat
on, sympathetic enough now, and the
men opposite deliberately looked over their
oapers AID listened to what she had to
say
why, had what I thought was a real
tortoise shell comb in my hair the other
! evening answered the blonde land | SAT
Town very close to the drop light on the
table, when all of sudden l heard Pop
s-s-hh-sz! and then there was a horrible
0dor of burned HAIR
Your heads on fire, ssr yelled my
mail brother gleefully, and he began to
lance up and down and laugh
| 'Instinctiveiy bur cd my head in a lot
u sou pillows or a divan near me, and
50 my hair wasn't very much burned
Just thlnk! paid $4.5S for that comb
ana the shopgirl declared over and over
mat 1t was the real SHE'LL | was partlc-
uiar 10 ask, for my father had a comb
Jun up IN ms hands once, and he said il
was evidently made of guncotton ana
warned me against wearing Imitation
-chDs In my hair. Tll never wear anv
no AGAIN and yet with the present. style
d dressing the hair l don't see how 7
am to get on. NV"
"hat nonsense you talk! said the 9TH
viewer wear a comb in your hair
asdiu 4hoeed! I'd like to see the way YOU
can cress 1t. I'm just going down 10 NV
glove man now, and he has inst hougbt
beautiful line of genuine tortoise shell
COMBS from Paris, and he can tell Won
more about the styles in such goods snd
no" the women over there wear their hair
than any ten hair dressers you know"
mere is this wonderful MANI" asked
the blonde.
My COVE man. Don't you remember tis
hlt1e shop in Fifth avenue? The only de-
cent gloves l ever saw you wear. NV 1aa-
were the ones l persuaded you to set
there. one picks UP so much informa
tlon there, TOO. Every time l buy gloves
or wells or fans, handkerchiefs. or hair
ornaments from my glove man. as I call
hln, l iSel quite as if I'd been to an after
noon tea. If you only buy cents worth.
ne ehats away in English, French or Ger
man, as you please talking all sorts CT
ohsies and sms or really instruct,ng YOU
about your purchases. Funny isn't it?'
The men oppos te thought so, for all
Who didn't cough to suppress a laugh grim
ned.
Yes, you go there and lay in a supply
Of sid" and fancy combs and I'll warrant
YOU that they won't explode continued
The matron all unconscious "And here we
are at the very street where we want to
get Off"
The blonde followed her out and together
they entered The store
| I've brought this girl here to get some
side combs and shell hair ornaments that
i won't catch on fire and make her feel as
though she were taking part in the charge
of San Juan said the matron as the man
Sger came IcrWaru. MIND you, she wants
the real thing. And do tell us all about
the latest styles in such goods and how
the women in Paris really wear their
hair! Now, remember, / want the exact
| facts"
"And you shall have them" answered
the authority, bringing out a big case OF
very odd and rare shell goods. "You
might have been seriously injured and dis
figured for life by wearing an imitation
| -, 10 /,
10 the blonde. do you know l tremple
when I see a woman near a gas jet IL
open fire or lamp with those abominab c
hngs on, and there is no reason why sny
woman should not be able to tell the imi-
tation from the real. I'll teach you in a
minute, for l keep few pieces of imitl-
lion shell here for that purpose. You see
his fancy comb holding one up to the
light, ais clear and the places between
the teeth are finished off square and the
, ends of the teeth nearly so. That is an
imitation shell. but this" holding another
, up alongside of it, SIS cloudy looking, bui
very highly polished, and the spaces he
, tween the teeth are carefully rounded, anc
these things are always true of genuine
tortoise shell combs. They are made en-
tire;y by hand. The others are made il
molds."
'.You don't mean to say that ali OF
those are handmade" interrupted the ma
tron in a surprised voice.
Certainly they are" he answered, 'and
! the process is quite tedious. When Q
r woman thrusts a little real shell ornament
f through her hair, she little dreams Of
the number Of hands through which it has
, PASSED few weeks ago when 10 Pari:
. went into a shop TO buy these thing.
: before YOU / stood before a lite circu
Z lar counter. behind which were mum
. Der of tortoise shell goods Presently az
p old man. very Old man, saw that / wal
I Interested. and he came forward and said
Wouldn't you Ike 20 so through my
factory?' He turned out TO be NJ. Pierre
+ the Oldest manufacturer of shell goods u
q France OF course. / was delighted ans
before starting out he said: 4 want I,
! tell you a most interesting thing. Thu
= finest tortoise shells In the world come
from the West Indies. ana the next from
. Inc coast Of Africa We get an Of ours
, from the West Ind es and 80 do mos
: OF the makers Of very fine goods, and yol