The Washington weekly post., 1899-07-25
FALSE HAIR IN FASHION.
Peasant Girls Of Germany supply the
Hest Grades.

From ths PhiIs4slpsia In--ifsr.
False hair. Horrible, I never would
wear il in the vorid." eXclaim nirc wor-
en- out OF ten. and continue looking like
flights. The tenth woman smiles quietly
10 herself when her heated and dsnevel-
ed dearest friends say despairingiy. II
never can look rsspccta bic in summer. and
You are always as fresh and unruffled as
IL yOu'e just come from under the hands
OF your maid. There is nothing lik. curly
hair 10 make a woman amiSble You
ought 10 be a perfect saint, you lucky
woman"
And the lucky woman. an hour later.
in the privacy OF her own apartment.
where she has retired for her daily siesta.
carefully extracts three or four little Curis
on hairpins from her chevelure. pats
them into a nice little spiral and pins
them down ready to be donned again with
the afternoon gown. or takes on her en-
tire pompadour and cools her aching
brow. False hair seems vulgar. but I
don't know but that strinEy locks in ones
eyes, even II they are poor things but
ones own" are just as bad. ore hardly
cares 10 acknowledge the use OF mads-to-
order Curls. Just as one would not take
out ones teeth and exhibit them bur
those little toilet accessories are made 50
Cleveriy nowadays thar II one spends
money enough there is no suspicion OF
the substitute and 40 need for dank. an
lovely bangs.
There has meyer been yeA. more con-
siderate than this Of the girl whose hair
is straight. The pomnadour Is the solu-
tion TO so many difficulties. Few persons,
however, look quite as well they ought
without the softeuing fringe and those
same fluffy little tendrils lying against the
hot forehead melt and double away in no
time. For a few dollars you can buy
single CuTlS fastened TO hair pins. which
can be thrust deep in the pompa6our at
those awkward and untitled corners Of the
forehead which half the women in the
world have fastened in place with another
tiny pin and are absolutely above suspi-
cion- All day long, TO matter how hot Tho
sun. or how rough the wind. those EttI2
curls are proper and well behaved. and
though 1 am as strongly prejudced as
any one against such make believes, ! can
but admit that they are Sl improvement.
The false pOmpadOurs-and il is the word
more than anything else which prevents
people from buying thsm-are finished
with a little fringe at the forehead and
are also now made so naturally that one
can hardly detect them. i know girls who
wear them in bathing, but. except for
promenade use. that is a little dangerous.
There IL absolutely nothing which Will
eTiEkle locks or keep them In curl other
than the make-shift bandoiine prenara-
tions and a fortune awaits the inventor
who turns his massive brain successfully
upon the subject And my dear" eX-
claimed the good-natured little woman
who has a dozen hafr-dressers under her
I'm a well-knoWn establishment you have
not the slightest idea Of the number OF
women nowadays who are supplying What
nature left out. in the way or haIr. SO
very many of our best customers wear lit
tie pieces or cur!s in front, you would be
surprised. / do wonder sometimes where
all the curled hair does come from, We
use so much of it. in every conceivable
tint. The best. you know, is imported.
American hair is only second grade,
and our best stuff comes from Germany
and other places on the continent There
are people who raise hair for market, you
know; they can produce n crop in two or
three years. ani We have our agents out
who make the rounds and collect IL once
in so often. All. yes ] do not know why
Il is but the American hair is not as
good. We are too nervous, perhaps. Well
doesn't that lar YOU? To think of some
blonde peasant beauty in Alsace or in
SaXony calmly shearing off her braids
every few years that she may realize
enough for a new pipon or pair Of silver
earrings. OF perhaps even that she may
not go hungry through the long, fhard
winter: then to think Of the way our
farmers daughters would even receive
such an idea makes one realize with espe-
Cial force the thrift OF the old countries
and the difference in this"