The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-22

hang peignoirs of every tint in silk satin
or linen that may please her taste she is
booked for a steaming. The hair is en-
cased in a long bag of the thinnest rubber,
one end of which fits close about the fore
head, back of the neck and ears. Steam
is turned on from below, and for nearly an
hour rises into the locks, condenses on
the scalp and a steady drip, drip, goes
on until a proper point of cleanliness is
reached The drying is all done in a
trice with an electric brush. This Is fol-
lowed by thoroughly pertaining the tress-
es, a process also accomplished by steam,
and this perfume eatment supplies TO
dry hair just the requisite gloss. After
long and patient experiment to such a
point of perfection has the drying of hair
been recently brought. that If a blonde or
gray head is given a darker tint one
eatment In every six months is enough
to hold the color bright and true against
all, save salt water tests. Red is the tone
most difficult TO fix, unless the process of
changing from the natural to the artificial
color is begun in youth and carried on
gradually In Paris nowadays it is no
uncommon sight TO see girls of u and IA
going every week to the hairdresser for
the ranging of their sober Brown or back
locks Girls there are destined for the
stage or for smart society and their ambi-
tious mothers willingly undergo the
trouble and expense entailed in order TO
secure for their daughters a feature SO
rare and so difficult of attainment.
Hair dressers, however, great as is their
influence, are no more potent or advanced
along the road to Scien tific manufacture
of beauty than the corset makers. Won
derfully shaped and supple bodies they fit
onto exquisitely coiffed heads and the
making of special corsets alone in Paris
is business amounting to millions of
dollars year. No one knows really how
strong is the link that binds the dressmak-
err to the corsetiere in this city of good
gowns.
When the great modistes call q conven-
ton to consider vital changes in the style
nothing can be decided until the corset
makers admit the possibility Of producing
stays that will cast the figure into the
mold requisite for the new form of skirt
and waist. Three years ago a stayraker
in Paris invented the straight front cor
set with a view of satisfying the demands
of Worth and his monfreres who had de-
cded to move slowly toward the restora-
ton of the Louis XIV and XVI styles Of
dress.
The Cold Water Witch.
At first the women refused to wear the
corset but the dressmakers put on the
thumb screws by promptly and fatty re-
fusing to take an order for a gown unless
men gave in and that inventive staymaker
is a rich man. He did 1t all by fooing will
lingly beguiled feminnity; he made the
waist bigger but he made It longer and
now when he has woman whose body no
human force could crush into a twenty
four-inch corset. he turns her over to the
producer OF bones. TO the woman who
keeps Rejaue's figure in trim and who
brushes flesh from the limbs as easily as
a housemaid whisks cobwebs from the
wall.
They call her the cold water witch be-
cause she spouts an Icy fluid on her vic
tins from every point Of the compass and
ia even capable, her subjects say, OF mass
aging and pounding obstinate flesh with
bags filled with finely shaved lee. Wrapp-
ed In a sheet her patient Is first laid on a
wooden table with a gutter oil around It's
edge, and then the rubber hose Is turned
on IL plays IN "A spray, a circle ana a
steady spout first, from this ang'e and
then from that. and after a few moment 8
81 spraying the humping win ice-hllfd
bags begin right on the off ndlugiy TAT
spot until q does melt Ike dew according
10 HamletF eloqnenly expressed 4 u .
Aftcr the spraying and humping the pa
tlent g. ordered 10 run around The room u
rubbed down, wrapped in flannel rlbs.
allowed 10 resi nf'ern minutes. and given
dry biscuit and half a cup VI hot black