The age-herald., 1901-06-09
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 Don't Bet on a Mans Hair.

gOIt 9CA Oti Q Weft
 "As a general thing one of the most unsafe bets to make is on a mans hair. Only a few days ago l saw a fellow bluffed out of bet by man with tqA- pee; the fellow dropped out of the argu- ment when the man offered to bet either that he was or wasn't wearing false hair. There's one exception to the rule: When you see a really red-headed man the hair is his own in about ninety cases out of hundred. I may say that we never make a red wig unless 1t be for the stage"
 The toupee of commerce and of the or chestra circle is calculated to deceive. It is no bigger than the thin spot on top of the head and it's foundation is strong, almost invisible net that Is wholly trans parent. The hairs are tied into this net one at a time, and the side or center part is so disposed that the flesh tints of the scalp show through it.
 The wig is built upon the same gen. eral principle save that its base net IS stronger, is elastic, and holds the wig to place by compression. while the tou- pee is held to place by four little Jumps of wax, fastened to the net and then pressed into the hair. Every wig is made to order The net must be carefully measured and fitted, then the shade or hair must be chosen, and with the oase net stretched over a wooden headpleee, the wigmaker begins his work.
 The hair comes from Europe, several countries along the Mediterranean TUT nishng it and giving 1t some degree or selection and preparation. Paris, how eyer turns out most of the finished pro- duct. ranging In price at wholesale in the ITnjted States from S2 an ounce for ordi- nary shades up to $20 or $25 an ounce for long, snow white locks
 All Made o. Woman's Hair. Tn making a wig or toupee with the shortest of hair the hairs used cannot be less than four or five inches long. For this reason every man who wears VIE knows that 1t is made of woman's hair. But even the finest of hair clipped from a womans head is not available al d modern wigmaker's until it has been treated to the more or less hidden pro- cesses of Southern Europe. It must be selected, made even at the ends, season ed, burnished, and, most of all, each hair must point in the direction in which it grew, otherwise a wig would become hopeless tangle.
 Beginning a wig, the hair roll is combed out in a pair of cards. The wig maker picks up single hair, catches II on the barbed point of delicate hookeo needle. pulls the root end of the hair into
  it out and in, and then with dexterous turn ties knot that divorce lawyer couldn't loosen Then, hair at time, the thousands of strands are knotted In until at the end of full week an expert operator has completed a wig that Is worth s35 to s65, if for man, and $oo to s1Oo if for woman, good toupee costs from SIP to s30.
 The marked difference in cost between a wig for a man and woman comes Tn the extra length of the womans halr. The market is flooded with short hair; the long braids cost good deal more money.
 In matching hair there is a peculiar drab. or mouse-colored, hair that gives most trouble. Almost any other shaoe may be tempered and made light or dark by mixing other shades, Just as painter mixes paints. Shades Of gray are easily made. It is the silver white that is hardest and costliest to produce in wig or toupee It has been said that Chief Justice Melville w. Fuller of the United States Supreme Court, in order to get a suitable wig in case he needed it. would have to pay more for 1t than almost any other public man in the United States.
 Wearers of wigs and toupees have the moth to contend with. A moth has an especial appetite for false hair, and In going through a wig it often cuts a path across it. looking as if it had been done with scissors Save for the moth wig or toupee stands usage well, and. except for the fact that mans whiskers, whit ening. may cause him to buy lighter wig, one of them may last him quite as long as he needs it.