The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-26
JENNY LIND WAS HIS PAM.
For Fifty Years This Hairersss.--
Used Onions and Carrots as q IT,, "a
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INV loEh SUM-
Jenny Lind used raw 7ri,z
raw carrots on her hair at mn, ,' IAN and
tlon and every time I went n s1sges-
nalr she told me the rrearr-. 'lsS Aer
the best tonic she had ever III, was
people used more onions and ,s,1SlL- II
thelr sealps, there would be far-s ,1,s on
paid heads and thin hair" VIA
The man who has used ori,--
carrots on his own head for Hfr,- ..' ana
and has a fine lot Of hair v5f.S,51I s
thinks is the result is William, D.lt, ne
who is the oldest hair drasss- -'it 10y
United States and has in his rf-Ds -. ~, '-5
saged the heads Of the KnicI-artg,-----. mas
in old New York. oNAss
his peculiar treatment Of s,ar-. o..
not seem 10 discourage his fo-rrs- VIZ
irons and they all submitted Ia ~
tonic which he declares is the orI,, r-.
ural one. For thirty-fve years M nE
Dlee dressed, clipped and treated u.
mar or A. I. Stewart. He used IN s-
pear punctually at Mr.. Stewartrs 49,
armed with sliced onion or a grst-+
carrot, and he says that he kent u-
Stewards hair in marvellous co15f,5--
for nearly forty years.
THE ladies were far easier IN r.-
age than the men, said Professor -T1l
blee. They will put up with s7v NJ
convenience that will make them bean.
tiful. way
I have gone into some Of the INNS.
elegant homes in New York car-rsg-
my tightly boxed onion, and in a bss-5
tifully appointed room. with the vim
dOWs thrown wide open. I have usa5
the slices Of onion briskly for ten or
fifteen minutes, while miladi sat with
her nose and eyes covered with Der
fumed cloth.
When I was sent for to dress the
hair Of Jenny Lind it opened the wav tc
most Of the other grand opera singers
who came here back in that day. She
liked my hair dressing and ] had a
standing engagement to dress her hair
on the nights she sang.
This used to make a good deal Of
confusion, because in those days there
was no other hair dresser. connecting
with me and it kept one man busy get
ting around. Even by beginning early
in the afternoon I could not get all the
singers hair done and attend 90 my
own patrons besides. Often I have
dressed Jenny Lind's hair I'm the morn
ing when she was to sing at night and
she has gone carefully about all day
till the hour Of her appearance.
The most amusing situations used
to come UP on the nights Of the great
balls. Then I would often have fifty
or sixty heads to dress for a single
great occasion, especially for the Char
ity ball. and Of course it was next to
impossible TO get around to that num-
Der. had no assistant; I did all The
work myself, going around in a little
buggy from house to house, and so
used to begin in the early morning o.
the day before the ball.
"TO those who applied to me last
went first and I always put in two soI
DAYS before some such affair. dressing
the hair Of the assembl3ge. OF cOurs
this meant that the ladies whose ha.
was dressed the day before Wer
obliged to sleep sitting up.
Il treated and brushed hair. and dt
it all over the head in the papilOttes-
the papers they then used. Then
was left to miladi herself to keep he
head with all care for the occasion
Sometimes they told me they would g
to bed and have maid sit by the
the pillows or covers were disarrangln
the hair.
Il remember that special metho
very well because I recall one nigh
Just before a ball when a messeugt
arrived hot-foOt TO tel me that
was no use. the maid had done every
thing. but the lady whose hair / hs
done at 10 o'clock on the previous ia
had disarranged her couture hopeless
and I was commanded TO come TO ne
/ did this when I had finished all On
rest. and found her in tears, and don
know which I shall remember ionge
the scOlding she had ready. or the te
she gave met
Many OF the old KniCkeTbOCkers- III
Dibblee numbered among his patron
and his little buggy and tired hof-
were as well known about WasMns0
square and in the fashionable neighoo.
hood below Twenty street as
the square itself.
There wasn't a young gallant aoo-
town in those days, says Mr.. Dioo--
for whom haven't refused 90 gre.
q lock of hair. They did their pes
and there was nothing they dion [ o
fer me to clip off just d tiny lock
this one or that one when I was dom
her hair
1T wasn't always so easy TO gel OF.
that difficulty as it was in the case
Jenny Lind. Every night when j can
from her dressing room there were nd %,
a dozen men or so hanging around ~
/ stage entrance and asking me Tor ~
Of her hair. One or two or tues1 ~
] lowed me up. so that finally ] gol .
of item by giving them a lock o. . ..-,
/ Whether it was Jenny LIND .a -.,r
not-well. in a week they toEgo. aD. W..
it. anyway" says Mr.. Dloo-e4.