The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-18
MAX TALKS OF HAIR
Some Interesting Facts Concerning
the Glory of Woman.
BEST FROM SWEDEN AND FRANCE
A Famous Beauty Whose Hair Was
Regularly Dressed 100 Years
After She Died.

"Cut your soul in two? Certainly, If
you'll hold it steady"
Clicking his shears with a menacing
snip-snip,- behind the counter of a big
store on Nicollet avenue. Herr Max re-
marked MOP as New Englander says
'Yes?" Well anyhow he continued,
those theosophy people pretend we can
divide our souls-that we can have half
soul in Minneapolis and half in
St. Petersburg - or West Baden
l suppose, then, that one man
may use another mans soul as
see-I have almost forgotten" added the
old man. slowly; doesn't new husband
sometimes leave his own soul with his
wife for safe keeping-he tells her so, at
least
But if souls can be safely transplanted
from one man to another, did you ever
think how hard it is to borrow for your
own personal, private use, any portion OF
another mans body? What strong
limbs what hearty stomachs, what big,
sound lungs, are almost going to waste
in the bodies of poor and miserable men
and women who would be delighted to sell
them off for a bit of money! II EN-
peror William could only arrange with
some street sweeper for full-sized. mus
cular left hand! And If Napoleon could
only have traded a kingdom to a peasant
for a first-class stomach.
yet there's one part, and one part
only of a man or woman that is as
modern and interchangeable as watch
wheel or a bicycle sprocket. Although
it's easily injured. it's always being
wounded voluntarily to the actual de-
light Of the man that it's part or
Like the very healthy liver of the invalid
that drank the liver water this part Of
sl,, - It'll =
q club after the rest Of him Is dead, or
It's likely to keep on a-growing. It's
the healthiest and soundest part of all
our body and can easily be kept alive
with proper care, for 12O, perhaps 200,
years. Yet it sometimes dies before we
do. And can use yours or you can bor-
row mine, or either Of US could appro-
pirate this section of a burgher that got
killed on Spon kop.
But I am not springing a conundrum
or nominating a candidate. Hair is what
I mean, my hair, anybody's hair. I've
thought a good deal about hair, because
I was so years a hair dresser before
opened my hair parlor' as a department
of this store
Max declared his career proudly. He is
small vivacious, keen-eyed active-an
example Of the specialist in trade that is
seen often among Europeans, seldom
among the more restless, the more am
hair is past and present and future. To
him nothing is uninteresting that may
possibly concern hair.
Eyes, sir he commented as he drew
from a pasteboard box woman's
"switch,' this is a part Of some girl
some young woman at least, pretty part,
too-fne, glossy, delightful drab color
But was she pretty? Was she good or
bad. stupid or bright. married Or single?
Did. she live in Russia, in Germany, in
Holland, in Sweden, Denmark or Norway?
If she's alive, is she IS or SO? Only a
clairvoyant could tell-for 81.
but some. things about her I could
guess. Probably she was a Swede, for
Swodes send us the best and most ex-
pensive drabs-a gray brown tint, you
see, very attractive If properly shaded,
"A variety of blondes And likely she was a
peasant a young woman, who sold her
hair to a peddler for 81 or SO worth Of
handkerchiefs, brass jewelry, etc.
"If the switch was beautiful fine,
glossy black. I should say it was grown
by French peasant girl. The French
peasants provide US with the finest and
silkiest blacks and browns. These people
have the best hair in Europe, for they
take the best care of it. The girls wash
their hair often in cold water, which is a
great tonic for the scalp When they use
soap, it is some mild olive oil soap like
our CASTLE. CASTLE is safe for the hair,
but the various special soaps, used so
much here by owners for shampoolng,
are dangerous. They take the life out
of the hair and turn it gray.
':Although the best blonde hairs, gold
en-. ETC., come from Sweden and parts Of
Germany, the German product Is strong
est in reddish browns and even in full
fedged reds-Mrs. Leslie Carter reds and
Titians. This reddish hue of some Ger
man hair comes from using coarse, strong
soap on the head.
.Titians remind me that italian hair is
almost worthless. You'd naturally say
that the women there have fine, long hair.
AS matter of fact, the best hair that we
can get from Italy is Of ordinary brown
shades, and almost always 1t is much too
short and snarly to make any use of. Its
quality is bad, for the Italian peasants
don't keep their hair very neat.
'Now the best black hair isn't from
Italy or France, but from Mexico. Mexi-
can hair is wonderful blue black color
But we can get very little Of it. Tht
girls down there are prouder Of their hair
than of more important thing, I'm told
and would as soon sell their big, blazing
eyes. But in France it's a regular source
OF pin money for a peasant girl to sell hel
own hair. She has such very healthy hail
that she can sell tWenty-four inches of i
every two years. American locks dom
grow that fast. But the pea SAINT girl ex.
Instead of using switches and pompadours
and hats and rats.
'No, a negros hair isn't black, though
it looks so. At least it's only a reddish
black, just as negro's teeth, which lool
so white, are really very yellow com
pared with white mans, as any dentis
will tell you.
"But lots of colored women would lik
to have black hair and straight hair a.
WE'LL That's why I sell so many pinch
ers.''
Herr Max took from shelf a heavy
nipper-like contrivance, the jaws o
which, instead Of meeting at sharp points
ended in fiat solid and circular stee
discs.
1.-THE colored woman who want to liv
up to her opportunities explained tn
hair dresser, "dampens her curly tresses
heats these pinchers, presses bit of he
hair between the pinchers and at ono
etraightens out the kinks. It's just tn
reverse of a white girls trick with curl
ing irons. Then the colored woman put