The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-14

To Travel 5000 Miles to Secure n
Good Hair Tint Is Common In
Fashionable Socfety-Dyed Hair Is
No Longer Recognizable Three
Blocks Away. 'i- ...t -A +.
1t is probable that more English
women dye the hair. than those of any
other nation of up-to-date Importance.
TO them it seems as nothing to cross
the channel to Paris, the mecca. of such
art, and to remain there for the. pur-'
pose of having the deed fifty accom-
plished. Also with the French and.
Americans the custom has now reached
a state of triumphant vogue. This, no
doubt, is an outcome of the very great
improvement which during the last
few years has been achieved in the
dyes themselves and in the better
knowledge of how to apply them. In
deed, it seems but short time ago
when woman with dyed hair could
be detected blocks away. Invariably
it has dull and heavy look, and gave
her besides a most unWholeSOme APP
pearance, only to be rivaled by that of
the man with dyed whiskers.
The use of henna was formerly as
siduously avoided by any who did not
wish to turn their locks to an unholy
shade of red, and generally relegated
TO Algiers, where the woman prize 1t
to dye the left hand, and the finger
nails of the right. Only is this prac-
tice saved from being barbaric by the
extreme eXclusiveness of it's patrons
To-day, on the contrary, we hear OF
dyes that are actually beneficial to the
hair, causing it to thrive with new
vigor and it's luster to increase. More
over, it has been discovered that hen
ma, though secret of application, is
capable of turning the hair not only
to red, but to a most ravissante brown,
casting at the same time innumerable
lights of gold and red, and absolutely
defying detection by any excepting
friends of extensively good memories
But hepna, from the beginning of
things the benefactress of Oriental
women, is not to be lightly dealt with
by modern products of civilization. The
French besides with the people of the
East, seem to hold closely the secret
of its best use. To Paris, then, must
both the English and American women
go whenever they wish to have their
gray hairs hidden by it, or more be-
coming lights cast over unattractive
locks.
Before the first application of the ia
nous herb by. we'll known coiffause.
$50 francs, or about $50 in American
money, must be resigned And in the
performance three mortal hours are con-
sumed. Bravery and faith, indeed. are
required to pull one through this try
ing time After the stuff, in the form
of paste, looking like melted choco-
late, has repeatedly been rubbed
through the hair with a fiat camers
hair brush at intervals of about tif
teen minutes, series of scrubbings
and douches takes place, second to
none.
A comical picture is then presented
by the seeker after beauty, as muf-
fled in towels she leans from a low
chair we'll over the bathtub's side. her
hair falling forward into it's denth
and with attendants on either side Of
her alternately emptying great. pitch
ers of cold water over her head. The
fluid which thus the water brings ont
of the hair, and as seen in the bottom
of the tub, is greenish and oily and
not in the least suggestive of future
lovely results. After such a treatment
1t is assured that the hair will remain
intact for six months-that is, with the