The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-20
GREAT VALUE IN HAIR.

A New York hair dealer has been
letting the public into some of the
secrets of his trade that are highly
interesting. Hair he says, is the most
expensive commodity on the market
short of radum and diamonds. 1t
costs more than it's weight in gold
Some hair costs 500 an ounce. That is
81 600 pound. But this expensive hair
necessarily exists in very small guam
titles. That is why it is so rare and
so expensive.
Elderly people with long white hair
should not be tempted to cut it off
in the hope of getting 800 an ounce
for it without first having an expert
inspect it," continued the dealer. IF
it is tnged with yellow it's value is
reduced to almost nothing. We can
get plenty of long white hair tinged
with yellow, but the pure white is ex-
tremely rare and very expensive. A
wig made for the wife of a Chicago
bank president by me two years ago
of this pure white hair cost the lady
$1,000. And it took me nearly a year
to collect the hair from all over the
country. 1 used five ounces in the
wig.
THE most expensive shade, next to
the white hair l have mentioned. is
what is known as ash blonde. 1t is
a mouse colored hair, very rare-but
the pale peroxide blonde produced by
artificial means, but the natural pale
blonde. Hair of this kind is easily
worth $50 an ounce, but very few peo-
pie have it.
THE cheapest kind of hair is black
Chinese hair cut from the queues of
Cinnamon. You can buy this hair for
IS a pound. 1t is used only for stage
purposes, in making what we call mi
kado wigs.
This is the busy season of the year
for wigmakers. With the opening of
the theatrical season the output for
| the year will include about 400 SOU
| brette wigs, with fluffy curls, to be
| worn by rough soubrettes, about 1,50O
white wigs for use in the many Shakes
pearean plays that are scheduled for
production: about 800 oriental wigs for
biblical plays; about 500 Japanese wigs
for several big productions; about 600
brown George wigs for general use
and for Shakespearean plays; about
the same number of fright wigs for use
in the rough and tumble farce come
dies and number of special wigs for
certain persons.
THE seasons output will include al
so no less than 1900 fluffy wigs for
chorus girls. These chorus girls buy
them singly and pay for them them
selves, whereas the management usu-
ally pays for the wigs of a big pro-
duction. The Chorus girl invests in a
wig made for herself because it is cas-
Ter and prettier to wear a wig every
night than it is to curl her own hair.
1.-The prices on wigs vary from So
for a rough black wig to 5000 for a
very fine production. I charged $3.50
for most peculiar wig which / made
few months ago.
"A beautiful young woman, who re-
fused to give her name, called on me
and said she wanted a wig to be worn
with her own hair, which would reach
to the floor She was a blonde, and
/ succeeded after some difficulty in get
ting the hair she desired. 1 made it
up so that 1t fastened under her own
hair, and when she put it on it touch
ed the ground and looked real. She re-
fused to say why she wanted 1t or who
she was. She paid me the $3.50 and
/ have never seen her since. Since
she was not an actress and didn't look
like an advertisement for hair Oil, /
can only conclue she wanted to APP
pear in some amateur theatricals."