The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-30

room has quantity commipgled flavor OF
funeral woes and the vanities Of the world;
bracelets and baby's locks: watch chains
and Willle's curls; brooches and Bessie's
hair.
On the walls are more ghosts. That
stone and weeping willow that Mrs. Deacon
Smith used to have in her front room; those
kneeing female figures and baskets OF
flowers Of all the colors that come In hair.
that one can remember hanging on the walls
ones childhood.
The South mourned thus copiously up to
very recent times. 1t was only very
few years ago that orders stopped COM
ing in from Dixie for these devices, as they
the Spanish American countries still order
the funeral things, at from IS TO SIS apiece.
The Spanish have always been particu-
larly fond OF hair iewelry, and have never
ceased TO wear it. They Hike best that which
day, for instance: brooch Of mother -of.
pearl set in gold In the old fashioned oval
shape and on the mother -of-pearl back
ground a tiny wreath Of hair, almost In
eredibly fine and delicate.
This fs the fne work which the proprietor
says she 10 not artist enough to execute.
It is a trade which would pay no one for
learning to-day.
thy portion e hair is enough 70 supply
r t,s or pA to in one sds s q little heart
shaped locket. or for q little device to put
| In the top OF bracelet. But IL takes more
to make a watch chain, which is the most
common Of all orders.
women who have kept this sentimental
| old trade alive. There are more orders
| for hair watch chains than for all other
devices put together.
They were finishing up 9 curious order
the Far West. He had sent In three kinds
manded that his chain be made in three
pieces one OF each. 1t was not a beautiful
thing when finished, but it was rather
pathetic.
An uninitlatei person would not recognize
the material OF these chains at first. Woven
hair makes q material which might be
used for variety Of purpcses:, II Is silky,
! soft and vet wiry, like stiff silk net; Max
ing it is a tedious job and one can hardly
| to paper boxes or lanipshades instead.
/ Except for one other similar little up
stairs place in New York and one or two
! in Chicago, this is the only shop In America
where hair {ewer srd is made, Ell and 1t s svp
Of the humorous occasionally hghtens the
twilight Of the place
One day there entered a man fallen In
the vale Of years, whose frosty locks might
naturally have betokened winter Of seuti-
ment also. He wanted a brooch made
OF a lock OF his hair 1t was for lady
friend,r he said, and he knew she would
appreciate 1t greatly.
Asked for the material he oheerfully
bobbed his head down In front Of the pro-
prietor and suggested that she should cut
Off lock, somewhere where 1t wouldn ;,
show The proprietor being humorous
little soul, and net desiring to lose the
order. fed precipitately from the, room
to prevent herself from laughing In heI
customers face
Now and then the hair Of a favortte horse
or dog Ia forwarded, almost invariably by
a man; but the queerest material that ever
came In was a bunch OF elephant hail
from the end Of the big fellows tail. II
was sent by the largest jeweller In New
York. who received the order from q lady
the elephant had been.
The jeweller said he could command any