The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-15
HOW THE HAIR WILL BE
DONE UP" NEXT YEAR.

This is not a shop. monsieur" said
the d2pper little man. as we went
staircase. This" and ne threw the door
open with a flourish, this is the French
Academy School OF Hairdressng"
Immediately afterward was Interested,
writes the Paris correspondent OF the
London Evening Standard. II was long,
-ceilinged room. with many windows.
the upstairs dining room OF the cafe I'm
more prosaic moments. Today i'm front
OF each window. stood a little dressing
table In front OF each dressing table sat
a pretty girl with white dressing gown
on and her hair down her back and be-
hind each pretty girl stood "A barber in
twirllng things with a pair of curling
tonss. In the center OF the room, with
out any curling tongs. and with his frock-
coat on and tightly buttoned, stood Mon
sieur, the Professor. 10 whom / was
promptly introduced. He looked a little
bit Ike dancing master who was teach
ing dancing with his hands. He was
dapper little person from the waist up
ward. but his trousers and his boots were
shocking The trousers were black and
white check, linen not cloth and the
boots were OF a greenlsh yellow.
] whispered request for information,
and my friend explained that the PROBES
sor usually lectured in an apron. But
the top part OF the man was perfection.
and his hair, straight by nature, but won
derfuly waved by art. was a poem. AS
for his face that was all over whiskers
and beard but these were 30 oiled and so
cured and so frizzed and so parted that
the man looked quite human. lie had
good hands. and all his explanation was
done with these lie was lecturing on
the fashions In hair for 1907, and explain
ing that more hair would be worn than
had been worn this year. Then a small
boy In a white coat gave each pupil two
or three things which looked like the glor-
ihed ghosts OF dead sausages-black, gold
en-, red or mouse colored, in accordance
hn kaf Of m
chairs
"Allons, Messieurs, let us sec them.
said the little professor. swapping open
his watch. And I'm a moment ten little
men rushed at ten ladies with a passion
or excitement that startled me But they
did not assault them. A hundred mn
gers twinkled In and out OF ten nne heads
of hair, which sizzled first, tnen sizzled
clattered TO the ground, were pulled over
sausage and pushed under sausage
and tugged around sausage ana patled
at a sausage, were twisted and twlrted,
and pushed and pulled. till l felt inclined
TO can aloud for mercy.
Tres bienu said the little professor
six minutes, mais c'est magniiique, ca!
The first hairdresser had finished, ana
presently the ten little men stood away
from their ten pretty models. and we were
asked TO walk around and admire thelr
hair-dressed a la something-l DO nor
know what. ! only know that IL looked
very pretty, and that for the first time
in my life | understood why the Japan
csc girls prefer 10 sleep on wooden pill
low with hole cut I'm it rather than nave
their hair done more than once a month.
"Et VOLTA" said Mr.. the Professor. MY
friend who had established himself at
n table with a large sheet of paper, pens,
ink and very important expression TOOK
notes. And Mr. the Professor gave an-
other short lecture and another word OF
command Down came the hair struc-
lures. out came the sausages, mouths
were filed with hairpns, ana the hun
dred fingers flew again. And presently
the halr OF the ten ladies was dressed
for dinner-dressed quite differently.
"The coiffure of 1907 said Mr.. the Pro-
fessor turning TO me, ana giving MS pu-
niIs a moments rest will be more com
plicated and more worked UP than II has
ever been before. There will be more pos
tiches. more chichis, more aids TO nature