The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-06
aFALsE HAIR.
Who're It Comes From and How 1t
Is Handled.

Who're It Comes From and How 1t
Is Handled.
The death of a worker in human
hair from anthrax. supposed to be
engendered by germs in the hair
from China, says the London Globe,
brings the extraordinarily increased
demand for artificial hair before the
public. Within the last five years the
wearing of false hair in one or other
of the many artistic clever forms in
which it is now offered has advanced
by leaps and bounds. A conversation
with one Of the leading artincers in
this line ELECTED many interesting
facts. He scorns hair from Chinese
man or woman, deeming it fit only for
the cheapest and most common of
fringes, Transformations, etc. The
markets he and other good manufac-
turers of artificial hair frequent are
mainly in Germany, Austria, France
and Italy. The idea that girls selling
their hair deprive themselves of all
their tresses at once is, It seems, err
roneous. A girl blessed with long,
even silky hair and wishing, to make
money out of 1t goes to the hair mer-
chant and tells him exactly how much
of It she will part with, or she divides
the hair herself, and offers it to him,
to be cut of. Sad to relate, the hair
merchants, as class, have the reputa-
ton of sharp, If not actually dis
honest, dealings, and they are so lack
ing in principle and sympathy that they
invariably clip of more than their al
lowance, the girl having to submit.
1t is only from converts that the entire
hair Of womans' head can be had,
and the sale of the hair cut OF nuns
head when she takes the veil is a
valuable item in some converts in
comes.
Hair bought from the ordinary mer-
chants of the class described is more
often than not fraudulently weighted
with grease and dirty matter, and fire.
Quently the purchaser loses about
80 per cent before the hair is cleansed.
The cost of thoroughly cleaning and
working up this bought hair Is enor-
nous, and as only skilled workers
can do it the seller of the made-up
article must make about so percent
on the price he gave to the merchant
before he realizes any profit. 1t may
ease the minds. of ladies wearing
artificial hair land it is one in ten
who does not nowadays) to know that
the cleaning of the hair is through
and effectually destroys and danger of
disease from unhealthy germs. Every
hair has to be fastened In, with the
root up and the point down, as it grows
on the head, or it will not lie smooth
and even. The exact shade has to be
matched from many different lots of
hair, and length and texture have also
to be studied.
Women in these isles seldom sell
their hair. either because they will not,
or because their continental sisters
have more abundant tresses. 1t is
more difficult to get fine black or gray
hair than ony other, although the
Italian women have thick, long, black
hair. it Is coarse-irdeed. next low
est in quality to the Chinese hair. 1t
Is the girls in the south of France
who furnish the hair merchant with
the finest and best black hair. AS to
white hair. it is next to impossible to
get good crop of long white hair,
and this color is propcrtionately cost
IL. Happily, most ladies wearing
smart transformations, fringes and
curls have the vanity to dye their hair,
and shun the sign of age indicated by
bleached tresses. Exchange.