The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-11
THE COIFFURE OF 1907.
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Hair Dressing school.

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This is not a shop, Monsieur said the
dapper little man. as we went through the
cafe together and up the staircase. This,
and he threw the loo open with a -four
ish, this is the French Academy School
OF Hairdressing."
Immediately afterward / was inter
ested, writes the Paris correspondent
Of the London Erening Standard. II was
a long, low ceilinged ROOM, with many win
dows, the upstairs dining room of the cafe
in more prosaic moments. To-day, in front
of each window, stood n little dressing
table; in front of each dressing table sat
a pretty girl with a white dressing gown
on and her hair down her back. and behind
each pretty girl stood a barber in his shirt
sleeves, doing wild, weird, twirling things
with a pair Of curling tongs. In the centre
of the room, without any curling tongs,
and with his frockcoat On and tightly but
toned, stood Monsieur the Professor, 10
whom l was promptly introduced. He
looked a little bit like a dancing master who
was teaching dancing with his hands. He was
a dapper little person from the waist up
ward, but his trousers and his boots were
shocking. The trousers were black and
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were Of a greenish yellow.
I whispered a request for information
and my friend explained that the professor
usually lectured in an apron. But the top
part Of the man was perfection, and his hair,
straight by nature, but wonderfully waved
by art, was a poem. As for his face that was
all over whiskers and beard, but these were
80 oiled and so curled and SO frizzed and
so parted that the man looked quite human.
He had good hands, and all his explanation
was done with these. He was lecturing on
the fashions in hair for 1907, and explaining
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 glorihed ghosts
of lead sausages-black. golden, red or
mouse colored, In accordance with the hair
Of the ladies on the chairs.
-Allons, Messieurs. let us see them" said
the little professor, swapping open his
watch. And in a moment ten little men
rushed at ten ladies with a passion OF ex-
element that startled me. But they did not
assault them. A hundred fingers twinkled
I'M and out Of ten fine headS OF hair, which
sizzled first. then sizzled again. and then,
as the curling tongs clattered to the ground,
we're pulled over a sausage and pushed
under a sausage and tugged around a
sausage and patted at a sausage. were
twisted and twirtled, and pushed and pulled
ell | felt inclined to call aloud for mercy.
Tres bieni" said the little professor.
six minutes. mais c'est MAGNITUDE. cal"
Tho first hairdresser had finished. and pres
emily the ten little men stood away from
their ten pretty models. and we were asked
TO walk around and admire their hair.
dressed a Ia something I do not know
what. I only know that IL looked very
pretty, and that for the first time In nv
life understood why the Japanese girls
prefer to sleep on a wooden pillow with a
hole cut in IL rather than nave their hair
lone more than noe n month.
TT VOLTA. said Mr.. the Professor. Nv
friend. who had established himself NJ
q table with a large sheet of paper. pens,
ink and "A very important ex oression, took
notes. And Mr.. the Professor gave an
other short lecture and another word Of
command. Down came the hair structures,
out came the sauSaHes, mouths were filed
with hairpins, end the hundred fingers
Gew again. And presently the hair Of
the ten ladies was dressed for dinner 7
dressed quite differently.
The coinIre Of 1907. said Mr.. the Profes-
sor. turning TO me, and giving mis- pupils
a moments rest will be more complicated
and more worked up than II has ever been
before. There will be more Joetichcs
more chichis, moro aid 20 nature IIele
he pointed 10 the sauSagel than there
have ever been. ind we snail hope In
1908 TO approach the perfection Of a century
before, when q lady's hair at the opera
was as intricate a work OF art a. a pastry
cooks centrepieoc on u dining table,