Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-08-21
MARCEL WAVE MADE
INVENTOR WEALTHY
And Added a Word to English
Language--$20 Was Bid
for a Sitting.

So the great Marcel has been invited
to London as the guest of honor at the
convention of English hairdressers.
Marcel is the WAIVER of woman's HAIR
who has added a word to the language.
Marcel does not have to lease me
business TO go 20 London. says the ST.
Louis Republic. He gave that up long
ago. He soon grew too rich to WORK.
He gives some of his time TO instruct
ing those anxious to acquire his ART
but he always sees TO it that ne gets
to the Bots in his victoria before the
afternoon drive is over.
II was Jane Hading In the very early
'90s that brought Marcel his fame. he
was merely one OF several hundred
Paris hairdressers at that time. Then
he waved the beautiful Henner -colored
hair of Hading and made his modest
shop in the Rue de IEchelle h mecca
of all the women in Paris who wanted
the same waving tresses.
There were many other men VINO
could wave the hair, but none who
could produce the long, graceful waves
turned out by Marcel, and none OF them
burned the hair so little as the u
black mustached young Frenchman.
But MarceI's waving was alone all
wonderful in its durability. 1t lasted
for a week or more. Women declared
II more becoming the second day than
at any other time. Then the waves had
lost the stiffness they might possess at
first.
High Bids for Sittings.
Duchesses and other great ladies
%journeyed over from London TO have
their hair waved by Marcel when they
were going TO a ball or whenever they
wanted to have their hair as beautiful
as that of the famous Jane Hading.
OF course, Marcel acquired clients as
rapidly as he had fame. His fee was
10 francs, and officially ii was never
increased, although he usually found a
way of getting much more from MS
crowding patrons.
He made appointments for his clients,
but there was no assurance that they
would be attended to when their turn
arrived. Suppose a woman was wait
ing to have her hair waved and Marcel
was putting the finishing touches on
the woman in front of her. Suppose
there entered then a woman with
straight tresses who wanted her hair
done in time to dine that afternoon in
the Bots.
Il will give 20 francs for the first
turn" she would say e~xcitedly.
Then Marcel would turn 20 the
woman who had been waiting an hour.
This lady has offered for your turn
double what o expect to give" he
would say. IF you are not willing to
pay thai amount il is the rule for me
to allow her to take it."
If she was in the habit of going to
Marcels and knew his usage she
either made the raise or went home.
If she was a stranger she was likely
to be indignant. But that never
helped her.
Sometimes she had the pleasure Of
seeing the interloper lose her turn also
when a third woman came along and
doubled the bid. In this way Marcel
sometimes ran the price of a session
up to 100 francs. On the spring after
moons the demand for attention was
so great that Marcel earned a large
sum. After a while he gave up all
general practice and treated only the
women able to pay him a large sum.
A few years ago he opened the
school over which he occasionally pre-
sides. He now leads the life of ele-
leisure which is made possible
by the wealth he gained through being
superior to anybody else in the world
in his own speciality.