New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-25
56of Most of CHER Hair Is False No LonSer
Causes Oar Fair Ones TO BIuSb
or Lie About If,

Trip along a. you like. Gladys Arsminta.
Cock your head sauciy. mince your steps
within your foolish hobhIe skirt. balance
yourself carefully on your stilted shoes
for none in sight VIII deny that he is look
sn- at you. I. Tor once can't turn my gaze
away. for I'm IN momentarY fear that your
slender cnamelled neck viii break beneath
1he weight Of that corrugated blond mush-
loom OF hair that straddles your little
head and Hies with your monstroUs hat TO
crowd ne over 10 the curb. Did you buy
1hose puffs and curls 10y the bnshel?
Theym weigh a pound and a half III
swear. and not by the crooked scales Of
tie butcher. whose delivery boy. slouchins
las; with q basket over his head. greets
them with A TidiculinE whistle. 0ou think
1hev csmc from the head Of n peasant girl
IN Tho south Of France. because Nine. Chi
Enon told sou they were procured and ex-
ported ny her 7v-n agent I'm Paris. ] Won
der il you'd wear them Just as rridcfulIy
81 ] told YOU they were ripped from tho
had Of = dIrtv Chinaman as his dead body
lay hlir:erinE in the sun i'm the public
square of his native village TWO Years ago
E5e had died yery suddenly. in the presence
q all the Villagers. Just because it Was
said Ie killed two worthless fellows in a
frothel three nights earlier. His queue
went into a bundle with a lot OF others
that came from the heads Of men who died
from cholera and the plague that sum
lner. The hair was sent TO this country
by ar American agent at Hong Kong.
OF coarse there are a big percentage of
women wearing false hair who would scorn
French heels. the hobble skirt and a 80
finch hat The wearing of hair that doesn't
belong 10 her. i'm some form OF another,
s5ossns 10 De-. The dictate Of fashion which
the ateras... u-o5uan finds il hardest 10 dis
regard When The retailer sells her new
qua or switch. telling her il is human
hair''-a Germ used hy Occdentals in con
1radistinc-o 20 Chinese hair-she doubt
lass fOudly imagines that lie j. telling her
the truth Other women may be deceived
3rto wearing tee other kind. but they are
more easily fooled. and she is not Of their
humber. Yet The fact remains that tons
of hair arc imported yearly from China
srto this cosIntry. and that this hair event
rally fnds its way across The retailers
counter iu some one Of tho many forms
conveniently adopted FOR SIS use.
IN = recerrly report from She United
States Consul II Hong Kong il is described
low the hair is brought from the interior
10 The coast cities and there sold TO agents
representing certain firms IN New York. II
is then shipped 70 Americas remarkable
metropolis and sold al s. a pound 10 those
who prepare il FOR the trade. So far IL is
IN its crude state-that IS, just as il was
when pulled or cut from the heads of
Chinese criminals and from the heads OF
al other derelicts and oUtcasts whose
bodies, on account Of the life they had
led, are not considered worthy OF respect
from the living. Unable TO supply the de-
rnand from such sources, the Chinese col
lector even finds il profitable 10 rife the
graves of the sacred dead. and no small
proportion CT the queues shipped 10 this
caantry have been supplied ~ Oriental
gholIs Other Chinese dealers enplo, eA-
J.-iis 10 salp the lair from the heads ~
l5rta0Ls in street crowds
II l. enough 10 say thai theT5 seems L.
De guIy one class 81 people among the
hOIdes IA This big city who are willing 10
handle Chinese lair ia its crude state-the
Polish jews whom we have recently ac-
CURED from Russia. These unfortunates
iiasd (. Ghsass 20 become Used TO hardships