Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-03-22

for more ignorant locality. His
Paris house was selling long torsades,
OF standard blond and brunette at SIS
apiece. and the hair to make them
was averaging $12. Transformations
of the same tints and quality were
selling at between $25 and 90. Wigs
were selling at between $40 and $50
per kilo. Yet here were girls with
less than half kilo on their
heads refusing to be shorn for less
than 500 Do not be surprised at
these figures. They are moderate
for live" hair cut from vigorous Eu-
ropean girls. The cheap article is
brittle from strong chemical treat
ment-and dead Chinese women! Half
the present false hair comes from
China.
Some comes from an island in the
Caribbean sea where the most ma
lignant leprosy cases are sent by the
Cuban authorities. A little while ago
the head Of the glove department of
New Yorw department store pur-
chased switch in the false hair de-
partment Within two weeks from
the time she began to wear the switch
the upper part Of her body was at
tackled with a disease which several
doctors after consultation pronounced
to be leprosy.
Cheap false hair is dangerous. 1t
all comes from Indian and Chinese
people. If you must have false hair,
see to 1t that it is live hair. 1t will
cost more. but it's safe, 1t is said
that there are three qualities OF hair
in the market: fine soft hair cut from
the heads of live white girls. cheap
hair that comes from dead women Of
other races, and still cheaper which
is made into so-called rats" and is
said to derive its being, mostly from
different kinds of animals and to be
filthy. beastly stuff"
II will put notice in the place"
that am quitting Saint Martin d'Uri-
age after next market day" he SAID
TO Monzelun, the miller. THE young
men are standing in their own light
not to order their own girls to come
up and get their money!"
1.-THE young men are willing to sell"
replied the miller. "but they yearn for
better prices< A poor girls hair is
her marriage portion; but at the rates
you offer, 1t is as safe on her head,
You can always walk down to Gren-
oble and sell 1t at need; and mean
while more liberal buyers may hap
pen along. Our young men know that
hair is gone up"
IA little knowledge is d dangerous
thing" the buyer anskered. Because
/ have have given heavy prices for
a few rare heads, they must not think
that common hair is scarce. In the
next village l will find twenty marri-
ageable girls who are willing to trade
of their useless locks for the price
of young donkey"
He knew the miller would retail his
talk on market day. The miller In
these remote centers is the general
exchange Incoming peasants bring
their bag of grist to him across the
donkey's back, take home third in
-four, and trade the rest. Not twice
| year 10 tney 30 W 0reHOplo, twenty
miles down and back, up the innum.
cradle steep facets of the mountain
side They fear the city's unknown
ways. The buyer knew this when he
added:
"As for the girls selling at Gren
oble, why. we send hair to Grenoble
ready made up!"
But the buyer would not leave Saint
Martin Outrage without certain
treasure.
"our client is millionaire Ameri
caine." the great hair-dresser wrote
"We can offer you one hundred pei
cent on the lowest price you have tc
pay in case you succeed; and as the
lady has honored us with practically
unlimited order, will not conceal
from you that am giving this same
commission to several buyers. YOU
have carte blanche to match the sam
pie"