The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-14
Frederick Haskin's fetter


Warrington, d. G.. Aug. IA
fete in honor Of the man who In
vented the Marcel wave ID to be
held in Paris this fall By > host
OF grateful hairdressers. On this
side Of the water, Marcel 10 simply
. method Of curling the hair. In
Paris, Marcel 10 also . personAltty,
4 famous hairdreSser who retired
Is years ago with . comfortable
income.
Monsieur Marcel measures up to
most Of the fixed standards OF
greatness ~ set forth In magazine
articles on successful men. He was
poor and started ut the bottom OF
the ladder. Some day IN Ameri-'
can financial wizard IL going to
achieve super fame BY managing
to start out in life somewhere be-
low the bottom of the ladder. Mar
eel ran true to tradition, however.
He started out ~ . poor appren-
tice in a barber shop.
He further complied with Ameri-
can traditions by mysteriously
sensing the line where success
awaited him. He reasoned that
there should be better prospects in
theh business Of making women
beautiful than in the prosaic trade
Of making men appear civilized.
This was really q remarkable
conclusion for Marcel to reach be-
cause the women's hairdressing
business was slumping. There was
nothing startling, nothing very
monumental about couture styles
and women stayed at homo and ar
ranged their own flowing locks.
Yet the young French appren-
tfce who was to rescue the trad
from its precarious situation gased
into the future and had visions Of
success as q ladies' coiffeur, Is he
dreamily ran the razor over q Gus
toner's chin. Eventually fate and
his iron-jawed determination led
the young apprentice into Paris
ian hairdressipg establishment.
Here, again. he followed out the
| rules for greatness faithfully. His
first attempt at arranging q WON
ans hair, when he was 10 years
old. was total failure. The effec,
was 90 crude that the customer
angrily took down her hair and re.
arranged it herself. Marcel Wa
dismissed from the shop forthwith
Yet, from this inauspicious debut
or rather because Of 1t, the youne
apprentice rose to the heights Of
his art.
1t would take too long to point
out how Marcel developed almost
all the points Of the great Ameri.
can business hero. 1t is sufficient
to say that he is a noble example
OF the power of observation, per.
severance, patience, initiative
diplomacy, and modesty.
His Mother His Inspiration.
He was 20 years old, and en-.
gagged in hairdressing in Paris
when he noticed the graceful wave
of his mothers hair. He studied
it admiringly and thought with q
sigh Of the straight-haired womer
who came into the shop to be mad
beautiful. The methods of curling
hair then were tiresome and result
ed often in frizzled looking mops
Strands of hair were braided OF
rolled in papers and then squeezed
into kinks between the prongs of q
curling iron. Or else strands Of
hair were wrapped around and
around hot iron.
Marcel tried to copy the rollins
curves of his mothers hair with az
iron. He had little success at first
but as he practiced he worked on
a method, and dizziness and pre-
cision in using the irons came Il
him.
He had the idea that the wave,
could be placed successfully onl!
in soft, fluffy hair. He tried wav
ing such hair occasionally when h,
was asked to arrange a couture
Then a straight-haired woman VIII
had seen one of these curly Golf
fures came into his shop and de
manded waves. Marcel demurred
The lady's hair was stiff; it was no
the suitable type. But the Gus
toner had come determined to hav,
waves. Finally Marcel shifted al
responsibility and took up his irons
Later the customer sailed out tri
umphant in achieving her ambition
for curls, and Marcel decided tina
he had made an important discov
cry. After that he curled all com