Evening star., 1924-11-01
MAY MAKE RUGS
OF WOMAN'S LOCKS
Frenchman Proposes UtiIiz-
ing Yards of Hair Shorn
at Barber Shops.
ATLANTIC CITY, y. !.
Ry Consolidated Press

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NEW YORK, November 1.-Humsn
trcsses for carpets. rugs. mattresses
ornaments and tailors stifening-
these are some of the uses il has been
decreed that ladies' bobbed locks
shall be put to. 1t matters not II
they are black. brown. blond or white
fashion seems TO have decided that
the proverbial lock of woman's
hair must have more uses than 10 be
carried in mere mans locket or
made into a switch to be tucked into
the back of a bureau drawer against
the distant day when hair may be
worn long again.
Ever since it first became plain
that the average woman dared not
face the world with her hair in the
primitive, uncut state that Eve start
ed. there has been the problem of
what to do with the excess hair.
No one wanted it. The women did
not. Thousands OF yards of hair
were being shorn daily from off as
many womens heads. They wanted
no throwbacks to their unfree days.
The BARRIERS did not Whereas in
the days when frequenters of bar
ber shops were 100 per cent male.
tucked in a bushel basket and sent
to the city dump. now it takes
small sized truck to cart away the
load of long hair that goes with a
good days cutting.
The rage for short hair has never
died, as the pessimists insisted that
it would Women have not torn
out their few remaining locks and
wept to think there were not more
of them.
Switches. coaxed into lovely Golf
fures TO grace the feminine heads.
have long been out of style. and
seem apt to remain in discard.
Switches, as such. have no use at all.
French Start Something.
They had not. that is, until the ar
rival Of a dapper little Frenchman.
who stepped off an ocean steamer
here last week. From the smile he
wore as he crossed the gangplank
observers guessed he was up to some
thing moro than gay time.
Straight to the barber shops he
went. and there ensued a series OF
confabs, long and serious, which
eliminated in a meeting yesterday in
a big shop in Manhattan.
The Frenchman was the chief
spok esman. The BARRIERS listened hard
with brows that were knit in thought.
THE hair" they heard the French
man say, Is 100 DcdutiIul d tninS TO
be thrown away or to be put aside
and forgotten. When women with
luxuriant heads Of hair decide. to
have a bob they do it knowing that
their hair wiz grow in rapidly any
time they are willing. That Is why
they never take the shorn locks from
the barber shop with them anymore.
Yet IT is wicked to throw them
away"
And then. in a long drawn harangue.
the problem of what to do with the
excess hair was solved-and the ton
sorial artists, it leaked out. ac-
quiesced.
The reclamation of switches has
been pIanned-but switches Of a new
and strange variety. Human hair
can be woven. it seems, into very
lovely riding crops to furnish the
last touch to the fashionable eques-
trian habit.
Human hair. providing it is soft
and silky enough, can be woven into
charming little rugs. perhaps to grace
bathroom or complete a bedroom
suite. 1t can be worked into cloth
which would be more valuable even
than the "camePs hair coat material
which has had such popularity. 1t
can be made into attractive hanging
baskets to ornament the most luxu-
rious homes and conservator1sA