Evening star., 1939-08-06
fTWenty-Second OF q Series
BY TOM AND HARLE DAMMANN

!
BY TOM AND HARLE DAMMANN.
/ SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia There,
/ is that so fine as they do it in Hol-
! lywood?" The girl in the beauty
shop smiled hopefully as she held
the mirror for me to see the tight
curls on the back of my head.
"Oh, yes, it's fine" I assured her,
as 1 started to pull on my hat.
No, no." she stopped me- You
must not wear your hat; it will spoil
all our work"
l agreed with her, paid my bill
and after a few words, rushed out
to hurry back to our hotel to try
and comb out the damage l had
made the mistake of telling her.
when l first went in, that 1 was
from California No, not Hol-
! lyWood, but near it" Conse-
quently the usual time required for
a shampoo and wave had doubled,
! as all of the people in the shop
/ tried to help in the job of fixing
| up the American Their questions
about Hollywood were endless: What
actors had I seen? What were they
like? What was Hollywood like?
Is it always warm there? Are there
! lots of trees?
/ 1t was to no avail that l tried
/ to divert the conversation. for l was
! in Ljubljana, the capital of the
/ northernmost province of Yugoslavia
/ Not many Americans get to this small
! place, and certainly very few to this
particular little shop. So they
weren't going to let me get away
without telling them a bit about
America.
Quick Service Unknown.
However, I have finally resigned
myself to the fact that a trip to
beauty shop means sacrificing an
entire morning or afternoon. In
Europe such luxury as a quick
shampoo, wave and manicure COM
pleted in less than three hours is
unknown.
Italian shops are the most tedious
In them all work is done by men,
| who are so gentle and artistic in
| their manner that to give a GUS
toner vigorous head rub would be
a shock to their senSitiVitieS. In
waving they seem to take each in
diVidual hair as their personal re-
sponsibility and not until each one
is in what they consider its proper
place is it possible to leave the shop.
Hats annoy the hair artistic eSpe-
cially. and on one occasion, after
particularly long siege, was begged
to leave mine in the shop until the
next day-assurance that every one
would see the handiWork.
Separate Shop for Articles.
But the beauty shop is by no
means the only place where it takes
an uncommonly long time to get
things accomplished.
In America we accept, as mat
| ter of course, the corner grocery,
with everything from eggs to
brooms; the faithful drug store and
the department store where men,
women and children can outfit
themselves without putting their
noses out the door. Over here,
except for Paris and London, such
things are totally unknown. In
stead, there is separate shop for
practically every article one requires.
To begin with-the kitchen. Cof-
fee and tea are sold together, some
times accompanied by rum and
ginger, Flour and grains have their
! special shops. A cheese shop can
be anticipated from far down the
street. Meat and fish require two
separate stores and canned goods
have their own niche China, glass
and even pots and pans-each is
sold exclusive of anything else.
Then there are perfumeries for
perfumes and cosmetics; apothe-
carries for drugs and prescriptions.
Ice cream sodas are occasionally
found in bar. bar, by the way, is
a universal word. In every country
we have been we have rarely failed
to see the word on a sign, even in
the smallest towns. Once we saw
American Bar" in large gold let
| ters on the side of a white and gold
winged ice cream wagon)
To 60 to each separate place for
each necessary article makes meal
planning and shopping quite diff
ferent thing from what it is where
we have the grocery to run to.