FALSE HAIR IN FRANCE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 688, 25 June 1875, Page 3

FALSE HAIR IN FRANCE.

0 The fashion of wearing chignons and false hair has given rise to a curious and interesting tr ado, in respect of which the continental Herald gives some particulars :—During the first half of the present century there was such a slight demand for artificial locks that the price of human hair in Franco was only about eight francs the kilo. The enormous increase in the value of the article which has since that time taken place begun with the Empire. Between 1852 and 18C3 the price ranged from sixteen to twenty francs the kilo ; but when, in the seven following years, the ladies of other countries became smitten with the passion for exuberant cheveleures, prices rose up by leaps and bound, and dealers in false bair must have made rapid fortunes. The rate per kilo, which was quoted forty francs in 1886, was no less than one hundred and five francs in 1871. This however, is merely the value of the raw material; that of the manufactured article is much more considerable. A single chcvelure of a common sort can be had for ten francs, hut one of clear, pure blond, of qhality decidedly superior, sometimes fetches as much as two thousand trancs. Brittany and tho Auvergne are the districts in Franco which make tiro trade in raw hair a specialty, and it is said that maidens of those provinces, who were at one time sufficiently unsophisticated to “ soil a head ’ for a ribbon, a handkerchief, or a piece of flash jewellery, have become sufficiently shrewd to demand most exorbitant sums as tho condition of such ‘ alarming sacrifices.’

Tho Chicago Tribune says it’s shampooing -which makes so many men baldlioaded, Tho occasional handsful lost in family disturbances are provided for by nature. Ou Thursday night, -when a Sixth-street man had to go to Wyandotte on business which detained him all night, his wife hardly [slept a wink from fear that ho would get hurt, yet ho had not been home over an hour yesterday morning when it took two policemen to unclasp her fingers from his hair and pry her teeth off his oar. —Detroit Free Press. A Spanish proverb says; 1 A kiss without a moustache is like an egg without salt.’ 1/