A HAIR REPAIRER

Globe, Volume III, Issue 209, 9 February 1875, Page 3

A HAIR REPAIRER

{From the Pall Mall Gazette.) An establishment for the "repair" of the human hair has lately been started by a hairdresser in Rampart street, New Orleans, Louisiana. The proprietor does not boast that he can restore hair which has gone, but he simply offers to plant a new crop. Hair, he says, being a vegetable, can be planted anywhere, and if the soil be fruitful, will grow luxuriantly. The operation, however, of grafting hair is rather painful. It is necessary to sew the new hair into the head with needles. The most astonishing results are, it is stated, produced by this system of hair planting. Any colored hair may be grafted on anybody's head. Brunettes may have red, blonds black hair; old persons black, and young grey hair, or a person may if he likes have his head " terraced," that is, laid out in patches of various colored hair—red, white, black, or brown, and in almost any sort of pattern or design. This style has been adopted rather largely in New Orleans, and seldom fails to produce a profound sensation. To those wh" cannot afford human hair, the professor supplies at a reduced rate horsehair, which is found quite as useful us a covering, and able to stand an immense amount of wow: and tear, with the additional advantage that it never requires combing or brushing. Many of the colored citizens of New Orleans will, it is confidently anticipated, take advantage of the introduction of the hair-grafting art into that city to get rid of the wool that disfigures their heads and replace it by more becoming locks, thus fitting themselves for the duties of American citizens.