Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22, 1911. DEAD HEADS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10171, 22 February 1911, Page 4

Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22, 1911. DEAD HEADS.

Tf (says, the Taranaki ' Ne>s) one is to believe cablegrams from China at the present time the authorities ,;t Harbin (where the plague is ragi 0,5) think it wrong to waste the whoie of ! a dead Chinese, so the hair of plague-killed folk is being .carefully removed and i will later form parts of the head l adornments of British and German ladies. The idea of a of society—a duchess, for instance*—charming her admirers by displaying the hair of a, defunot coolie who had no further use for it is peculiarly offensive. Mr John Burns, President of the Board of Trade, it is said, will take no steps to prevent duchesses wearing Lair taken from < plagued Harbin coolies, and it seems likely, therefore, that plague is not -transmissible in -this way. Germany will not permit the importation of hair taken-from dead heads, but it would seem to be a matter of some difficulty both to Mgulate ithe trade at the Chinese end and to decide whether potential chignons were reaped from the living or the defunct. It is- reassuring to know that British women who ure not blessed with a normal "fall of hair" have generally depended for an augmented supply on mere oas-

arat people in Europe, but natur,uly now there are so many dead heads well clothed lying about in China, it is likely that the London hair market will be livelier and that the prevailing colour will be black. Stray , locks, of course, arrive in New /inland from the world's hair depot— London—and the average man wh<admires a "woman's crowning glory" should at present evince even a greater interest in hair fashions seeing that individual triumphs of hairdressing art .may have been assist yi by the decease of a Chinese, or si I from plague. -