HAIR GROWING INDUSTRY.
Thousanda'of girls in Switzerland, Germany, and Norway devote themselves to the cultivation of their hair as resolutely as a farmer does his crops. Once a year the merchant, very often nu old woman, arrives at the village and a brisk trade is carried on. The Swiss girls make the most, as nature has bestowed upon them an abundant crop of the blonde color, which is the hardest of all to obtain, and the climate is evidently propitious to its growth. The price ob'fiined depends upon the length of the redundant tresses. Hair eight inches long is worth twentycents an ounce, while that thirty-six inches in leugth will bring the |fortunate possessor eight dollars an ounce, and in cases ot exceptional beauty and thickness even thirty-five dollars an ounce may be realised.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1009, 27 February 1882, Page 3
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134HAIR GROWING INDUSTRY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1009, 27 February 1882, Page 3
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