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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10580, 8 October 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)

- The water in Lake Van, in Asiatic; Turkey, which is about sixty miles long", by from twenty to thirty yards wide, is so strongly impregnated with potash that the residents along its shore'' Tlse. it to T\ash clothing ■without the use of soap. , . "

In preparing human hair for safe it is first assorted, combed, and washed !n boiling water, to which a weak solution of soda or ammonia is added, then, assorted as to colors. The short hairs are wound around little glass bars placed in a coke-heated kiln five or six days when they are ready for sale as "curls."