"perms" for Men

Opunake Times, 16 September 1941, Page 3

"perms" for Men

Master hairdressers, assembjed in conference iu Sydney recently, gave serious thought to the curlipg of men’s hair. The vice-president of the Federal council, Mr. Arthur Jockel, described how men generally were vaiuer than women. If Hairdressers had cubicles for men tha psychological effect would be so great that they would gladly have permanent waves, message, and , special treatments. Many men wore alraid flint if they adopted a more elaborate hair style they would be considered effeminate. lie admitted that he had laughed at the first male client who had asked for a permanent wave, but he had welcomed the second reguest. The Federal president. Mr, G. H. Blyth, deplored the decay of the art of hairdressing. “We have allowed shearers, butchers, and wharf labourers to use the clippers,” he said. The president of the Victorian Association, Mr. Charles Potts, said that there seemed to be only two styles of hair dressing for men, the short aad the shorter.

Priceless Seeds

Germans are selling flower oecds stolen from Holland and France at iiigh prices in order to obtain dollar currency. Tlic value of some flower seeds is so great that a small package seiit by uost may realise a thousand pounds or more. Tor example, the Petunia Sakata, which produces double flowers, has seeds so small that there are 200,000 to the ounce. * A packet of 600 seeds costs the customer ten shillings, so the price works out at £2133 a pound. There is a scarlet gloxinia, the scent of which is even more costlv than that of the Sakata. It is—or was a few years ago—priced' at £9OO an ounce. In Ceylon seeds of a new variety of cinchona have fetched.£2oo an ounce. Most costly of all are the seeds of the rarer orchids. They are so tiny that they are almost invisible to the /naked eye. There is one variety of which it takes 230 million to make ; pound. There never was a pound of these sepds in existence, but, if such a thing were possible, a million sterling woulJ bo a small price to pay for it. Bilingual Faux Pa«

.Although many of the notices on the hospital ship Oraujc in Dutch and English have had the Dutch pan blacked out, % there are many that have not been so adjusted, and in parts of the ship a rather startling bilingual designation strikes English eyes. “Bad” is the Dutch equiva-, lent of “bath,” and outside a women’s bathroom is the following:—“Ladies’ Bathroom —Bad Dames.”