HAIR GROWING INDUSTRY.
Thousands 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 an old woman, arrives at the village and a brisk trade is carried on. The Swiss girls make the most, as nature has betowed 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 obtained depends upon the length of the redundant tresses. Hair eight inches long is worth twentyfive cents an ounce, while that thirty-six inches in length will bring the fortunate possessor eight dollars an ounce, and in cases of exceptional beauty and thickness even thirty-five dollars an ounce may be realised.
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Patea Mail, 20 February 1882, Page 3
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136HAIR GROWING INDUSTRY. Patea Mail, 20 February 1882, Page 3
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