THE BACK HAIR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 171, 30 August 1879, Page 3

THE BACK HAIR.

!•’; iiair having come to be rccogn- dos a ueccs- ;>y of tlic modern femab i >.; : nee :: no. •: do ol interest

to lenr l.«tlii•> consiautly increasing want as siiiijdll;.. Liivc hair, bougut t; on iuot ” (to n-j tlic technical term of the trade;, const iiutes hut very small percentage oi the stock in market, and there arc few women who are willing' to part with their locks for money, and those wiio have superfluous locks to to spare growtewer and tewei ovily vmi, ’When s<-coud-haud trusses were needed morelv to famish wigs i.w elderly iatiios

agents found no difliculty in ’ securing a°suiiiciency among the peasant maids of Auvergne and ikittuny. The present demand/however, greatly exceeds the supple, and it is assorted that Paris alune nses more than all the available crop in France, and that Marseilles (the great centre of traffic in hair) deals with Bpain, tin; 'orient, and the two Sicilies for forty tons a. year of dark hair, of which she"make upwards of 05,0,00 annually. Under tiro name of “ dead hair ” are cm. wl the “ combings,” which thrifty scrv,,:.. girls save up and soil, the clipping of burlier shops,faded curls, worn out switches, etc. Hie scavengers of ever - / city, both at home and abroad, value nothing short- of silver sgjon among' the refuse so much as a snail of combing - !;,howovc r dirty, as it nil. imu a readv"sale. kuch iindingU are after-war-Is ’ washed with bran ami potash, vard.il, sorted, and then made into cheap limit cm is, puds ami chignons that abound in market. Much of this enters into the ergrades of 850,000 “ pieces” annually made in France, of winch enormous trade England is said to be the best customer, and America, almost as good. L-'-uo repot fcs on the commerce, ot bwatow, China, show that a large export trade in “ dead hair” gathered hi thoMcwber’s stalls sprang up in 1873, timing -widen year 11.800 pounds was exported to k-urope. 1n'1874 the exports of this refuse rose to 131,000 pounds, with a commercial value of over LSOOO. It is an undoubted fact, too, that ptuper corpses ’ are often despoiled ol their a air to meet ibis s.me demand of an increasing commerce. Those, then, who "sport other than thenown natural locks can nevoi be feme whether thso are redolent of the sepulchre, the gutter, or the servant girl's comb.—’Scientific -wui onca i.

HE WAS A DIPLOMATIST, A. vr-rv tail man with sandy enm whiskers entered tlio door, ihe cai W as full, and the only _ scat unoccupied y.y two persons was hi led with a- valise, a bundle, a shawl, and a thin woman of ili:rlv-five, with the slightest shade of red hair, and false teeth, the man with the sandy whiskers, tcelmg a sympathetic bond drawing him towards Ihe woman’s red hair, touched heron the, shoulder, and said — „ £ Is this aont engaged ') ” £i Yes it is,” snapped the woman, swelling ira m the seat that the man migm observe no possible room. “Ah 1” mummcod the. man., m a pleasant tone. 11m' he v. eat asm stood by tlio stove w < niuson for a while, presently ho relume ! to die some or ins reinin', and, and, k--unrig »m the arm or. the S-,at. said soil!yo'X beg your pardon, madam, but as 1 Vv'.is standing by tne stove join features struck me i is:o dim ly. An you c.ci alicnn a pi-oßideistud recepliOil at Vi UkliU’p,sou ? “ No, 1 never did,” replied tno woman but In u nulbcr voice iLm mo nad a-, iir.st assumed. “ Then you wii! please pardon me,” said the man vUh an apologetic an’ : -pine mistake was occasioned by your close resemblance to a young indy irom Philadelphia, who made her tk-bufc that seson, and whom I had tlio pleasure of meciiipg. She w.-.s cousidorod the belle of the season.” “2s T o—l never was in 'Washing'on,” remarked the woman m a moihiied tone. “It is strange how much yon resemble the young lady in question,’' the man. “ The hair is tiic same gome a line, and while her features may not have been so clear cut and Grecian in their—but therm excuse mo. 1 mn annoying, and tnc man started away• “ Don’t hurry,” said tlio woman, p’e.wairily. “Tiierc uosen't ap-ricaq to bo many eng . ; bond you sit hero I ” And’ she picked up her nam° ruU3 baggage. ' '**' Tiis man villi the sandy whiskers didn’t know, but finally accepted the invitation, ami in an incredibly brief space of lime had the valise and bundle in Uie rack above, tlio window to exclude - o draft, and'was regaling tlio ved-L ■ M woman with a cuoice collection -g anecdotes, that kept her iaagmug ini Iho passongars could ;?cc tao gums ot her falsa teeth. Very few of the jnushroom .stories now_ in circulation- are geruiine. There appears to bo a natural inclination in the human breast to he about tins denetde lung us. Thv Briiishors, Lr instunoo. bavo a palpable imlruiii in circulatioi about a murihroom which forced ns way through about 12 inches of concrete and a layer of {isphalix- in the Loudon Fost-olficp. But the Imu spar* ncy of the lie counteract:! tlio dcnr.ity of Luo concrete and destroys. the cohesion of the. usp-indt- most ciWc.uiivUy. Ui inuslirooms are. Kinder piercing, and that reminds us that onetime we built a house in Monterey on a grass plyt where the hoys used to got whole baskets ot mushrooms. Tim first rainy weather that cuuio just lifted that house S Let on tlio ground -in one night and the next morning there it stood Tjronpeu upon mushrooms, and U;c grocer and butcher had to hand their orders in with alO foot pole. The mushrooms couldn’t stand the weight of the house long, of course, because it was a threestorev brown stone front, with 11 .rooms and a bath tub, patent range and a grand man , so it gradually settlor down I bn. in Leg there was too mushroom i id ihe house, but [Tins story raid i stou iiorc lest truth tdioulti smlhr —Ivi.J