Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1919 — STYLES IN HAIR DRESSING [ARTICLE]

STYLES IN HAIR DRESSING

Savatjes Have Some Really Remarkable Ways of- Treating Their Kinky Head Covering. Savages are fertile in the invention of hair contortions. Moslems have been known to shave away all their hair save a small clump in the center, which they think will serve as a handle by which they maybe lifted up to heaven. Natives of the New Hebrides twist their hair into as many as (W whipcords. The person who can show the greatest number of these thin-hair cords is regarded as one of importance, and -is reverenced accordingly. Papuans wear large bones entangled in their hair, but Maoris go one better and only allow sharks’ teeth to be. used. The look tins, a savage ‘ West African tribe, train their hair into a jCrest. rising not less.’-t-han 12' inches in height, and then let it fall backwards, fan shaped. In Samoa the women dress their hair to a shape somewhat resembling a gigantic royal crown. On the top of the crown, whi ch, i s upheld by numerous thin • bones or ttvigs. they place a wreath of garlands. A wealthy Kaffir trains his hair into a coni, open at the top. and articles the American stows away in his trousers’ pocket the cunning Kaffir puts in his hair.