People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — ARTFUL HAIRDRESSERS. [ARTICLE]

ARTFUL HAIRDRESSERS.

How They Make a Comfortable Living Out of Congressmen’* Wive*. There is in Washington a professional hairdresser who makes a comfortable living while congress is in session. It is an £asy matter, according to the Chicago Times, to get the name of the country politician. A note is sent to his wife asking permission to show her a more becoming way of arranging her hair. Some comprehensive hint is volunteered, with a mild compliment. The letter is marked “personal,” a verbal answer is requested, and in eight out of ten attempts the hairdresser gets an answer to call. Oddly enough it is the husband who urges her claim. lie wants his wife to look like other women. At home she is all right, but in cosmopolitan life she is something of a fright, and, although he despises himself for the thought, he is ashamed of her. In an hour’s'time the hairdresser puts a new face on the woman from the woods. She may not use an inch of false hair, but she wields a crimping iron in a way that takes years of farm life from her appearance. The troubled, shy old face is not made ridiculous; instead of curls the iron-gray hair is cleaned, brushed until it is fluffy, crimped enough to ripple and look three times its own quantity, and then it is dressed. J nsteud of the long iron wire hairpins little shell pins are used, and the coils are so lightly caught that the wondering wife reckons it will not be long before they all drop out. Women who refuse to have their hair cut into a bang arc provided with a false front, but in every instance the transformation is admirable. Tbe bill is sent to the congressman and it cheerfully paid