Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1906-09-30 | Page 32 | Egg Gatherers Use Hair Ropes

Egg Gatherers Use Hair Ropes Hopes HE of St Kilda THE T consider themselves rich if 11 their prospective brides are able to furnish them with a ropo rope of ot human hair The ropes rop s vary var In length a really good one of forty or fifty feet teet being es en especially especIally prized The usual kind Is a stout hempen cord wrapped round and round with wool over this is a alining alining alining lining of horsehair finally brands of ot human hair To ro manufacture such a n rope Is the work of at years but the St girl scrupulously saves her A curiosity collector wished to buy a afine aline line fine specimen of but the otter offer was refused r fus d The cord in question was veneered with auburn hair the thirty years col collection oi lection from heads of ot parents aunts and cousins c