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Show Blnshker. She said that she had advanced him money upon his promise to marry hur, whieh'ho had failed to refund when the promise was broken. . It came out in the trial Unit he was anxious to marry her, but that his parents objected because be-cause she wasn't pinna enough. He admitted ad-mitted on the witnoss st;uid thnt this was the case. Ho said that his jmrents had threatened to cast him off, and to mourn for him as if he were dead if ho married the girl. "The main objection, it seems, was that she wouldu't shave off her hair and wear a wig as his mother did. The girl gave the keynote of the feeling in the orthodox ortho-dox community here when she said that "THEY DISCARD WIGS. " i JEWISH GIRLS ALLOW THEIR HAIR TO GROW IN THIS LAND. n Ritsnla and Folnnd Jewish Rnbbla Compel Maiden to t'lit Tlieir Raven Locks and Wear Wigs Here, However, the Cli-la l'lease Tlieimielvefi. From one of the old fashioned bonnes in East Broadway hangs this sign: ''Ladies' Barber Shop. Ladies' Hair Cut and Dressed." The visions of daintily jierfumed rooms and pretty women attendants at-tendants that may be aroused by this are not borne out by clever inspection. In fact these combinations don't flourish In that locality. But nevertheless the llace lias an interesting history. The proprietor is a square faced man with a bald head and brown mustache, lie is a Russian Hebrew, and learned the art of hair ili'i.ftsiiiff in Rii.niu. He niii('tierd she had refused to do this because tho custom had been generally abandoned, and localise she was an American and didn't propose to make a guy of herself. "It is ouly rarely that I find any women, wo-men, even among the old ones, who adhere ad-here to the custom. My work has grown away from what it was originally, and now it is mainly hair dressing, after the modes prevalent in this and all other I civilized countries.' Now York Sun. I It iu Grenuany and Austria, also, before Ike camo to New Yoilt to beautify the heads of tho east side belles. Many a blushing kalla, (bride) has had her hair dono up in tasteful coils by his nimbls fingers previous to her wedding. Business Busi-ness was dull the other day when a re-, porter culled upon tho barber. "Most of my customers are Jewish , girls, of course,". he said. "Times have changed greatly since I received my apprenticeship. ap-prenticeship. The girls are not so pious any-more, not even the daughters of the most orthodox families. There is a spirit of freedom in the air in this conn-try conn-try which overwhelms many of the old timo customs, and Jews do here many things which would cause their ostracism ostra-cism in the Jewish ijunrters of the Rus-eiun Rus-eiun villages. aiRLS WITH SHORT HAIR. "Wheu I first began my work all : Jewish girls aud women wore wigs. ! They clipped their own hair very close and wore the wigs over it. Before my , time they used to shave their heads. The reason for this custom was that Bomo rabbi had declared it proper. He argued that it subdued tho spirit of vau- j ity inherent in all women. His dictum j was tfenerally approved, and it becalm ; bo general a custom that no pious Jew- ish woman would have exhibited her own hair in public tinder any circumstances. circum-stances. "If by chance her wig was displaced and her own hair was revealed she con Bidered it a calamity, aud prayed earnestly earn-estly that her involuntary sin might be j forgiven. The wijs were never ullowed ; to be ornamental, but were always very jdain and common looking. This custom cus-tom still prevails iu the small towns and villc.ges of Russia and Russian Poland, j Elsewhere it has been modified. . "I was abroad a few years ago, and no- ; tieed that in the cities the women have established a new system. Instead of clipping their hair short all over tho Head they now let it grow in a bang i n front aud clip the rest. They wear little; skull caps over the clipped part, and only put on the wigs occasionally. Very few wear wigs in the morning, and they lo their marketing without them. The appearance of a lot of women with bangs Btrayitis from under skull caps is very oiVi. "The influence of America upon the custom is remarkable. It is well known. broad that it has been discarded here, and the result, is that most of the women immigrants are prepared for it. In fact I have come across a number of girls who let tlieir hair grow secretly under their wigs while they were still in their native villages, and threw their wigs overboard us Boon as they got on the vessels ves-sels that carried them to these shores. Of course if they had leen detected nt home they would have received scant courtesy from tho rabbis. J ;. A Vt'EER CASK. ; "It may seem strange that Chief Rabbi Joseph doesn't insist upon the continuance continu-ance of this custom in New York, but I imagine that ho has been advised that it would bo impossible to enforce it. Most of the women wait until they come here i before they let their hair grow. j "It is my business to train and trim it ' , af tvr it is grown. You see even the girls ' who have held to the custom until they ! come to this country give it np wheu ' they see how lonesome they aro here. It '. is no easy task to lis their hair, because ; constant clipping has stiffened and hard- -, ened it. It is amusing, though, that i these girls are very critical. Once they discard the clipping aud wig business they go to tho other extreme. It is as though all the natural vanity that has been pent up in them had suddenly been ; lot loose. "About a year ago I was called npon to testify iu a lawsuit about this custom. Alexander Levy, a Polish fur maker, had been arrested uuon tha charsra of Eliza |