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Show A SCrtOOL FOR HAIRDRESSINO. A New York Iturhcr Who Teaclie Maids Hour to Ie the llrttsh uml Comb. Perhaps the latest thing in the educational educa-tional line in this city was inaugurated Monday. It is school for hairdressers. It started with a Li.ir class of ambitious Toiinjj women, and the indications are that many moro will join. Women only are to be admitted to these classes, and the subjects of instruction will be limited lim-ited to tho dressing of ladies' hair. The pupils will bo taught how to comb, brush, shampoo, crimp, curl, sing, plait and arrange the hair of women. They will be instructed by experienced hair-3res hair-3res rs, and when they aro graduated they will be able to do all that a competent compe-tent "ladies' barber" can. The course will cover two weeks, and will comprise twelve lessons. The tuition is to be $10 for the course. "So many young women have asked me to teach them the art of dressing hair," said the owner of the place the other day, "that I was forced to open the school or use tip all my time teaching teach-ing them separately. Mosh who wist to learn nr ladies' maids. You see, it greatly ado's to their value when they aro ablo to dress their mistresses' hair properly. I do not think that there will bo any difficulty in teaching them in two weeks' time all that is necessary for them to know. I have several competent compe-tent assistants and 1 ehall superintend the work. Tho pupils will practice first on dummy wooden heads fitted with wigs. They are just as good to learn upon as the real head." "And can the girls become artistic hairdressers in so ehort a time?" "That depends entirely uiKin how much natural taste they may have. It is like any other art; to excel in it one must have a natural aptitude for Ilairdrcssing reqnires tasto. I may be able to teach a young woman the mechanical me-chanical arrangement of a coiffure, but I I cannot teach her just what coiffure is best suited to ft certain face. That requires re-quires a natural, tasto and many years of observation mid practice. But I will give my pupils much technical knowledge knowl-edge and such bints for self instruction that they may practice to advantage after they leavo the school. The school is my own idea. I do not know of another an-other one in New York. I believe that it will provo a success and that its influence influ-ence will be felt." "Will you teach to bleach and dyo hair?" ' If tho pnpils wish to learn the higher branches of tho nrt they may do bo of course after they have mastered the regular reg-ular course. But fnat is iiomething for after consideration; the main thing now is to start tho school and liegin tho work. I have now about thirty pupils to begin with." New York Sun. |