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Show GREEN HAIR FAD GAINING GROUND Special Cable to The Tribune. PARTS, Jan. 81. Advocates of tho groen hair fad have discovered that the peculiar mode was fashionable more than ' a hundred years ago. A numbor of portraits por-traits by Grassl were offered for sale this week, and ln every case tho men and women depicted on the canvases wore green hair. The historians now discover that Duke I Augustus of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg, ; a friend of Nopoloon, ordered Grassl to give the men and women be painted the j green hirsute adornment. The duko argued ar-gued that as hair was tho only vogota-tlon vogota-tlon on the human body, It should bo given the color of natural vegetation. So far, howover, the fad of green hair In Paris Is confined to tho dance hallo and gayer cafes. It has becomo the rage at tho Luna Park dancing palace, whero, on special days, an entranco fee of 55 Is charged, Hero tho professional beauties rub shoulders with socloty women wom-en and tho most roputablo dandles. |