Show TRADE IN HUMAN HAIR the of the heads of whole farrilla Faro illa by the year there are wholesale firms in paris which send around agents in the spring to various bacton and other villages these gentlemen says all the year round arc provided with ribbons silk laces haberdashery and cheap jewelry of various kinds paying for alie maidens tresses in these goods or in ready money so far as personal beauty is concerned these breton laces do not lose much in losing their hair for it is the fashion in that part of france fur maidens to wear a close cap which entirely prevents any part of their hair being seen some years ago the light german hair was held in such esteem by the hair merchants that they gladly paid as much as bight an ounce for small quantities of it nearly double the price of silver light hair is collected from germany by agents of a dutch company who make yearly visits to various parts of the germania states the black hair imported comes mostly from brittany and the south of france and is as a rule very fine and silken the present century the heads of hair of whole families in devonshire were let out by the year an exeter periwig maker went around periodically cut the locks and oiled the ground thus left in stubble to stimulate a fresh crop |