Show NET gives employment to large numbers in parts of europe important business Buil nes in bohemia moravia and silesia work done mainly by women and girls for small wages wage washington consul joseph 1 I brittain of prague forwards the following account of the trade in and manipulation of human hair in the north of at austria in bohemia moravia and bile silesia sla the marketing of human hair and the making of human hair nets la Is an important business the chi chief ef cent centera era for the industries fire are found in the a southeastern out heastern part of bohemia center ing ng in the towns of Cho chrast and the bit business siness is both a factory and a home industry one class of human hair earning coming from china and the other class being a homo home product largo large quantities of what aro are known as combings aro are imported from china via trieste or Il hamburg amburg packed in cases wrapped in straw and weighing from to pounds per bate bale this chinese hair la is all chemically bleached in a solution tinn of hydrogen peroxide and assorted according to lengths then dyed colors and shades desired by purchasers the lengths vary from at six x to 35 inches T the he work of assorting and classifying the hair according to various lengths Is done by girls and women beginners being paid from 12 to 14 c cents find experts from 40 to 60 cents centa per day the dyeing and bleaching aro are done by men who receive 14 to 18 per month the human hair nets are made from chinese hair na as the native hair Is too fine and soft this business la Is largely a home industry the work being done by women and girls an experienced worker earns earn 11 from froin 24 to 32 cents per lay day but each net maker Is obliged to have an assistant to tie together the single fingl 0 hairs in order to save the time of the net maker each week the net makers are given a quantity of hair which they take to their homes and when the nets are finished and delivered by the workers they are allowed 20 per cent for waste rif n material the human hair nets are exported to the united states england franco france and germany very few being worn in austria the value of human hair and nets exported to the united states in was waa all of ft the hair cut here for or export 1 Is taken from tho the heads beads ot at ado peas jeaa ahls moravia aind and silesia tho the first quality comes from moravia and Bobe and the less valuable from silesia while a considerable quantity of interior inferior hair also Is cut in the quality of the human hair depends upon the prosperity of the people and the care taken of it before cutting the hair Is collected by peddlers or hair merchants who must be of good reputation in order to obtain their license these men usually accompanied camp compa nied by their wives make trips through the country lasting usually from tour four to six weeks going from house to house in their efforts to induce women find girls garla to part with a portion of their hair the maximum amount of hair generally purchased by a shrewd dealer on one of these trips Is from 11 to 14 pounds while many return with less than five pounds the price paid depends on the length of the tha hair and its color chiefly the latter |