Show DEALING IN HUMAN HAIR How makers of WIg and Switches Treat Their Stock In TradeD Trade-D aling in human hair is a peculiar business said the proprietor of a wig making establishment to a reporter People do not understand the ins and outs of a business that must on its face seem so simple Tho mere matter of obtaining hair with which to mako wigs switches and other hiirwork to adorn beads poorly I favored by nature seems easy but it is not so We have to exercise the greatest care in baying hair it being absolutely cessary to know from what source it has been obtained A great deal of hair I comes from tho ash barrels and garbage piles Yon can see that material of this Lliyl would not be at all desirable yet people often wonder why one wig costs four times as mucX us another when in appearance both are the same 4 The source from which the hair is obtained has n great deal to do in determining deter-mining the price of the goods If hair has be u cut form a fever patient the price asked is considerably lower than if it had been cut from tho head of a boa thy parson Hair retains diseasty germs longer aijanytliingFolBc Thin this is appreciated is shown by the fact that even after hair found in uncertain places has been put through the severe cleansing process to which all tho material ma-terial used io subjected still it does not command the samo price as tho healthy article One would think that this process proc-ess would kill oil disease germs bufc it does not seem to increase the value of such hair hWhen When hair is i collected it is thrown into vats of boiling water where it is left to boil for a considerable time After that it is put through a chemical preparation and then after being combed out and sorted in sizes it is laid away for a year We never use any hair that has not been treated at least a year Each box is marked with the date on which the hair was treated tho place from which it came etc so thai wo have a 1 full history of every bit of hair in stock We meet some peculiar people in our business You would soon bo convinced con-vinced that women cannot claim exclusive exclu-sive title to vanity Wo find men who are hairless mora difficult to please than women They insist upon having this bald spot covered just so and their way invariably happens to be the only way in which it cannot be fixed ItPitts burg Dispatch |