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Show HAIR-DRESSERS If ROVE WAYS Cosmeticans Organize to Promote Sanitation and Training CHICAGO. June S. The hair-dressing parlor where the same comb and brush encountered many heads each day without even the formality of submission sub-mission to soap and water is a thing of the past, according to Mrs- M P. 1 Halrd of Chicago, a prominent mem-bei mem-bei of the American Cosmeticians' ,is-sociaiion. ,is-sociaiion. Today sanitation is the I rule in an occupation to which 15 I years ago it was a word without .meaning, she asserted, and clean white aprons have tuppl ..nteri dubious black ones Improvement in jiafeguaros of I patrons' health hUS accompanied an 1 Increase in the i.urrber of ii ilr-dre3s-! lng and beauty parlors during the last 10 years; she added, of from 2600 to .approximately 10.000. exclusive (jf res-: res-: idential work done by 20.000 women, and the number is constantly in-! in-! creasing. REG1 LATOR1 bW8. Organizations of persons engaged in ! hair-dtesslng and related work in-elude, in-elude, besides th? American Cosmetic-i Cosmetic-i ian.V association, the National Halr-I Halr-I Dressers' association, v. hich will con-! con-! veno at St. Louis. Mo. July 81 to August 2. "Fifteen years ago." said Mr. Baird, I "the operators in halr-dre-sing had J never hoard of sterilization, and did j not know the meaning or the word sanitation. Wonn n elnned forward over bowls to have (heir heads washed and perched no in harber ehaira When they had a massasre. The use of elec-trlcity elec-trlcity was limited. Today sterilisers arc found conspicuously displayed in every booth, antiseptics are used generously, gen-erously, and massage hairs that are suited for tho work have been designed, de-signed, while In shampooing many ln-i ln-i novations have made ;t a com for: I rather than a torture. Schools for k'lrl ; giving scientific training have been established and today In many states In the union there are efforts ( being made to have state laws passed 'that will put 'his work on even a higher standard. I "To this end the American Cosmet-I Cosmet-I iclans' association was formed- The I founders designed to promote" unliorm j legislation for the profession of cosmeticians, cos-meticians, to provide methods of car- rying on and systematizing the business busi-ness of the membership, and to pro-i pro-i mote the development of the occupa- tion.' I The National Hair-Dresses" association, asso-ciation, according to its secretary. Mrs. I A F. CoagrtiVo of San Francisco, is organized to creat styles in America in artistic and becoming head dresses to soe that the best wigs, toupees and ! the like, are made; to have milliners seo the size of head dresses before , making head sizes in huts, and in oth-fer oth-fer ways to promote and elevate the ! business of hair dressing and hair j work. 00 |