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For A Hat
Top flight hair fashion artists
and stylists in the famous'` sal ,'
fans are now busy planning their
next season's coiffures. Why do
they undertake this highly ex-
pensive business? A stylist can
create a hair fashion that will
earn hundreds of thousands of
dollars. Yet he gets little .or no-
thing out of it, except perhaps
some grudging admiration, if he
nen prove that he invented the
style.
To whom,, then, does the for-
tune go? It goes to thousands
et salon owners who cater for
the fashion world. There is no
copyright to a hair style. Once
JI has been introduced and it
Batches on, any competent hair-
dresser in Macclesfield or Min-
neapolis or Montreal can copy
it and sell it to women as his
Own work.
An unknown London hair-
dresser produced a fashion about
Ise time of the first world war
that not only earned hairdress-
ers millions of dollars, but also
nude permanent waving a pay-
ing proposition and created the
modern women's hairdressing
business. This was the "Bob,"
16e first modern short - hair
eerie. -And the man who created
it was almost certainly a men's
hairdresser.
The "Shingle," which followed
e.i6; made nearly as much. No
ane knows for certain who in-
vented that, except it must again
have been the work of a men's
hairdresser, because they are all
expert cutters of hair. Few
ladies' hairdressers can compete
with them in this branch.
A more recent style — it swept
*e world — was the "Page Boy."
credit for that simple fashion
"oust go to the film studio hair-
dresser who dressed Greta Gar-
bo's blonde locks. Garbo the
Omit, incidentally, was a hair-
dresser before setting out on
bar fabulous film career. But
Se a women's hairdresser. She
worked' in a men's saloon, shav-
ing
bristly male chins and cut-
ting
Garbo's long - lived contribu-
tion, the "Page Boy," however,
cad of making a fortune for
dressers, nearly ruined them.
lost them millions of dollars
Britain and the United States.
This was because the style
' Mild be fixed easily by a wom-
ea herself, without the aid of
it.. professional hairdresser. It
only too easy — the hair
not even need to be cut,
brushed smoothly over the
d and the ends lightly curled
wards.
Hairdressers have never for -
n Garbo for publicizing this
}icon with such unwitting but
dly effect. The fact that she
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worked in the business mere-
added a load of salt to the
wound!
In days gone by hair stylists
were people of great importance
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SALLY'S SALLIES
'"You know, dear, this business
If looking beautiful is really
an art."
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JU.,IK LINE TRUNK LINE — Edward Heintz, neverquit working on railroad cars when he retired!..` -
He simply transferred his affections from the Railroad, where he was a car carpenter, to a
brand-new attic railroad. Now 68, he's been working four or five hours a day on his hobby
since he retired. He has built 150 cars—gondolas, coaches and cabooses—mostly out of oil cans
from gas station rubbish bins and scrap lumber. He has two miles of track, has built switches
and even a three-level elevator. His only purchase was a pair of locomotives. "It makes me for-
get a lot of the world's troubles/' says Heintz.
in society and they amassed con-
siderable wealth., .In Napoleon's
time they had carriages and liv-
eried servants. Frederic, hair-
dresser to Napoleon's Josephine,
had a special position and. priv-
ileges at court which would nev-
er.be accorded to the royal hair-
dresser in England.
Hair fashions In those times
were the key to dress and mil-
linery styles. The dress design-
er was compelled to follow the
work and ideas of the hair
stylist, whose work outshone his
own.
Styles were highly ornate and
complex. As• many as six hair-
dressers would•w work on one
coiffure. Towards the end of the
eighteenth century, hair was of-
ten dressed up to the height of
three feet. Women who wore
these creations had to sit on
the floors of their carriages, and
those who slept in their coif -
tures had to have special wood-
en rests made for their shoul-
ders and neck.
Because flour was used a good
deal in the dressings to keep
them stiff and in shape, one not-
able lady always went to sleep
with a mousetrap concealed in
her hair to prevent mice from
eating her coiffure!
These fantastic hair styles,
which stylists could repeat to-
day if they were ever required,
sometimes cost their wearers
well over $500 ,a time, plus the
high cost of maintenance.
One of the most remarkable
styles in the whole history of
hair fashion was that produced
during the French Revolution.
It was called a la Victime au
Sacrifice. The hair' was drawn
up well from the nape of the
neck, forward and over the
crown, as it was arranged for
the scaffold, the only difference
being that it fell on the fore-
head in a bunch of curls.
Pale face snake -up was used
los
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to emphasize the macabre effect
and a scarlet ribbon was tied
round the neck. This coiffure
was worn by young aristocratic
ladies to show their contempt
for the guillotine.
The new styling among men.
will undoubtedly le ad to the
use of the new hair make-up
techniques. This will be due to
the lead given by certain middle-
aged TV stars and stage stars
who never seem to go grey and
mostly have curly or wavy hair.
This is induced by the old de-
vice of blow waving and discreet
use of permanent waving.
The biggest men's hairstylist
of the century was the hair-
dresser, now dead, of the Wal-
dorf Hotel. He was the famous
Browne who invented the clip-
ped moustache and the various
military haircuts which have
lasted for so many years. He
made a fortune, lost it in pros-
pecting for gold in South Af-
rica, and then returned to Lon-
don to take up his old job
until he died a few years-. age.
Croco s, Savages; --
Guard Scailety
Two hundred nien live in • ex-
ile in the land of Mtumbu, the
sacred crocodile, and more
than half of •them are wanted
far murder. The land lies mid-
way between Angola and
South-West Africa, in the arid
region of Ovamboland.
Neither the murderers, nor.
any of the other fugitives who
are wanted by the police for
every crime from blackmail to
forgery, ever return to civili-
zation again. ,
In the past thirty years only
one man, John Hepburn, has
returned from this wilderness
over which no government
rules. Though, of course, no
criminal himself, Hepburn was
able to study the life of the ex-
iles.
The Ovahimba aboriginals
who inhabit the area owe alle-
giance to no country except
their own. The Portuguese,
who rule Angola, and the
South-West African admiini-
stration have stated that they
want nothing to do with this
piece of infertile, barbarous
land fringing on the muddy,
dangerous Kunene River.
The tribe of Ovahimba, it was
stated by Hepburn, are about
10,000 strong, but being cursed
' with too many girl babies,
more than 6,000 of the tribe are
women and girls.
At infrequent intervals the
warriors made forays into An-
gola and the rest of Ovambo-
land to steal male children
aged from a year to five years.
These children are reared as
members of the tribe, and are
brought in to swell the dimin-
ishing number of males.
Every quarter, at at the full
moon, two girls, who must be
under fifteen years, are sacri-
ficed to Mtumbu, the sacred
crocodile, in order to ensure a
little rainfall and a crop of boy
babies:
Pambegele is the recognized
chief of the tribe, and to hien
the white outlaws go when
they arrive in the territory
ruled over by the crocodile.
Presents are given, and the
men are welcomed regardless
of what they might have done
in the past. The great scarcity
Of males forces the dying tribe
to adopt any male who arrives.
There is only one condition
Attached to entry into the area.
That is that the wanted men
will take from four to six wives
from girls among the tribe and
father children.
The men have a free choice,
but adultery is punishable by
death—death at the jaws of the
crocodiles which infest the ICu-
nene River,
On the Clay when a sacrifice
is to be made, the girl victims
are led to the centre of the
stockade close to the river,
where they are prepared with
a pagan ceremony which in-
cludes the anointing of the
body with oil.
The crocodiles know when
victims are to be brought to
them. They sense it in the beat-
ing of the tom-toms and the
chanting on the river -bank.
Slowly the first one comes
from the river and moves to-
wards the first girl. As the cro-
codile ne^"s the girl, the tribe
fall on 1 r faces, and a low
moan esceees them.
For some years raids were
carried out on the area by
Portuguese and South-West Af-
rican police, but with no suc-
gess. A system of espionage
warns the tribe days before-
hand of the approach of police,
with a result that everyone is
hidden in the rocky mountains
close by when the policemen
arrive.
In 1931 three notorious mur-
derers,`wanted for at least ten
murders each, managed to find
sanctuary in the land of the
crocodiles.
A large police force was as-
sembled and sent to fetch the
men and any other wanted
criminals hiding among the
aboringals.
When the police arrived
there wasn't a trace• of the
tribe, but more determined offi-
cers led an expedition into the
mountains to seek out the tribe
and the murderers.
Of some forty well -armed
men who ventured into the
mountains. Only Four Came
Out Alive. In the night, poison-
ed arows rained down on them.
A few years ago two men
held up a bank and shot dead
a bystander, a teller, and the
manager. They escaped and
disappeared. Later a police pa-
trol plane saw a small car
heading through the desert
near the Kunene River.
A police desert truck was
despatched in pursuit. The
small car was found abandoned
on the banks of the Kunene,
but of the men there was no
trace.
A few months later a magis-
trate received a taunting note:
"Come and get us if you want
us." It was signed "The Bank
Robbers." They are still at
large Somewhere in that vast-
ness.
Prospectors after gold and
diamonds have gone into this'
land never to return. There is
on record more than a hund-
red names of men who went to
the !Cunene and north-west
and north-east in search of the
;o -called. Mnoi tpin of rm,i.
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They all vanished, but word
has leaked out that most of
them were alive years after-
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tribe, who forced them to take
wives.
Being a no-man's-land there
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