The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 13, 1923, Page 4

PAGE 4 ————. Learns That American Swiss Girl Sees the Inside Secrets of Seattle’s Beauty Parlors Note —Johanna Leh {beauty parlors, their methods of\ training workers, the prices ap prentices must pay to learn the) trade, and the prices women pay foe beauty porlor treatment. Miss Lehmann worked In several shops to obtain this Information, The following is the second of her ar Heles tolling of her experiences. / : ier) BY JOHANNA LEHMANN ; Weil, the noxt morning, I went & snow-white apren to work Ta Polet, Passing a staring hiner, 1 went upstairs to the rior, A beautiful entrance-room ih blue carpets and blue-ribboned Urniture spoke for good business. he manager, a lady with a French and smiling eyes, introduced to several white-aproned girls, sa the beauty in their faces I imired before so much, F With three other apprentices I Shad to go for practicing, “First Mhiiig you have to do, ts to buy the Manicure instruments and the curt oe frons, which cost $4 each.” ‘Again an expense for the poor ap- Prentice,” I thought 4 As tt was stil] earty in the morn- the employes had nothing to i and sat around and “fixed themselves up.” 1 began to under. Johanna Lehmann | LETS APPRENTICE loped under | airdresser so and so many starving children in the old country, THE SEATTLE STAR FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1922 . | _ Beauty Comes in Boxes: bland that tho beauty lays in pots |PRACTICE ON HER HAIR | @nd boxes and sticks, Learning to Handle a curiing-iron, that is, turn. Ding it around as quick as I could my arm ached, 1 walked }had to alt st } noontime cami One of the other apprentices wished to practice on my hair, So 1 for an hour and when sho had-only one side ind tn the parlor, watching the |of my hair curied and I had io go iris, One of the younger girls | for lunch with ono aide Like a water ly fixed her face so sur-/ Fat and the other side like 4 wild isingly that It looked like a doll. | man. she was very fair, tire contrast of he I admired dark eye. Dut « pot with dark paint | We could go home, I ha After a while customers came in, the day was not very busy. pyway, I saw some elderly ladies jppear behind the white curtains @ when I pased with my swing- fron and glanced in, I noticed 'Los Angeles Woman Tells of Wonderful Experience GUSSIE E. HANSEN Gussie E. Hansen, of 916 W- 8t., Is now numbered with the ude of Los Angeles men and who heve realized the won- | merits of Tanlac. In relating ‘€xperience, Mrs. Hansen said: =) “Tt ts wonderful what Tanlac will for one suffering from stomach €, Nervousness and a run down on. I have tried it and know experience. *Before taking the treatment hing I ate disagreed with me that I had terrible gas pains after ery meal, and got where I just ded to sit down to the table. I fered from constipation also, had Pains across my ‘back, and is sO nervots and run-down I was misery all the time. “Tanlac was helping #o many here in Los Angeles that I ught it might help me, too, and pat certainly has. Why, my appetite pgs just ‘splendid since taking the r ent, and my stomach ia in h good order I eat to my heart's mt. My back doesn’t bother me More, and [ sleep like a child at ght. I can’t say too much for Tan- take no substitute. Over 37 lion bottles sold —Advertisement. YOU CAN DEPEND ON Quick Relief from Stomach Ills A teaspoonful tn a glass of hot water each morning will keep your stomach well, f b JoTo on Hand 50¢, $1.00 and $1.50 Pkgs. Por ante by And a 1, be never finished my hair at uso she fixed herself }the whole afternoon, At 4 o'clock a the fecling that if I were really an apprentice | in that business I woud! cry, because | during the first long day I did not} learn more than turning and ing tho In pald $100 to learn that trade, would h u stole the first from mo. Anyhow, I pron and went away and| t I didn't have to stay, | ‘elt disgusted and a of my own #ex. i0ES TO SOCIETY | | ! | BEAUTY PARLOR The next morning I went to tho “Society Beauty Parlor.” Mr. Shel ton instructed me once more that he | engages only apprentices who want | to stay afterwards In his own bust | ness, and he proved with his books that a good worker gots about $30 a week. Hoe said that I had to decide, | whether I would learn the trade and | pay the $100 and of course, buy again | the curling-iron, manicure. {instru- | ments, aprons and so on. l asked: “What has a girl without | ‘any money to do that haa tho eager | desire to learn the trade?” “Well, she can borrow !t and pay {t back later, but I have to have it,”"| ho said.” } "Unfortunate poor girl! And If doesn’t get a positon after. | “There are still many ponttions for | clever girls, and as [ said, I began to pay them after the first four 0} five weeks $4 to $5 weekly, Wha! do you decide?” “Could I look around for two or} three days and then decide?” | ‘At last he agreed to that and in-| troduced me to his employes, There | I had now to sit the whole day tn | the front room without any work. So I watched the people that camo | in. The day brought many young ladies, whom the beauty-culture made in time into regular dolls, with- out personal note. I studied how/ thess girls might look fm the morn- ing without the patnt and cream and powder, Or what effect a kiss on thelr lips might have? Or how they would look if I took them with me on one of my beloved glacier trips, where the sun burns tho skin thru and reddens the nose? OUT OF A JOB THE NEXT DAY All the working girls were very busy the whole day and I saw that the cashier had the whole time to ring up the cash; $1 for marcel, $1 for shampoo, 50 cents for manicure, and #o on. As there were no other apprentices, nobody cared much for me and at 4 o'clock I took my apron and went away, The following day I was out of a fob, 80 I walked around to seo it somebody wanted an apprentice. The Beauty Parlor May-Helland wished no such girl, because they couldn't bother, they said; taey have only well-trained people, because only the soctety world wants thelr ser- vices, The samo answer I received In the beauty parlor J. J. Wittwer & Co, (To Be Continued.) “Air” Promoter Must Go on Trial William Wallace LAeurance must go on trial on a grand larceny charge. Ho ty accused of sellins| stock In a device to extract power | from the air, His $1,500 bond has| Just been ordered canceled by Judge John B. 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