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and that a lot of government secrets were spilled then. That was told probably because an imaginative hairdresser wanted to be very important. A lady's hairdresser always makes out that, if it's in New York, he knows all the cafe society talk and gossip, knows it for a fact, knows it personally, and if it's Chicago, he knows who's rigging the wheat market, and so forth. This is particularly true of the men hairdressers. The women are not such gossips, because to support their sense of superiority they don't have to know anything but style, whereas the man who has permitted himself to become a hairdresser, and comb and fix and fuss over ladies' hair, making them look stylish, has to do a great many things within himself to build up his own self-respect and his own sense of importance. He's always making out that he knows a great deal outside the field in which you would assume his natural interest was - that is, fashion style, and so forth, to say nothing of the technical details of how you take care of hair.

When the story was told originally, it was a man who made these allegations that the women had talked to him. And, of course, most of the hairdressers in the best establishments are men. It's fashionable to have a man hair dresser. A woman may own the shop and operate it, but she always employs one or two men as hairdressers. A man's hand in the trade is regarded very essential to making it just right. You hear women say, “Oh, I like Mr. Emile, or Mr. Frank. I want





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