Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-02-14
Short Hair for Ladies.

| know, to an absolute certainty, from
both reason and experience, aud real
blessing to women kind and everywhere.
ANY intelligent lady or gentleman must ad-
NIT that it is great tax upon US to have
so much hair to be done up and arrange
every day, and sometimes oftener for COM
mon life-t time, and amounting to many
thousand times just to suit foolish fashion
and because our mothers and grand-moth,
crs did before us Men have not submitted
and will not submit to this Inconvenience,
yet women have to- Long hair to the sick
and afflicted women every where over the
world, is absolutely burden, and to all
others it is great and useless inconvien-
ience. And where is the glory of all its
fair length so much talked about, when
done up in knot on the back part of the
head 1t is nonsense to talk of its length
as the chief element of bt auty, when tIlat
quality is forever concealed from human
gaze done up in style which makes it to all
intents and purposes even shorter Il an the
mems hair Where, then, is its beauty Z?
Are these knots of hair on the backs of cur
heads so very handsome? This rtund,
knottcd, imprisoned mass gives us con-
ception of any thing else except the length
of lady's hair. Must we sacrifice the
health of the hair, it's freedom, its flowing
nature, the comfort of the wearcr tie nat
ural shape of the head, and all things else,
for the sake of the length of the hair,
which after all. we We do not get to see in
the done up style :. not even as much as in
the flowing short style. Let the briefly
show in contrast the POINTS of difference
between short hair and done up hair.
When the hair is cut to a convenient length
in the neck we have the freedom of the
hair, its health, the comfort of the weurer,
its downward flowing nature, which poets
so much admire, and which is the natural
condition of the hair, and we have the nat
ural shape Of the head, always beautiful.
the underground of the hair behind, at the
juncture of tho head and neck is all con-
cealed besides the hair, when cut evenly
round in the neck, forms most beautiful
silked border and the color of the hair in
contrast with the wbiteness of the neck,
forms one of the most brilliant, beautiful,
and angelic contrasts in the world Then
we have greater show of the length of
the hair Now, contrast all the points of
beauty with the entire lack of the same in
done up hair, and then let any one decide
which style is the most beautiful And
how grandly flowing hair for women cor
responds with, and how symbolical of her
own gentle flow ng nature
Now submit the points I have made in
favor of the convenience, comfort, and
beauty of short hair for wcmen-which
are but few things that can be said in
its favor-whether the blessings that would
flow from it would not justify considerable
effort on our part to change public senti-
ment in its favor? | have every reason to
believe, from those I have talked with,
that there are thousands in our land who
would adopt short hair at once were they
not everawed by adverse opinion. But
they think, like thousands Of others. that
they might almost ssas well be ont of
the world as out of the FASH n. n.''--CoL.
Lady's Book.