The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-04

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= 2 From useNelV York Times. Ia, y
am angry about the head.coverinR
that are being imposed upon women,
and which women are stupid enough tc
accept for the coming season, am
angry about them, and I am going 70
have my say about them and one or
two other matters that hayeiexcited my
organ OF eomoanvenesssin since the Fall
openings have took place. must get II
all on my mind. even!if have to speak
out In meeting;" and II all the women
of the period rise mn to. crush me be.
neathan avalanche of IilIIputfan boil-
nets and hats, or smother me under a
confused mass of chIgnons or false
curlsl Just look at them, all rushing
unless they call that n BIRDS nest OF an
affair. perched on the top of every wo-
mans head among them, bonnet or a
hat. They dress their hair deliberately,
as for an evening party, trick them
selves out in cheap isWeIry and then 60
upon the street in that way, exposing
head, face, neck, and sometimes more,
(Vide the square-cut corsagues) to the
gaze OF all the odds and ends OF human
ity with the same freedom that
they would within the Utmost privacy
Of their homes. This IS not the worst
ofit. Weare threatened with the al
most Arctic rigors OF a very cold Win
leLS anu Ine prevailing style - norfloleI
taken in reference to its bearings upon
health, good taste left out of the ques-
ton. Women cannot with impnnity
expose their delicate organs, rendered
still more sensitive by the heated at
mosphere in which they hRbitually live,
to bleak and freezing winds, which
cause even a robust man, under the
sheItering cover of his brimmed hat
and high-collared coat, to shrink shiv-
eringly. Last summer the bonnets
were somewhat larger, and large ven
gave them the semblRncs of inodesty;
but now the veil is almost done away
with, and the bonnets are airy nolh-
iDgs. What veXes me still more is.
that the hats, which / always regarded
as the most sensible of head coverings
worn. are following fast upon the bon
nets in their diminishing proportions,
so that now they barely perch upon the
top of the heRd-the face, the eyes, the
neck, especially the back of the neck
are all left unprotected. The effects
will be seen this Winter, in the increase
of cases of deafness, neuralgia com
plants, tic doloreux, toothache, rheu-
matism and opthalmiaS to say nothing
of fine compilations being ruined ana
premature wrinkles and roughness
caused by exposure of delicate skins TO
the cold. - 2
| Two years ago we bad reached the
happy medium in the fashion for head
coverings-now-W we are doing IL to death
on the side of smalIness-as our great
grandmothers went to other extreme OF
1Rrgeness. 1t is q noteworthy fact that
though fashion once in while reaches
a happy equilibrium, she is wholly un-
able TO maintain it, but must needs
wander away. into extravagant vag-
aries to satisfy her capricionS followers.
| And here, as anywhere else, extremes
are evil. Go into any fashionable
magazine and look at the head-gear
prospeetively prepared for the coming
season. All these articles are SO dis
proportiouately small that any woman
with face OF moderate roundness sees
at once the Rlaring want of harmony ;
lwhile frankly, fat-faced woman looks
like the full moOn with Tom Thumbs
nightcap perched on its apex. Nine
teen out Of twenty of American women
who affect fashion incline however TO
lean rather thantfat-so they will have
/ no trouble in that way; and those who
do wear hats or bonnets ridiculousiy
too small for their faces, viii never
have the sense to find 1t out for them
selves-at least not .onein a hundred OF
them. And this reminds me Of an ire
eoncaAbIe stupidity which is being
very fast developed in the Otherwise
sharp and wide-awake Characters
OF orr women. / say they are
stupid to rush to their millineIs
or dressmRkers, as they do, for
the latestnovelty in fashion, REGARDLESS
of its propriety or fitness taken in com
ljuncti0n with their personal appear
j anee, Just because they have seen some
other woman going down Broadwayr
| the notorious, and, OF course, compia-
cent WeRrer of this last sensatiou-oI
\ because somebody has told them that
such and such q thing IS the latest
l wrinkle. How many among them, be-
4 hnnnaE rNT1 n
lecting costume, Fsk themselves VIII
this be in keeping with my styief VIII
| it look we'll with tho other articles oil
Idress which have already selected
fDoes the color suit my eyes hair and
Il complexionf Are the cut and pattern
of it in harmony with my size and
4 height Is IL queit and lndy-ike2 And
lastly, Is the price IN just proportion 70
i my husbands or my fathsr's income OF
salary3 If more women asked them
selves any or all of these questions be.
1 fore getting mp their season tollettes
we should be seh0cked by the sight o.
lfewer moving feminine monstrostties
in our public thoroughfares and on thu
Esunny side OF Broadway, especially
dnring shopping hourss-iewer women
lWho seem to have been sent out as In
4 discriminate walking advertisement.
for their hair-dressers, boot-makeIs
Jewellers, milliners and UsodiSteSs ltki
il E0G OLl WIN EUuAlA6 0Le-144I 1AA1Lt
side by side with them, as living pla
i cards OF The Patent Nermin Destroye
and other "specia1ties." $500 ss-
Who the insane creature was who
EhaVing one day frizzed and combeC
out her two long Btreamers OF bach
hair, in ut of temporary alteration
Il forgot TO train them around the con
ventional cnrling- stick before pinDing
Them under her ehignon, must rem air
4 aipToblem for the present and futur
But whoever she was, shl
Il has had the honor OF inaugurating
4 new fashion in that line, since she ha'
found woman weak and tguoran
enough TO believe she was q sane per
son rejoicing in the notorlety OF IN.
4 me latest Paris sensations. I've seer
the thing In Paris myself but Away
ON American women or some OF Thu
j Parisfar dsDif monde. And then II j
SO much easier to put ones false hal
4 on without curIing tt.so much time ant
( troubie Is saved. it Is economical
4 too IS il does not have 10 be ''dpneup
i lso Omen. Suppose next some craz5
i | woman forgetE 10 aput,on her chtgnoi
! and eurls when she gets mp, nnd jus
twists mp that little knob OF back hal
-inpon which the chiguon hangs ant
sticks single hair-pain. in i 70 keel
II. up, and goes out on the s ,,5 ~
: thai? Ofc0urse, at drst they IL allsta
and not know what to make OF 1T Du
by-and-6y they Will become reeoneile'
;, 10 the fact, and receive Il with becom
; ing resignation s rs the latest style
Then Ii would be original you know
5 and In just as good tlsIe as ms ot lit
: ffIinRs. as for the matter OF thati an
fuYther. it would have the merit Of Nc
Z beiug a shams Bat pmsRfraid that Las
: lis merit which most fashionGbi
> women do not fully appreciate As Il
: taking care Of the hair that nature ha