American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-02
How to Arrange the Hair.

We are often annoyed by the incapacity
to see what is becoming to the face, or the
reverse. as well as the utter disregard o;
anatomy, evinccd by the pe77uquiers and
and their pitiably blind and thoughtless
victim. Worse than tine stupid sheep that
fights to follow its fellows to the slaugh-
ter-house. when means of escape offers
itself in another direction, is the woman
who, never having studied any rules of
art. wastes or defOrms the personal adj
vantageS nature may have bestowed upon
her. by following Il fashion which is I'M
suited to her. because it is the fashion.
When the style. beautiful and simple in
itself, but usually most trying TO the Eng
lish face, of wearing all the hair scraped
back, and bound into circle of close
plaits behind, came in. ten years ago.
every woman discarded the slOvenly net
that had been running the backs of her
dresses for two years, and scraped her
hair tight to her skull. She was right to
discard the net; but she was mad to force
the classic style upon herself, boz, gre. NAL
gre. The consequence was obvious; hard
~ one woman in ten looked fit to be seen;
for the head must be exceptionally fine,
the features exceptionally regular, that
can stand this treatment. Let every wO-
man study her face before she dresses her
hair, as she studies her feet before she
buys her boots.
IL she llluS llcT IOTetesiu IdrTOWlI1S
above the cheek bone. let her never fail tn
insert pads in her hair at the side. If it
be Il broad forehead. while her face is mar
row. let her avoid this style rig
idly, whatever be the fashion. If
her head is slightly flat. plaits across
it. or the hair turned over a cushion.
are the only alternatives; but if naturally
too high. let her give the fullness of HAIR
to other parts. If the head be perfect in
she lnth ar.,1 th.a foe
and make a point of showing a charm
that's exceedingly rare. 1t would be SIM
ply waste and ruin to pad it into all sorts
of shape.
One word against the huge bundles of
false hair now worn. Far be it from us
to Over-cOndemn the practice of wearing
false hair. This fashion will never go out
woman, and while, through age and other
causes. the glory is likely to become
s. Ichabod," and fall off.
Moreover. there are cases (since caps
are not in use) in which a few bands of eX-
ira tresses are more than an Improvement,
even a necessity; witness a very scanty
supply of hair, or hair in patches, on a
young head. And the practice is not a
dirty one, as has been unjustly asserted,
any more than wearing ones own hair.
Besides, if one is careful and patient
enough to collect it. one need never wear
but ones own hair.
But. 0, woman! beware of Diling on
your head a greater mass of hair than a
human head is able to grow. The huge
piaits of three, stuffed and padded, which
are so obriously artificial; the mighty ca
bes. half rs thick as ones arm, that rise
up aloft. and swell out behind, till the eff
feet of them, merely as burden, not a
beauty. is quite painful to the eye, in adj
dition to rows of ringlets, which. in them
selves, would require the whole head of
hair to form them these debased fashions
are a few of the many that detract from
the beauty OF the head aud face, instead
of enhancing it, imposed by foolish wo-
men upon themselves. The eye soon be-
comes vitiated, and does not perceive, in
fact, the vulgar and painful effect that is
instantly apparent to anOther.-S. Paups
for Septen1ber.