New-York tribune., 1875-08-21

quid of a quotation in my mouth. II matters
little what the brand. If the Soace of
Scott be not handy, Tennyson's Fine Cat
will serve; failing that Bryant's Century, Longfe
lows smooth Cavendish, or Stedman's Honey Leaf
come to be rolled like sweet mOrSes between my
lips; in default of other choose or choice even essay
TO .niaw upon the plain plug of Walt Whitman. This
habit must be amended-and have made a note OF
il accordingly.
Nv mother bids me bang my hair.
Or does the poet say "bndF' II their mothers
bid them do il, the girls are excusable-for girls
should mind their mothers in little things,
50 as TO earn the right 10 do iust as
they please when big differences come up-but if not
they deserve 20 have their heads banged for their
pains. There is nothing graceful in the fashion,
every principle of art is violated nothing of nature
except suspicion OF ill-nature, perhaps-is sug-
ces.ed For man who is bald back as far
a. the crown Of his head to bang his hair
forward and conceal the Tavages of the moth and
vandal rs well as he can NAV not he morally wrong,
but the girl Of the period Should pause on the
pr. cpice of the forehead if she do not TO full
stop. If you bang your hair fair maiden, why not
wear bangles as we'll Both wears are Oriental.
The Chinese yirgin bangs her nut-brown hair over
her almond eyes as a sign and SYMBOL the bang is a
the Scottish lass. The Buddhist bangs you bang
for use and not for ornament
Bnt bad as fhis imported fashion is. do indeed
think IL preferable to the plasterng down Of the
hair in wavy lines and scoops so much affected by
women of the day. They think il nice, undoubtedly
but i. looks nasty, and one thinks but OF glue and
am as lie qazes. style more unbeeomIEg To the
contour of the human face could not be devised by
the most diabocal ingenuity. The idea of thus
mastering down what was intended TO be free and
dowing of arranging in set scOiOps that the
charm of which consists in its very uncon-
fnedness and rregularity, of deprlving the
crowning gloIv of woman's head of all
It's life and spirit is rcpugnant to all the canons OF
good taste. Ont upon you women why VIII ye
thus deface the temples which the Almighty made
beautiful You ask TO be allowed to vote, clamor tor
admittauce into co eces ask TO he allowed 10 assist
in the making of laws knock at the doors Of the
Learned professions and srevl If they he not opened
unto you, shrek ont to the stars mild complaint
about being downtrodden, and yet come got
up in this most outrageous gTiise . Think ye 10
i'll the chambers of the brain with languages
and ologies 7 Why not learn to arrange the out
side Of your heads decently and becomngly before
hotherinr much about the in II you must scol-
lon something seoop your brains, good sisters :;
plaster them down in fanciful curls and qurls; hut
let your hair float free. Glue your morals 70 the
mast, if need be- gum your manners INTO SYM
metrical curves and angles, but let your locks nave
n comfortable looseness of look. Pretty PICTURES
you'd be- indeed paradiug 10 the polls, pranclng
about IN the pulpit clustering at the bar. swinging
the scalp.l in the dissecting room with banged or
sc0Ioped hair, I'm not savage, but never 10
see a woman with her hair so arranged that there
does not come upon me eager desire TO scalp her,
t. part her hair properly in the mlddle-wlth an
AK : either 70 murder or marry her TO barber.
Now, | shall leave by an early morning taih
Wrath at the way these women iix thsir head-gear
has been seethng deep down in my coppers Tor some
time and al last il has boiled he result may
he foyetoId. Nv hair would be scooped before an
other sun sets on Saratoga did | remain; on me
would the women all sit down severely; not those
no seolIoo their hair onlythe whole female tribe
wou,d be my enemies in the future. Attack one
woman for ! folly, and do you not challenge al 7
For if a woman do not seoilop her hair the chances
are that she does something else equally paa OF
much worse. Encourage a man to make RAID upon
one folly and who of the sex would be saief orlt-
icism must he suppressed, all advice repeued, the
whole female brigade must form in hollow square
and bristle on every side with bayonet-thrast cf
action and sabercut OF speech, or the line Is carried
and the traditional right of woman, which dates
back the fig leaf, to dlshgure herself at hei own
sweet will, becomes igment purely Of the past IN
this banding together for defensive purposes the sex
are moved by spree de core, perhaps spree which
began with the eating Of the apple by the priIneval
par and continues on even down 10 the present ms
regeneration Tins. if l pitch into foolish virgin
from Virginia, who sits with the motto of her State
"A Sic simmer on her face from dewy morn to silent
eve some maiden from Maine invariably PUSHES TO the
rescue eager to shver pine lance in defense of some
thing or some one she knows aud cares nothing
about.
This moral rejecting, with steam turned on IN the
heaters and gas-ppes which simulate hickory sticks
burning brightly IL the parlor CRATES, IL very pleas