The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-29
The Girl in Cum Papers.


reyular public exhfSitit.ns OF herself hut
she is to be found in lsfge numbers in
doors all over the country. Her ace
ranges from ten all the way up to where
girls cease to have any age to speak of,
and she patronizes al kinds of papers,
from the daily journals to the brown
paper which the grocer uses to wrap
bar of soap, although she really has
special fondness for any newspaper which
some member of the fsmiIy may have
laid away for some more important use
than hair curling: Sometimes it occurs
that she will use hairpins to twist her
front locks into the sznntless contradic
tory shapes demandedby fashion or some
thing of the kind bM hairpins are not
as cheap as newspapers and tairpins can
be used for other thlu& than hair twist
ing, whereas the s<ssE girl rarely has
any other use ;ise aaepcr. The girl
in curl paperoi to-day IS not the girl we
used to kDow in other years the girl who
wound Der long black tresses up at night
and letthem wave in freedom about her
shoulders in the morning. The back
hai of the girl in curl papers of to-day
doesn't trouble her much to wind up
she can hang it on towel-rack or over
THE buck of chair and sleep in perfect
peace with the whole thing of her mind.
The chief anxiety of the average girl is
her front hair. Her social affairs, her
dresses, her ribbons, her household duties
If she have such-all combined are not
half the care that her frizzes are, and
when she once has those tightly wound
in papers or hairpins it is no ordinary
thing that will induce her to take them
out. If it should not happen to be Angus
tus's evening and no one else should come,
the girl in curl papers will keepher knots
intact, because nobody knows so well ss
she what dreadful responsibility comes
upon her the moment the papers are
taken out. Those fIizzles which look just
killing to the casual observer, are wretch
edly frail structures and require the
closest attention, besides an invisible net
and lot of invisible hairpins, to save
them from utter Generalization. No
kind of weather has yet been invented
which is wholly favorable to the preser-
vation OF the modem fr1zZ, no matter
how carefully that delicate little orna-
ment is prepared. The rain takes tue
twist out, the hot weather melts it, and
the moist atmosphereat the seaside Is the
constitutional enemy of the frizz lit
sickens and dies there almost without a
struggle. The only real safety is in the
store frizz, with reliable twist in, rome
thing that won't droop, and that csn be
tied on or removed without any physical
exertion or mental anxiety.
The girl in curl papers no doubt exPe-
rienoes her greatest trouble at this time
of the year and at the various warm
weather resorts. She finds so little time
TO Law the foundation for good frizz
that IL Is awiui1y pfsSt--.zs -slsa s--r--,.s
PEELED to make radical change 10 her
habits that doesn't srit her She can't
wesr her curl papers down to bresk fast,
to dinner or to any thing else, as she never
fails to do at home, and it's the most
wearing thing in the world to have the
great care on hand So many hours. Be-
tween breakfast and dinner, and diuner
and tea she can slip away to her ioom
and do up her frizzes, but it is sacrifice
as well as a labor. She viii miss a walk
or drive or chat, almost az desr 10
her rs her frizzss. But the frizzes refuse
to be neglected, and the girl who wears
herself thin twisting curl papers into
her hair the whole year round must
go somewhere in the summer for relaXa-
ton, and nobody will deny that she ought
10 have it. That shedoesn't get IL is thu
fault of that summer resort etiquette
which hasn't yet tolerated the girl in curl
papers in pubic places. The actual st-
cia! demand is for the invention of re-
sort where curl papers will be as swelcome
as frizzes; where all young womanhood
can lounge around in brown or white
curl papers, with or without back hair,
and not be talked about. Unless rome
thing of this kind is done our summers
will be more and more terrible every year,
and our leveliest young women will be
carried off by insanity. The girl in curl
papers wants as much freedom in pablic
as at home, andss a matter of humanity
she ought to have it. A frail izz can't
be on duty all the time, even for fash
ions sake. Let the girl in curl papers
have a rest.