The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-06-12
For the CARBON ADVOCATE.
CHANGED IRAIR.';

To our sight there is nothing sadder than
a sane woman with her hair banged" A
lunatic might be excused for such an erratic
style of hair dressing; but how a woman,
in full possession of her faculties and with
the knowledge that she has a character to
keep up, can wear her hair Changed" is to
US a profound mystery.
From whence came this style? What ori-
ginated it? Who set it afoat? Nobody on
earth can say, truthtully, that it is beauti-
ful. We have never heard that it is healthy.
We have never heard of its curing the liver
complaint or the rheumatism. 1t does not
render one any more liable to draw prize
in a lottery. 1t does not insure the wearer
against being drowned or bored by washing
machine agents. II does not make a tall
woman look shorter, or a short one taller, or
fat one leGner, and if it is becoming to any
human, then that fact has escaped our no.
tice. 1t will metamorphise the prettiest
girl of our acquaintance into a rnonstrosity,
and as for its effect on plain wCman-may
the saints deliver us from seeing i'll 1t sets
our teeth on edge 1t imparts 20 the aver
age female face the most discouraged, done
iOr-generally expression we have ever seen
as if the person had played her last card,
got euchercd, and was ready 70 sell out,
cheap, to the first purchaser.
just imagine Lady Washington with her
hair baugedw Think of Barbara Fritchie
waving the flag in Stonewall Jaekson's face
with her lair " banged !" Picture to your
self joan of Arc leading her troops to victory
with her hair " banged -
A woman in this style Of hair arrange
ment resembles Shetland pony which has
not been well groomed, and which is in
doubt about his dinner. Banged" hair
gives the wearer an expression Of doubt and
uncertainty, as if she felt little anxious
lest the batch on her forehead might not
be securely fasteuedj or that it might sud
denly Ego back on her" ard show some
thing which ought not 20 be seen. We al.
ways commiserate the woman whose hair is
" banged" We feel like asking her if there
is anything we can do for her, She appears
to us like a woman in trouble. We speak
softly TO her, az if ordinary tones might jar
her nerves. We wouldn't offer her a sub
stription paper for the world. We look at
her and wonder how she would seem with
that mask taken OF her forehead. We Won
der ii she has got moth patches on her tenn
piles, or a mole on her brow, or a "cow-lick," !"
or a colony Of pimples. Her forehead is to
us as profound mystery as fortune telling,
or psychomancy, or naturalization; and we
get so full Of doubt over it that we would
give half dollar TO see the fringe lifted and
what is under it brought forth to the light
OF day. We wonder if she admires herself
in the glass? if she thinks "bangs" are be-
Witching2 If she never wishes she had not
cut her hair of, and as condemned 10 wear
her hair that Tay2 Docs her husband ad-
mire il? Does he ever sneer at it behind
his newspaper Docs he ever tell her he
wishes she had as pretty forehead as Miss
Smith? Does he ever call her an angel, and
think to himself how an angel would look
with "bangs?" But there! What is the
use of eonjecturing? FashioH is omnlpo-
tent so is folly, aud We do not doubt that
/ somewhere in the world, to-day, somebody
| is saying; Bangs are so becoming
Yours, "ToM."