The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-27
The Young Woman's Front Hair.
philadelphia Times.l

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There is no season of the year when young
woman doesn't have all the trouble with her
front hair that anybody ought to have with
anything in this world, but in the soft summer
weather the management of the front hair or
bangs, or frizzes, or whatever it all NAV be
called, is quite too awfully wearing for any
thing. Daring the cold and solid weather a
young lady's hair will stay anywhere she may
put it; she may even hang it over the gas fix
lures or on the towel rack and it will remain
as complacently and unrufiied as may be de-
sired. The bandolining compounds know
their place in winter time and maintain their
dignity. But when the warm weather comes
it is different. All front hair 1nelts down as
everything else melts The bandolining glue
won't hold together, and the young woman
who goes out in good order has no idea where
She will find most of her nice frizzes and bangs
an hour hence. They have likely melted and
run all around her forehead and into her ewes
and scattered back toward her ears and given
her wild and horrible look which isn't pref
ty. She knows she is fright, and SAYS SO a
thousand times a day. She goes around in
search OF mirrors to see just how awfully aw-
full she does appear, and pulls away at her
want it, and goes riding home in the street car
with an unnatural excitement about her.
cheeks flushed and knowing perfectly we'll
that everybody is wondering what is the mat
ter.
This is very severe trial to a young woman.
but she endures it with fortitude that would
give way at the sight of mouse. ANYBODY
would suppose that one days experience of
this thing would be enough. But don't for a
moment deceive yourself with the notion that
it is No sooner does she escape from the pub
lie IN this melted and demoralized condition
than she makes arrangements to go through it
all again. She pastes her front hair in place
with a patience and skill which would win bar
fame if devoted to some durable work: she
wraps an old and faded veil about her head to
keep the pasted fragments in place while in the
house, and finally she goes out again,
knowing as well as she knows any
thing-which IS sometimes suspected to be not
very well-that in very short time she will
be in state Of trouble and confusion about
that front hair, as she has been many many
times before: The young women will go on
doing this as long as it is the fashion. 1t never
occurs to them to do a sensible or a neat and
tasteful thing in the way of fixing their hair
unless it is the fashion for them to do so: and
sadly enough 1t must be said that anything so
sensible is hardly over fashionable. The con-
ISOLATION which any suffering young woman has
unquestionably is that nearly every other
young woman is about as much of fright as
she is. Cooperative misery, SO To say, is al
ways the more endurable. Every observing
human being who goes where young women
are on these summer-like days must be con-
vinced, however, of the great need Of some de-
vice which shall in some measure mitigate the
horrors of the feminine front hair. In its
present unprotected condition it ruins the
pleasure of life during the warm days and de-
stroys the prettiest pictures of the drawing
room and the promenade. There can be no
real happiness until front hair has bees edu-
Gated to stay where it is put at all seasons of
the year or until young women have been edu-
Gated not to put it where it is impossible to ex-
pect it to stay.