Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-21
FOR THE LADIES.


from ear TO ear, so tnat IL may D6 seen
from the-front. With broad face and
short neck, and also for q very short
person, the hair is drawn to the top or
crown of the head, and massed there.
The stylish low coiffure is made of two
small switches twisted together in sort
of coil, having narrow curve at the
top, and being broad below, with q
curve reaching close behind each ear /;
this gives the effect of many small soft
puffs, and is completed by placing short,
very thick curl on each side quite near the
ear This is meant for full dress, and
looks well with the front hair arranged
in the fluffy English way that is again
in fashion; instead of rings or curls or
waves, the short hair above the forehead
is picked apart, and almost each sepa-
rate hair allowed to stand outward, and
this fufiness is confined, though not
fattened, by an invisible net. The
newest false fronts provided to save a
lady's own hair are now prepared in
this fluffy style, with some long hair at
tached to pass over the back of the
head into the back hair in the most nat
ural way. Ladies who have good suit
of hair, and do. not use switches, tie
their back hair about the middle Of the
back of the head, and make figure
8 toward each ear. For morning
and plain occasions the hair is twisted
into very fiat coil close against the
head, and this is placed very low; or
else the plat of three tresses is passed
back and forth between the ears quite
down on the nape of the neck, and the
front hair is simply waved in loose, nat
ural-looking waves. The water waves
close to the face are abandoned, and
ladies who want to wear the hair parted
in the middle put it up on pins at night
to make loose waves. If perspiration
takes out these waves they provide two
or three little pieces of natural curly
hair made up on foundation, and thrust
these under their own front hair on the
forehead; the wearer's own hair may
come out of of,crimps by moisture, but the
additional locks will not, if made of
hair that waves naturally. For high
coifflres two soft, loose-looking coils
are twisted across the top of the head,
and the front hair is arranged in the
fluffy way already described. This
fufiness does not suit all faces, and is
apt to suggest at once Du Maurier's
caricatures of English aesthetics and
many ladies retain the becoming Mon
tague curves and waved bangs, although
the most fashionable hair-dressers say
there shall be no rings, no curls, no
locks upon the forehead. The elaborate
coifures reported from Paris are not
yet adopted here, and the most fashion
able women wear the simplest styles,
appearing at ceremonious entertain
ments with merely small low coil and
fluffy front hair, with the sole ornament
low comb that has riviere of dia.
monds for it's heading. Ladies who
have lost their front hair conceal bald
ness by one of the excellent front pieces
that are now made on self-adjustable
foundations, held in place by spring,
and ara easily kept in place; these
are made up with hair that waves
naturally, some of which falls for
ward from a cross artiug, and
the remainder goes back on tho head
Those who have SO little back hair that
they cannot wear switch, or are not
successful in arranging the hair stylish,
buy the self-adjustable chignon, formed
of curls or braids, and also held in place
by a spring, or else the multiform,
which serves for both front or back hair,
and may be arranged in the simplest or
most elaborate manner, and which is
very light, weighing only three ounces.
Ladies with gray hair wear loose waves
in frcnt, with twisted coils or low braids
behind, or else they retain the Pompa-
dour roll so becoming above low, broad,
Greek forehead. All dyes are happily
out of use for old and young alike, and
though young people have preference
for tawny and reddish gold hair, the
still better fashion for being natural pre-
walls in hair as in many other things.
Bangs for children's hair are not now cut
from ear to ear, as they have been, but are
merely across the forehead, and any side
bangs not yet grown out are brushed
up, and put in with the back hair, which
is combed straight back, and tied by a
ribbon that passes around the head.
Tying the hair in bunch behind or on
top of the head has been abandoned, as
it makes bald spots back of the ears or
on top OF the head. It is then allowed
to hang, flowing straight without
crimps If it is inclined to curl, it is
put in about five loose soft curls that
hang behind.
Further hints about hair.-Hair
wears lighter, and is changed by per-
spiration; hence, in selecting false hair,
it should be dark enough to begin with.
The hair on the temples and forehead is
lighter than that further back, and
to be well-matched requires lighter addi-
tional hair than that chosen for switch.
Brushing is the best stimulant for the
hair and should be done twice day
fifty strokes in the morning, and again
in the evening, passing the hand over
the hair occasionally between strokes,
is commended by ladies who have re-
tanned handsome hair beyond middle
age. The ends of the hair should be
clipped once a month to keep it thick
and even. To do this thoroughly, the
hair should be taken up in tresses, and
comb drawn through each tress, be-
ginning at the roots, and doubling the
hair around the comb, so that in passing
pt1O c11O1b cltlo WILL O6 SG0D, alQ CAN D0
clipped. To prevent the hair falling
out after an illness, six inches should
be cut off, and after this for three
or four months half an inch should
be cut off each month. The cheap hair
of which SO much is sold is usually un-
wholesome stuff it is not always real
hair, and if genuine, is not taken from
the heads of living persons finally, it
does not prove to be cheap, for it is un-
clean, easily mats and snarls, and is SO
brittle thatit does not wear well, or else
SO stiff that it is unwieldy; hence it is
not cheap at any price. To test the
quality of the hair, rub the ends of the
switch between the fingers, and if good
it will fall away out Of the hand en-
tirely ; but if Of inferior quality, it will
snarl and mat together. A microscope
may also be used to show if the ends oi
the hair are turned the wrong way
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