The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-24
Ever Changing Fashion.

Fashions change gradually. Unless
they did they could not be followed, for
suddenness would demonstrate their alb
surdity. The revolutions that they make
are not obvious until they have been re-
garded through series of years. The
feminine mode of wearing the hair at
present is fair illustration A good
while ago, when the rage for phrenology
had brought high forheads into vogue,
the hair was brushed back from the brow
so as to exhibit it to its fullest expanse
The fashion was not pretty; itgave women
bold, masculine, staring expression;
but it continued with the interest in
phrenology. Then women began to
dress their hair reasonably, letting it
shade the brow, as it ought to- instead
of pushing it off as far as possible. They
have of late been wearing it lower and
lowel, until many now hide their fore.
heads with it altogether. It is not I'M
common to see we'll dressed women
whose hair, natural or false, comes down
to their eyebrows, while others draw it
forward in such profusion as to give
them a grotesque appearance. Most of
the New York women who make any
pretense to fashion look as if they had
no brows, these being invisible on ac-
count of the peculiar arrangement of
their hair. They are not content to de-
pend upon nature, either. They deco
rate themselves with front-pieces of
divers patterns, and by their aid look as
i'll as they well can. If they knew how
they looked in the eyes of good taste
they would, we are sure, alter the dress
ing of their hair. Hiding their forhead
in that manner bestows on them very
insipid, not to say imbecile, expression.
They might, with hair and eyebrows
ming Cling, be mistaken for bleached
South Sea Islanders, and candor COM
pels us to say that the intelligence of
some of their faces does not need toning
down.-NeaO York Times.
Our Bad Manners.
We are endeavoring to lift the people
to the plane Of intelligence and material
comfort, and even luxury, in the matter
of education, food, apparel and dwell
ings. While doing this we are. perhaps,
neglecting our manners and getting to be
somewhat too brusque and careless of
each others feelings. Every age, even
the worst, has had its good point, its
redeeming feature, which has been its
reason for being what it was. The COM
edies of Shakespeare, which are full of a
delicate social aroma that is exhaled by
its charming heroines, and is subtle and
fragrant as the odor of ga bank of vio-
let's" show that the feudal times, bad and
dark as they were in mosts respects, had
at least commodity of good manners in
their upper circles which are worthy even
of our imitation. Boston Herald.
The Japanese LabUrer.
In his own country the frugo Jap
lives in a house of no more than four
rooms-one for eating, sleeping and sit
ting, one for cooking, one for bathing
and one to spare. He never wears boots
nor brings mud into the house. He and
his family sit on the floor when they eat,
and take their meals at low table.
The floor of their dining and sitting
room is covered with clean, soft mats,
upon which at night cotton comforters
are spread to sleep under. Such house
can be built and furnished for 800, and,
though cheap and small, is comfortable.
The bath, found in almost all laborers'
houses, is in daily use. Better than
gold is the water cold