Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-22
BETWEEN OURSELVES.

The Philadelphia Times has an article enti-
tied "How Fashions in Women Change" but
it would be more suggestive if it read "How
the Fashions Change Women
For instance you may have admired Arabel-
las fine brow, which is the index of sweet and
tender womanliness; when, presto, she hides
it behind mat of froFsy hair down to the
very eyelids; and where's your ,bonny brow?
s., There is no redress, although you are DE-
barred from the sight of q charming feature.
Fashion DEGREES that the forehead shall be SO
shrouded. and there is no evading its mandates
if one wants to be recognized as anybody in
the"world.n 1aa tfDasIa si5E s
q To persons of ugly high foreheads the style
of wearing the hair is q mercy, but why
should more favored folk disguise a beauty? 4
B Look at the changes IN feminine
hair dressing, say only from the day
of Marie Antonette to our own, which will
make the illustration antipodal Then the
hair was drawn with high handed severity to
the crown of the head, where it was formed
into towering structure, and powder was re-
sorted to, to give such a stupendous coifare
some softening spell.
In that troublous time the hair receded from
the face, and the headsman's work was faclli-
tated in many instances by the obliging fash
ion. Now the rebound has come, and tresses
have downward and forward tendency. To
have the hair very fashionable is q suggestion
of poodles and Skye terriers-the eyes peeriHg
and showing amid tangles of hair, which, I'm
like the canine prototypes, hasn't in most
cases the primary merit of growing Oh the
head SO garnished.
But what of all thiss What real difference
does it make in the long run? Only to be noted
by some curious observer like the Englishman
in recent communication to a London news
paper after long absence in India. he
chronicles as one of his disagreeable surprises
the disappearance of the forehead among wo-
men of fashion.
IT'S very evident that the brow must be left
out in the songs and stores of the time-or be
very much understood in the license of the
imagination. To kiss it is out OF the ques-
ton; to praise it is ambiguous; to speak OF
its frown, or any expression peculiar to it, is
fiction, and so the brow has had its day in the
literature of the past, for now as the fronts
piece of any of the old-time emotional bust
ness it is obsolete.
It's beauties, its wrinkles, and its ugllness
are impartially withdrawn from sight. So
much the better, You may ejacnlate. Times
unwelcome tracery and mental disquiet are
alike draped from inyidious scrutiny by the
fashionable vagary of frizzing and frizses.
You follow the fashion, and wear a partial
mask at the same time. IT'S when desirableo
an opportune subterfuge where you may be
said to double your advantage.
Peoples faces tell upon the record OF the
age. Men are obliged to stand the brunt Of
scrutiny without any of the elegant equiyoca-
lions of the toilet. Women dodge literal
verdict, while inviting the record according to
their own rating of their deserts. Perhaps in
score of years there will be some surprised
comments on the portrait of Mrs. President
Hayes, because of the smooth hair brought
down close to the cheek and over the ear, in an
epoch when the fashionable edict was for ex-
cessi rely rumpled locks over the brow and
temples
On the other hand, her husbands formidable
antagonist, Mr.. Roscoe Conkling will show
upon this facial record as about the only man
of mark with q curled peninsula
extending over his forehead; but
with his almost C@sarian badness, what sub
terfuge is going to be available to the late Ser
atoriali Appolos A crowne Surely he's had
his cross.
WE'LL. pulling trio of would-be beauties,
and local celebrities each in her distinctive
way, has been drawn to the life, and hung ad
vantageously IN the best light of the GLOBE
gallery. Not line, shade or tint has been
omitted. and yet few saw the absolute likeness
to the originals.
Some of the most accurate portraits are not
always SO satisfying at the first glance but
the moro you see them, whether it be careful
ly or cursorily from time to time, you are as
tonished at gradual development of resem-
blance which in the end becomes the cumula-
tive fidelity Of portraiture.
Suppose were now to draw for you one Of
the noble representative women of st. Paul, do
you suppose you'd recognize her
immediately Indeed yon would not.
But had you ever SO slight an inkhng Of
the personality. you might be justified in re-
turning the work, as the original of Charlotte
Bronte's, Mr.. Yorke, in Shirley did, with the
remark that sit wasn't strong enough"
Charles Summers Memoir and Letters are
mainly remarkable to- a few readers because at
Gore House, Kensington, the home of Lady
Blessington, he met two persons of whom he
invariably speaks with some contempt, Bull
wer and Benjamin D'Israeh. You will infer
that like the peerless and sublime Charles,
you too, might be slow to see the unpreten-
tious merit of St. Panl's foremost represents
tive woman.
Every church and meeting house and little
eddy of social congregation has its leader who
is willingly conceded, or is naturally pre-
eminent enough to be representative.
But above and beyond sects and their claim
ants, coteries and their skin-deep concessions,
there is one woman whose right is hereditary
and familiar. Aye so familiar with dignities
and social distinctions that her manner has the
gracious ease which courses in the blood and
is royal inheritance lin salutary contrast
with the put-on and putof manner of nine
tenths of st. Paul's society ladies-"who are
never quite sure you know''-thereby proving
how accidental their tenure is.
The representative woman's manner is
neither free, frivolous nor fribblng, but taken
altogether the presence is as bland as sun.