Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-09-27

Jane AntOlnette flsh, so that, IN point
of vulgar fact, the Pompadour style of
hair today is the Jane-A. Fish fashion.
But Jane Fish was no everyday slouch
of woman, we can tell you that, if she
did land we don't fully believe she did)
Pompadour hair up in that way. She was
bird. She started low and flew high
But she doubtless did it by brains, in spite
of her hair. If she had worn her hair
licked fiat and parted in the middle, it
wouldn't have kept her brains down, per
haps. We have seen young men try that
experiment in vain Their brains would
bob up and glisten outside
Jane was the natural daughter of
butcher. Butchers 5 name not stated 1t
ia immaterisl anyway, inasmuch as
daughter of that stamp generally takes the
name of the mother, aud the alleged
father is glad enough to have his name
kept out of the newspapers and the epcy-
clopedias. He woula 'ather seem respec-
table alive than be hist )rical dead This
particular butcher, Jaue's bashful papa,
does not appear to have got Pompsdour
on the brain to any high-haired extent.
But Miss or Mrs. Poisson (Fish), James
mother, was a Frenchman of ideas, and
she toresaw that her little butcheress
(French, bouchere) was no common char
acter. Perhaps she did not anticipate
that Jane would attain to such grandeur
as to set the hair of foreign countries and
future centuries; but she seemed to have \
premonition that the little girl, with such
will-pOwer aud ambition was going to the
front or perish-Pompadour die. So
mother Fish determined to make it plain
sailing (or, better, clear swimmiug) for the
little Fish. She gave her good educa-
tion--which is not bad thing to wear un-
der the Pompadour style, or any style, of
hair. On B. We have, IN this century,
seen what they call the Pompadour Golf
fure on top of bad grammar and def
cient photography
Miss Poisson (to-wt, Fish, was polished
off in the French language and things,
and then married of to gentleman farm
er of the taxes-a style of farmer that
raised taxes on the shares Thus
she became Mrs. lie Normand
d 'Etioles. But she didn't remain
so a great while. She soon attracted the
attention of Louis XV A king of France,
when he took a notion made charming
woman husband look small in those days
We do not remember how d Etioles liked
it, but his wife became the tavorite mis-
tress of the aforesaid fifteenth Louis and
was presented by him at court under the
title Of Marchoness de Pomp padour.
Hence and henceforth Pompadour She
became as great woman as her name
sounds-pomp, ado, her chief claims to
renown. She patronjzcd learning and the
arts, embelished Paris and organized
brilliant fetes, assisted BY VoItaire ard
Bernis. She ran the kingdom aud ran the
king. A grand woman, with big brain
and her hair on end, can well be imagined
TO have been holy terror
Such woman is sometimes holy terror
even in this nineteenth century. Give a
lady fifty cubic inches Of brain, with the
large bulk Of it showed up back over the
ears, and cover it with thrilling shock OF
perpendicular hair-then stand round !
Pompadour Well, we should ask leave
to take breath to say so.
For the style of wearing the hair,
whether on feminine or on masculine
poll, goes far toward the makeup of
the impression that the individual gives
of himself to the world Take
tor instance, a gentle. modest, sweet
looking woman, one that never in all her
life wished to be man Ga kind admired Of
all true mem, and you look for her hair to
be parted in the midde e, combed back both
sides from of the forehead, and tied up in
a good tight love-knot on the back of the
head IT fashion comes in, as she is apt
to do among womanknd, and bangs, or
POmpadours, or otherwise hoopoos that
dear woman's expression of character, it is
because fashion is a despot without taste
or sense.
This rage for the Pompadour, however,
is nothing like as all-kiling as that for the
bang. Probably the Pompadour is be.
coming to woman here and there 1t
gives look Of distinction that some WON
en- demand. And an occasional Pompa-
| douriterOus young man is apparently a
noble creature. But the bang has no ex-
cuse on the civilized earth for being. 1t
is hideous horror always and every
where. 1t takes the loveiest women of
our land, women with the divine sculpture
| of soul on brow and temple, and piles up
a penthouse thatch of fluffy idiocy on
top OF the countenance that is shocking
enough to stampede drove of elephants.
We will not have it, any way it can be
banged up. The more prevalent, general,
universal, and eternal it becomes among
us the ugier it grows. Welcome plat,
curl, puff, Pompadour, anything, so that
it sea p the horrible hirsute bang.
Webster defines bang as meaning ITO
beat, as with club or cudgel." Though
we do not think highly of Pompa dour,
yet, if she will come in and apply Web
ster 8 definition to bang, we will consent to
give the French butchers natural daughter
the compromising cheer of Vice La Pom.
padour.
Rip Van Winkle at the Grand.
Jos. .letferaan will annear at tha lr.a ID