Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-12-18
WOMAN GOSSIP.
The Hair,

We have been treated, in one way and
another, to great deal of gush over
womans chief glory, writes Miss Annie Il.
Myers In the Chicago Ledger. In these
days of veneering, however, IL is a dan
gerous subject upon which to elaborate.
Inc sad fact is undeniable: one can never
tell when woman's hair is fast by the roots
% her head. Poets may rave of their mis-
tresses' eyes and lips, but thy come up
short when it seems advisable to sing of
their hair.
1t Is fair to presume that peetcal lover
rarely gets chance to have @ good square
pull at his charmers hair therefore he re-
mains in doubt, and can not raise the
requisite exuberance to spin rhythmical
rant concerning it.
In the days of Byron they were more
ventureSome, for he has said of a sweet
heart:
Down her white neck long, floating auburn
The least Of which would set ten poets raving.
He likely would have raved equal to the
ten poets all together had some coincidence
convinced him that the long, floating, ati-
burn curls were tied on. Byron was not
fastldloUs in all things mundane, but it is
pretty certain he would have drawn the line
here.
The girl with her hair clipped short does
not get rhymes written about her with any
better success. There is something senti-
ment-killing, to the latter day roet, about
long haired man and short haired girl
poet was not long since lamenting that
the only rhyme he could find for short
nesses was distresses.
Girls, if you wish to fire the impassioned
emanations of lyric bard, You will have
to let your hair grow and keep it tight on
your scalps.
A rule for oil mankind to remember is
avoid girls who part their hair on the side.
1t is sure sign she is otherwise unevenly
balanced. She sells even, in the pool, with
the man who parts his hair in the middle.
Yes, one-sided- haired girls should be
SKINNED.
Again, philosophy teaches us, red haired
girls are deceiving. One poet was certainly
victim to some strawberry blondes wiles,
for there are verses floating around where
no has described her with
"Beaming eyes, and bright
h'ong glorious locks which drop upon thy cheek
Like Sold-hued cloud flakes on the rosy morn"
This poets best girl was, without doubt,
Eed,headed, although we must give him
credit for delicately presenting the fact
fed-halred men are generally very
learned-the specialized learned kind.
They know all that is movable, even of
the very rock of ages.
1t was one of them who asked us one
day how We liked Inferno" Wa replied
we had never been there. He never speaks
ms We pass by, and we cannot endure any
of his relatives of similar complexion.
NO, golden hair on a man we do not like
any better than we like it in our pie, but on
the heads of angelic little toddlcrs it is
snnbeams from heaven.
1t Is beautiful dispensation that most
little children have golden hair, howbet
the passing years eventually turn it dark.
The Gear little head covered with the
softest, silkiest, brightest rings of gold is
always the most mischief loving, provok-
Ing, and yet fascinating.
HOW many mothers Ill after years prize
such ring of gold. Their life's vicissi
tudes, perhaps, have caused it to become
the only heritage they retain of d human
felicity.
CnRs Chewing.
The origin of chewing gum is IN
KNOWN, said a manufacturer, "and it is
impossible to definitely decide what people
20 charge with its invention. Dealers who
sci. it and the manufacturers who make it
profess profound ignorance of its genesis,
while savants differ as to where the prac-
tice originated. The majority of persons
who have given the subject investigation
are disposed to trace the practice to the
find the resinous gum which the tropic sun
causes to exude from the trees and chew it.
1t is possible that this custom was intro
duced into the Southern States by African
slaves, who found the pine tree
of the South as prolific in gum as the trees
of their native forests. Some white women
OF that section at that time were
given to the nauseatng habit OF
dipping snuff. e., rubbing it over thei
with tho frouo1 Dr 81,
In time they adopted the more cleanly and
healthful custom of their slaves, and the
pine-tree gum became their favorite large
ay suppressing the snuf-dip. An observ-
ang Yankee travelling through the South in
ante-bellum days noticed the feminine gum
habit, and saw prospective fortune in
manufacturing an artificial gum of superior
flavor to that gathered in the woods. A
little rancid tallow, a trife OF gum arabic
mixed together and hardened, then cut into
small cubes and wrapped in colored paper,
constituted the chewing gum of twenty
years ago.
"The mixture found ready sale among
Southern women, and in time demand
grew up for it in the cities of the North
Gum chewing In a few years spread rapidly
among the lassies of the East and finally
crossed the Alleghenles and swept over the
West like wildfre.
There is no basis upon which to esti-
mate the percentage of American women
who chew gum, but the number has been
put at one half to two-thirds of the femi-
nine population. The practice has been
confined to no particular class. The lady
IN her parlor and the maid in the kitchen
exercise their Jaws over the tasteless sub
stance with the same industry. 1t is far
more common among women than chewing
tobacco is with men,"
1t has now come to be the pet feminine
vice of the day. Since the time Mary An
derson made it fashionable craze it has
scarcely diminished in popularity.
Women of the World.