Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-02-11

Ladies who Require the Services
Pr0sessiOnal Hair.Dressers.

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Prosessional Hair.Dressers.
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WHIT. noUss-rH. REQUIREMENTS OF SOCIAL LIFE
At THs cAPrrAI-sAAti FORTUNES SPENT DrRNo
TEE skAsON-THR PSYCHE KNOT.
dollar to comb your hair.
man could get . shave, his hair cut, and
| shampoo for less A lady has TO pay dollar to
nave her hair 1xed In a style BETTING fashiona-
oie occasion in Washington But there is differ
ence between the tonsorial treatments barber
can NIX up mans hair In manner entirely salts
| factory. IL taxes an artist to do for woman.
woman's hair dressed for fashionable occasion at
washington Is a work OF art. The men and women
VINO do the work-and there are but few who can
90 IL In way to pass criticism-have pictures and
models OF the heads OF famous beauties OF all ages
running back TO the esthetic Grecian types. They
study these as artists to get an effect, according
Win the face they have to deal with. on the &C.
casions OF the formal evening receptions at the
Mnte House, or the state dinners or at the very
rasnionaole receptions, dinners, and entertain
Inents lsewhere, there is sharp rivalry In head
dress. In preparing for
THE wHTrB HOUSE RECEPTIONS
good many dollars are spent In artistic coils.
lnere Is peculiar touch OF tn professional hand
that Is looked for. The lady who has neglected
Inns may hear some OF her fair acquaintances re-
mark: "Her ma d did It," and the remark will be
accompanied Dy little elevation OF the eye brows,
or perhaps the least little TN OF the nose. There
Is no elaborate artificial head-dress worm ana the
arrangement OF the hair must be particularly stIik
,hs; Most ladies' Of fashionable pretensions have
onelr heads dressed by n"rtlst for all evening
occasions, and several ladies' prominent In Wash
ington society place their heads In the hands OF
the artist every representatives twice day.
MRS. CLEvBLANDs STYLE
Mra Cleveland no longer wears her hair In the
style which SO many young ladies have Initiated
from her, making 1t the fashion. She Is very par.
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excellent taste in selecting style to suit her face.
But In this she has an advantage over most
lures, most any style il becoming to her. and she
aulS grace to that makes striking The fashion
sne SCI, now termed a Ia Cleveland, was adopted
py her at first more from necessity than as mat
Ter OF preference, as one OF her schoolgirl freaks
was TO have her hair cut short and her neck
shaved behind. and the head arrangement In her
pictures was the natural evolution from the short
70 the long.
ON ALL sPsoIAL OCCASIONS
she has regular hair-dresser arrange her locks;
but ordinarily she leaves this to her maid On all
state occasions the ''artist" Is called In. At the
last state dinner she had her hair arranged in a
style that Is entirely new here All the long
tresses were brought back and looped and CURED
again and again until her hair looked as IL II were
cut and covered her head all over N short curls--
Cupid curls.
MISS CLKvKLANDs HAIR.
From the popular idea or Miss Rose Elizabeth
Cleveland one would expect her to be Indifferent
mistress or the White House she spent more money
With the hair-dresser than does the ''young bride
OF the White House" She had an extraordinarily
nne suit or hair, and TOOK pride in having 1t look
we'll. becoming arrangement OF this natural
adornment was the extent OF her vanity. In all
else she was matter-of-ract She never trusted
her mar 10 her maid It's arrangement must al
ways be artistic.
EMBARRASSING At THE WHITE HOUSE.
At oil times when there have been ladies In the
White House, except in the time OF Mrs. Hayes,
har-dresSers have found IL proflta bile institution
Mrs. Hayes had but the one style OF wearing her
Marlborough down in heavy folds over her
temples aud then drawn straight back to a little
Knot behind-as she had learned to arrange it for
herself at her quiet home In Ohio.
Mrs. Grant was like Mrs. Hayes in this particu-
lar and mad little use for professional ha.rdTesser
but Miss Nellie found favor with the ton-orial ar
lists. Mrs. Lincoln, whose hair was a matter OF
slonal '' O' ''|' " WIZ 'a'' u L p'''es-
During Mr.. Arthurs time the halr-dressers were
hair Mrs; McEiroy wore cap and had no need
OF his services.
THE FINEST HAIR IN WASHINGTON
The very finest suit OF hair In Washington at
this time Is said to be that OF Mrs Lee wire OF the
representative from Virginia. She is a tall and
very flne-lOoking woman, and her hair, when loose
1t Is said, Will trail on the floor. II is OF ncn
brown. She has with her a niece, whose hair Is of
pure blonde shade. which is an object of admira-
ton IN Washington society this season. They both
place their heads In the hands OF professional
hair-dresser each day, and sometimes twice In a
day they have the style OF arrangement changed.
The only rival Mrs Lee has is mrs. Dawson, whose
blonde hair Is said TO be about two inches longer
Mrs Mrs: Ciover the daughter Of the late senator
M1llcr OF California Is renowned for her
hair, and the wife OF Representative Campbell Of
Ohio. has hair that Is the envy OF her lady friends
which she has always artistically arranged by
professional Mrs. Senator Eustis, Mrs senator
Farwell, and the wife and daughter OF Representa-
tive White, OF Broo Ign, Will not PERMIT an anna
teur to touch their hair.
SMALL FORTUNE Is SPENT
in hair dressing here every season. The bills for
that item of the toilet amount to from $50 to 500
per month, according to the number OF times the
hair Is dressed each day. II once day there is
This is but one Of the little items of fashionable
expenses.
THE PSYCHE KNOT.
'sMrs Cleveland never wears her hair in a purely
Grecian style, though her features would admit OF
It, the hair-dresser VINO arranged her hair for her
wedding toilet said to a STAR reporter the other
day. ''She wears something near It, but not the
Psyche Knot In fact, the perfect Psyche Is worn
hardly at all 1t is too trying to be popular. But
few have features regular enough for It, Those
who do affect 1t generally insist upon having bangs
and In making other changes TO adapt 1t TO their
features Psyche's hair had disposition to curl
and few rings broke loose at the forehead when
the hair was drawn back to the knot behind but
she had no bangs! The curs made just the least
resistance against being drawn straight back,
making the lines very graceful.
on the street or In the evening. The most popular
style for evening this season has been high"
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Protest Against Dirty Streets.
To the Editor of The EVENING STAR:
Is there no possible way by which the disgrace
fully filthy condition Of streets can be called
to the attention Of the authorities with sufficient
emphasis to induce them to take the proper action
to have the nuisance abated? The idea that the
streets cannot be cl"aned simply because we have
freezing weather at tim s. or because there may be
a little snow rain Is the absuldest nonsense n
the conditions do not happen TO be favorable for
the ordinary operation OF the sweepers why
are not men sent out with broO.nl or at
least with hoes and shOvelS to remove the
thckest OF the Nth? Most Of the streets have not
been cleaned for two months more and at the
present time the mud Is ankle deep In some OF our
principal thorOughiares-as, for example on +
street, between 9Th and TIN streets. The picayune
economy by which the commissioners reckon that
they escape paying for the sweeping OF few hun.
dreds or thousands OF square yards OF st eet sur
face during the bad weather Is unworthy OF the
government OF city like ours. At least the
of the sweeping contractors might DO spent
In Scraping together and ting on much
Of the accumulated mud now obstructing many
OF our streets. New York has not generally been
noted for the cleanliness OF It's streets; but In
coming from there few weeks ago l was struck
to see how much drtier our boosted beautiful city
was than that OF the 0Othamites Owing to the
great amount OF business done In New York there
Is some excuse at times for dirt; but as ours "a
principally q city OF residences we have no such
excuse for our present accommodations OF Nth.
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