Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-08-22
THE TEST OF TASTE.
DECKING OF THE HEAD AND DRAP-
ING OF THE FACE.
The Male Savase's Love of Personal Or
pament misunderstanding Artistic Taste.
Masculine Attire in the Middle Ages.
Boots, Gloves and High Hat.

Boots, Gloves and High Hat.
The head has always been the test of taste.
In civilized countries, where taliordom Cd
tans and millinery means more than
length of fringe and string of heads, sleeves
have run the heads hard, and skirts have
made a good third, Shoes, too, have not
| been out of it, and ornamentation has been
as a congerles of minor little imps trlSkIng
about the bigger competitors for the wreath
of mingled feathers, flowers lace and jewels,
made and offered by the genius of bad taste
From the earliest times when man first
| finds that he has hands and can use them he
puts part of his newly acquired powers into
| the decking of his head and the draping of
his face Now he twists his hair into mon
Strous shapes, standing out from his scalp
| like hunchhacked aureole; now he contents
| himself with a more symmetrical nimbus,
whereof each snaky stitfened ray extends be-
yund the breadth of his shoulders Anon he
sticks few feathers among the clay daubed
mass. and anon he lets it hang down in
greasy elf locks to his neck, taking care,
however, to travesty the natural shape of his
head by tiletS. which bind on to it every kind
of frightful aud ungainly eNcrescence; or he
| paints his face in patterns OF red and yellow
and blue; or makes that painting permanent
with tattOoing needles and indigo, or be
hangs heavy weights in his ears; or destroys
the shape of his under lip; or does something
insane with his teeth or in some way dstorts
and disigures himself under the name of or
namentation and with the idea of making
himself a very smart fellow indeed
In SAVAGE Iif, il is the brave who Tins
su,artens himself I'M with most intention
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cronve and with more modest mian Tho
brave is the one who is "en evidence" the
souaw h,s simpIy TO work fo,. his comfort
and hear children 10 keen the rriha alive
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