The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-21

PEARLS.
Aside from powder, fashions in hair show
great variety this winter In general hair
is going higher in front and lower behind.
A small coil low in the neck with just a
lock or two relieving the baroness of
the forehead is a simple style for all in
formal occasions, which to many women is
the most becoming couture possible. With
| the artistic and historical costumes which
are now correct form for dull dress occas-
| ions the hair is, or ought to be dressed, with
notifications, to correspond. For the
Marie Antoinette gowns the directions
| given by a fashion writer of ITS are, save
in one particular, literally followed by
| fashionable danes of the year of grace 1899
Every lady" says this beau Of century
| gone, who wishes to dress her hair with
taste and elegance should purchase an elias
| tic cushion exactly fitted to the head then,
having combed her hair and properly thick
ened it with powder and pomatum, let her
| turn it over her model in the recognized
fashion" TAe headdresses of towering
| hight in which the unlucky queen delighted,
and of which it is said that they placed the
| face of the wearer in the middle of ler
| figure, are an abSurdity which cannot re-
turn. There is no fear Of pOuf like that
of Louis Pnilippe's motler, in which "every-
| one might admire the Due de Beau olais,
her eldest son, in the arms of his nurse, a
| parrot pecklng at cherry, little negro
and multitude of other designs making
| a couture so high that its owner must kneel
| on the floor of her carriage in order to &C
| commodate it, but my lady in her Louis
| XVI. Vatican gown or lowered brocade at
| DelmOnicO ball preserves a certain sem
blance of consistency by rolling her hair
high over her forehead on a cushion, let
ting only a curl or two drop to her temples
and planting puff comb OF gold and dia-
oi1 to Of
feathers, flower or a pompon to confne
and ornament it.
The modern Nine. Pompadour wears a
| founced lace skirt with overdress of rich
yellow brocade, paniers on hips, square cut
neck, elbow sleeves lace-trimmed, ribbon
tied in a bow about her throat, and hair
drawn loosely back from her face and gath
cred in bunch of light curls on top of her
| her head with tiny wreath or a fluff of
marabout feathers set coquettishly to one
side. With her promenades one of Napo-
| Icons dead beauties in a severe, statuesque
empire gown of dead white silk her black
hair brushed straight, and braided glossy
| and tight in a smooth and shining coil on
the back of her head And so they passed,
each one different from the other, for if we
are attaining individuality in dress in any
particular it is in hair dressing.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox clings to the psyche
| knot. She looks well with it, too. One of
the handsomest women in New York, Mrs.
| Dr. Gibbs is reluctant to let it drop also
Indeed the few women whom it really be-
comes should not desert it with the passing
Of the craze. Mrs. Brown Potter loses half
| her beauty when she abandons the loose
coil of her red brown hair low in the back
of the neck for any variety of higher
couture. Mrs. Langtry is another woman
who should always wear her hair low. Mrs
| Frank Leslie, on the other hand, would
scarcely be recognized unless she dressed
her hair nigh with Spanish comb and wavy
bang. Mrs. Cooper Hewitt has beautiful
hair, which is combed high and and orna-
mented with pearls. Short curls soften the
| forehead. Mrs Burke Roche wears an un-
usually heavy bang, curled and parted on
one side. Mrs. Harriet Webb, the elocu-
zionist, has pearly golden brown hair, which
she wears short and which so becomes her
as to make converts for the cropped style.
An era of elaborate addressing, they say,
is setting in, when a short crop may be the
alternative to wearisome hair architecture.
| ELLEN OSBORN.