The Helena independent., 1891-02-22

forehead. and now, in reyerent worship OF
our sacred looks, we revive some old FASH
ion.
Iwas watching this morning girl with
long, rather pointed facs that might catch
some artists vagrant fancy as laZily she
parted the whole of her short thick dull
brown hair in the middle and. not with
woven PAGES but with slowly waving hands,
arranged il differently on the two sides.
One mass she combed down and back and
twisted il, and mt the nape of the neck she
turned it under. The other she twisted up
from back to front. and at the top OF her
head she coaxed into loose shapeliness three
thick curls. She let a pointed lock fall half
in cold pins set with colored stones. and
about her neck she tied neckiet of red
poppies. She WAS slender and everywhere
She showed angles but she might have posed
Enthusiastically to Irving X. Wiles.
During the performance OF the "Gotter-
dammerunc" the other evening my eyes
wandered to a dimpied girl in pink. whose
hair was very pretty. She had waved it loose
" in front, OF it had waved itself, 70. there
is hair whose ripples are not artificial. .as there
is astrakhan cloth and real astraknen. Inen
she had comoed it up and twisted 1t on the
top of her head into six or seven cuIls fas-
tened with bits of gold hairpins. After
this she had twined a wreath OF roses. with
stalks that looked as If they might be
thorny. between the cuTls and the loose
locks that shaded her forehead. She had a
uoeegav of tine same roses at ncr bosom.
At quiet little dinner one night-for
though this is Lent, we are far from being.
all of u.s. Eplscopai-there was youthful
creature IN pale yellow crepe, whose simple
frock was cut square in front and edged
about the bodice opening with rosette
trimming of narrow yellow ribbon. Every
~ Ear pauseH IN her
full sleeves of double tulie, and a. she
leaned scross her partner to exchange
mischievous glances with pair of
responsive eyes three or four plates
away. one noted that her docile yellow
brown hair was dressed low in the back.
with falling curis escaping from the
knot and soft waves concealin2 the ears a
the Sides yellow ribbon, like the bands
crossing over the front and back Of her
bodice, bound the front Locke fllet fashion
and above the forehead. perched little to
the left, was great yellow rosette, like a
huge daffodil.
Bernhardt makes a protege of rather an
interesting young girl who was in the ac-
tress's parlors this noon with her hair
Bernhasdts maid arranged tin a long
low loop, that is popular and for young
faces becoming. To accomplish this dress
ing the hair is parted across the top of the
head. the short hair being allowed to come
forward, while the longer waved hair is
combed back and braided. the back locks
being plated in when the front braid
has been carried down to their level.
The end OF the braid is turned
under and fastened, and for ornament one
uses something Of the deadly weapon va
riety. BeruhaIdt's little friend satisfied
herself with a knife With thin, sickle
shaped gold blade, but jagged things that
suggest torture as we'll as killing are
common.
Thia youno GIRL sang the other NIGHT 81 an
evening" Her hair WAS not lOoped then,
but was hidden under a longish veil OF
white chiffon caught with heavy golden pins
tipped each with a cicada the insect that in
Greece and Egypt WAS long the type Of eio-
quence and music, but that lookes enough
like erasshopper to, puzzle the outside
barbarian who has not posted himself as tc
this, our latest Lenten bit of Oriental sym
bolism. SIS she brideI' asked one in
genuous youth who. even after explanation
could hardly feel that the cleaning chiffoI
folds had been explained.
Up and down through the shopping
streets we surge, the February rains drip
ping from our umbrellas, our eyes turning
from sullen sky and watery pavement t.
the glorious June pictures in the windows
where flo wers blossom, ribbons futter ant
fair and dainty ginghams and batistes seen
to say, 'Ihe waters sparkle. the grass
green and the earth warm. else why are "
here; are not these things so!'
The spring batistes are filmy enough +
make one think Of Hamilton Gibson
paintings of morning gossane!s over but
tercups and cloverbeads. l saw one thI
morning in a delicious straw color garland
ed with dandelIons. Another was IN pal
blue, embroidered half way up the skift
with the delicate pink and blue hepatIci
girl. There they lay in their dusky liyel
shaped leaves as if to aay "Why have yD