The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-26
FIXING BABY'S HAIR.
STYLISH COIFFURES FOR GILL
DREN MADE TO ORDER.
What Some Mothers Do-Littls Tots |
as FOils for Maternal Good Looks.
(Copyri1bt 1891

What Some Mothers Do-Littls Tots
as FOils for Maternal Good Looks.
Copyright. 1891
NEW YORK, March 25-The small, i'm
perious maiden was going to the hairdresser.
She skipped ezcitedly beside her placid
bonnie, her round face all aglow over the
prospect dear to every feminine heart,
whether it has beaten three years or three
score, of al hour with a professional beauti-
fer of natures own handiwork.
"Pleathe remind her to be careful of my
longeth curl" she chatted, "becauthe
mamma thaid l might have the Elthie Leth-
lie cut, you know, and I couldn't afford to
let my pet curl be clipped much.n
And the brow of fashions little slave Of
seven summers clouded, as clouds every
other woman's in the land, over the awful
why's and wherefcres, the dangerous though
delicious possibilities of her mistress next
move and its all important consequences
upon herself.
Fashions in dressing children's hairl
Bless my soul, of course there are" said
hearty "madRme," who was enough
yankee to take a noble French name when
she went into the business of dressmaking.
Its a mortal shame TO put sucd ideas
into the youngsters heads, too as their
mothers and their nurses and their COM
panlons do, she continued, her New Eng
land principles triumphing over her pro-
fesslonal instincts.
"Those children ought to be in school
studying arithmetic, with their hair in two
braids down their backs, instead of in
boudoirs getting fitted to coiffures to suit
their style ana their mothers outfits In
clothes.
Sometimes the maids clip and brush and
curl the hair but on great occasions, when
mamma drives downtown or goes to onurch
with her daughter, the hairdresser comes to
the house and gives the swell young lady a
shampoo and all the rest Of it before she
ourls her hair for the hat which is to be
worm
Then the yankee madam gave a few irate
details concerning the modes for tiny tots
who know them and shrek bitterly when
fooled in lilliputian plots to snare in their
own particular manner the unhappy Faunt-
leroy, the toddling tar or the harelegged
boy disguised as a Scottish chieftain who
lives nsxt door. Good little girls In Sun
day school books have their hair soaped
down their necks aud tied there with blue
ribbon, but the knowing little girls of
Gotham scorn such simplicity. They ar
range their tresses in q wild tangled pro-
fusion of curls with very artful natural
ness. The baby OF 3 is submitted by
an ambitious mamma to the curling
process; she kneels in her crib and
says, NOW lay me-" under curl papers,
and the next morning she is displayed
with fringe of baby hair hanging squarely
around her neck and falling pFettily over
her cheeks The Gothamite child never has
| straight locks, though they may be banged
from ear to ear. The hot iron has crinkled
the strands where the silk and kid avail not.
When the babe has grown to s or years
she let's her heightened hair flow down her
back and over her shoulders in large loose
shaking ringlets OF the Elsie Leslie Lord
Fauntleroy and Princess in the Tower
style.
1t is now that fond and silly mothers
bleach their offsprings' hair until it looks
like Marie Tempest's wig. This they con-
slider necessary step before they can perch
the velvet Galnsborough hat upon the
dainty toy which they delight In dressing,
as the toy used to delight in dressing her
doll.
The dark, italian like young mother
blondines her daughters hair and dresses
her in q quaint, old world, Reynolds or
renaissance costume, and the two make a
dashing picture in the park.
There are no ribbons, no combs, no knots
until the child Is l3 or IA years old Tho
hairdresser gives her closest attention to
this simple, natural couture. however, and
by processes used on older heads keeps the
When the girl reaches the dignity of her
teens, her awkward form is clothed in the
exquisite silk and wooden mixed goods. the
wash silks, the lace and ribbon and "trip
peries which all the world is wearing, and
her much abused hair is done in q Marquee
rite braid.
This couture is the most satisfactory of
any prior to the debutautes knot A light
fringe on the forehead is cut down around
the ears, then the hair is parted and crimped
and few long strands are left to fall at
their own will. while the rest are gathered
very loosely to the base of the neck, where
they are braided. The braid is not tied. but
the ends are tbs inevitable curl. Occasion
ally they are turned under and fastened
with tortoise pin.
By this time she is beyond the reach Of
her mothers vanities, but her own are so
we'll developed that she gives her own Or
ders to her menials, having carefully based
them upon studies before the mirror
THE fact is" were the yankee hairdress-
er's last words, there amt any children in
New York"