The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-02
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of the forehead to the elaborate ringlets
beloved of Marie Antoinette, from simple
waves to fussy .~sfrizes.n are all to be
popular, says the New York Journal"
The only thing which is tabooed is the
smoctly-drawn Madonna-like couture
which has been the solaee of indolent
women for a season or two. Only the wo-
man who is absolutely sure that she pos
sesses a Madonna-like countenance
may dare to appear with that
sort Of hair this summer. And
even she will be wise to obtain
outside opinion on the subject before
deciding against some form Of 1'crimps.v
Even the Pompadour roll, once the
refuge of the woman who wished to
escape the tyranny Of curl papers and
irons, has succunabed to the insidious
movement. 1t IS no longer the classicaHy
plain and severe affair it was in its
early days. It IS waved itself, and from
its rolling surface one or two carefully
careless little curls are coerced into es-
Gaping.
Pompadour combs help to give the roll
its stability. They are fastened in the
hair in such a way as to press the fluffy
puff out toward the face. instead of in
from IT.
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dour, as far as the facially decorative
part is concerned, the back hair is gem
orally gathered up on the top of the
head. There it is eoiled loosely and
roundly instead of the pertly erect and
narrow fashion recently prevailing. In
Difference to the rage for curls the ends
of the coils are often brought through
beneath the twists. divided and curled
so that the back of the head is a mass
OF puffs and eurls, intricately arranged
and totally incomprehensible to the ordin-
ary mind.
Young persons who have a pleasing
consciousness of classic profles indulge
in curled Psyche knots. The hair is waved
lightly on the sides and laid in fun puffs
ca the back Of the head. Beneath the
lower puff two or three short curls dan
gle, sometimes fastened by a bow and
sometimes free. With this arrangement
of the baol-aair the front is curled in an
elaborate bang, which foreshadows the
coming of that fearful structure against
which English women have struggled
ever since the Princess of Wales endeav-
ored 10 adopt it.
When the front hair is not arranged in
Pompsdour fashion nor the back in Psyche
style, a curled Empire couture is gener-
ally selected. The hair, deliberately waved.
is drawn to the very top of the head and
arranged there IN an imposing pyramid
Of pufs and curls. A few curls are pulled
from the mass on the top Of the head on
to the forehead.
Simultaneously with the announcement
from the hairdressers that the hair must
be curled. comes the declaration from
hygierists thai the curling iron must go.
It is branded as the dealiest foe to soft
ness and fneness Of the locks. This would
ne a particularly discouraging conflict but
for the fact that the makers of kid curl
ers have devised an almost picturesque
rnathcd OF curling the hair. The little, in-s
offensive kid curriers' are all provided with
narrow ribbons which tie in dainty little
bows all over the head.
Gertrude Christian Fosdiek, in July
Ladies' Home Journal, advocates the
adoption of the columhine as our Nat
ional flower, and considers its many
commencing points: First. its very
name suggests Columbia she writes.
Nor is this. as may appear. a mere tr:-
vial play upon words. We know that the
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of poetic significance when we remember
how Columbus. like Noah's messenger of
Old, was sent forth TO discover a new
land. We also know that the columbine
took its name from the Resemblance
which one view of the flower bears to a
group of doves. This form grows wild in
the region where Columbus was born, as
well as in our Rocky Mountain States.
Then, too, the botanical and horticultur-
al ami of the flower is Aauilegia, which
is connected with the Latin aquila. an
eagle. NJ was 40 named because the
flower reversed suggests an eagles tai
ons. Thus we nave the thought of our
American eagle. emblematic of fearless
power. Again, a front view of the flower
shows the outline to be a beautiful five
rayed star, emblematic Of the stars of
our flag, while the leaf terminates in
thirteen lobes. the number of the stripes.
as well of the number of original States
in the Union. Another point is that
while the columbine grows in many col
ors. three colors-the brilliant red. pure
white and the exquisite c~erulean blue
are the American variety of the flower.
Once more. a single petal of one of the
long spurred variety is the shape of a
horn Of plenty, significant of this fruitful /
land, while the sh~ort-spurred petal forms
a perfect little liberty cup. Lastly, 1t
grows in every State of the Union, from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from
Canada to the Gulf. In point of hardi-
hood it compares fayorably with the rose.
Our wild columb.nes are in full bloom
by Memorial Day. and have not all dis
appeared by the Fourth of July"
There is a growing fancy TO have the
wall paper and draperies of a room alike
and it IS quite easy now to match a Delft
chintz or boldly lowered cretonne with
APE Of exactly the same tone and pat
tern, but a lavish use and repetition of
any design are apt to fatigue the eye,
and more satisfying results are obtained
by the jud9cious rningling of pain and
figured surfaces and stnffs, says the
Commercial Advertiser" A perfect
Delft room has the woodwork finished In
ivory, the walls covered with a gray-blue |
ingram paper. above. a dado of blue /
fecked mating, and finished with a
frieze Of the narrow japanese crepe in a
quaint Oriental design OF dull blue on a
white ground. The bed and window cur