The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-08-04
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u recent fashion in hairdressiu ls
distinguished by its most singular and
unusu~l origin. Il has been adopted
to p eserva the sanity of the fair wom-
en- who ave b : recours 90 il, sa
th Few York World Mertal balance,
rs i, ha4 long been suspected and re-
Gently strongly affirmed by physicians
OF repute, is almost always injured and
frequently utterly Undermined Jy the
wearing of hairpins. And now that the
truth is out women have shown that
there Is at least one absurd feminine
custom to which they are not so indis-
solubly bound by vanity that they must
forever cling to it. And the very nat
ural wish to retain ones reason has
been the means OF abolishing the steel
hairpin. The head. argue the scien-
lists who have made a study OF this
matter. is the most sensitive portion OF
woman's anatomy and the one which
she frequently abuses the most violent
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nerve center as the permanent spot for
doing her coils of hair or persistently
to iab with an ugly hairpin the regions
which should be kept free from the
slightest touch The back of the head
is one OF the most sensitive of places,
yet from the time a woman first wears
long gowns until sne dies she wilfully
ignores and defes this sensitiveness. Is
1t any wonder. then, continue the ply
sicians, that women should have be-
come constitutionally rattle-brained,
that their reasoning power should be
far inferior to that of men. and that
thousands Of them should be com
mitted TO madhouses every Year,
These cases are calamities not invaria-
bly, referred to their proper causes, and
1t is safe to say that very large pro-
portion of them are attributable TO the
deadly hairpin When women were
first confronted with the statement OF
their unconscious SHINING against
themselves they asked, a trifie indig-
nantlyy what could take the place of a
hairpin if it were once abolished.
Surely it would be impossible for self
respecting women of middle age to
parade the streets with their scanty
hair in pigtails. This was admitted
and for a time the matter did look
rather dubious. 1t was suggested that
all women might cut off their hair and
wear is in short, loose curls. This
again did not appeal to the dignihed
majority and so the following COM
promise was finally hit upon. Accord
ing to this scheme the hair was to be
combed loosely back from the forehead
pompadour style. =. the back It was
to be arranged in loose yet cleverly
arranged knot and caught in place with
single two-pronged blunt-edged shell
| comb. When tried, this arrangement
was found to work admirably The
absence of steel hairpins made head
aches more and more infrequent and
the daily coiffure a delightful and glee-
fully anticipated process. On the other
hand the presence of the shell comb
was hardly agdceable and contributed
not at all to the wearer's discomfort
And finally the new method was found
to be more becoming than any coiffure
that had been devised in years. 1t will
undoubtedly be adopted by thousands
of women who will rejoice to exclude
the steel hairplns from their homes
forever.