The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-28
Rats in Women's Hair.


Rats! Beautiful golden rats. Lovely
fawn-colored rats white rats and black
rats, auburn-colored rats, sober gray rats
and locks neatly turned hold them In. Rats
more varied in color and size and greater
in number than ever followed the Pied
Piper OF Hamelin. Not in cellar, not in
garnet, nor yet in tenement-house. but
caught in 'woman's browning glory" IN
her hair. For what feminine follower OF
fashion does rot know. at this stage of
the season, that the pads over which she
must puff her hair this fall go by the I'M
aesthetic pseudonym OF rats?
Plain hairdressing is quite as out of date
as grass cloth Women are growing weary
OF severe styles in everything. A COM
plete evolution seems TO have taken place
in feminine taste and each new article of
wear or mode or farnish IS best described
by the word elaborate.
The couture Is no exception to the gen.
eral rule. For evening wear in particular
the diameter of the head when dressed
will measure nearly double its natural
size.
Postiches (Which sounds more agreeable
than false hair') VIII be worn abundant
ly in the shape OF additional roofs and ring
lets.
According to the hair dresser women who
have merely ordinary heads of hair are
more fortunate than those who have great
quantities, despite the fact that much hair
is the fashion. This assertion is accounted
for in this way: A little hair can be rolled
beautifully over hair or wire puffs, while
thick hair does not allow puff insertions,
but must be wound in over itself. and IS
more apt to bungle than if it were artii-
c.ally puffed.
Rats are made in every conceivable size,
from little side rats to rats nearly as big
as a small head. The latter are made after
the English mode. They are fastened at
the back OF the head and the hair loosely
covering them forms what is called the
English bun. The whole bun is kept in
place and prevented from parting by being
caught UP IN an invisible net, the exact
shade of the haid. Before arranging the
back hair the front should be brought for
ward. waved in big waves and combed
down over the face. Then Il may be pinned
back. Simply cobing and curling it for
ward first gives it the desired full pompa-
dour effect. The front Is decidedly al la
Anna Held, and the back, instead of strag-
Cling down, Is one neat, glorious puff This
style of hair dress is most particularly
adaptable to the tall, statuesque woman.
If the hair be tinged with red no more ex-
Quisite mode could be desired. 1t is suit
able either for street or evening wear, and
its very simplicity suggests the compli-
ments Of beauty unadorned'
Some rare blonde beauty must be nearing
the zenith Of popularity, judging by the
returning vogue of curled hair and conse-
Quently light hair. For the last year or
more women have been cultivating straight
dark hair. They have STEPPED their fair
locks in green tea; they have washed them
with tar soap and some have even had
recourse to dyes. Then when dark enough
they pulled straight rolls demurely down
over their ears. They were following a
innocently into the style-had made them
selves look as much as possible Ike bru-
nette madonnas-a picture ola great beauty
was published all over the country, and
husbands, sweethearts and fathers were
shocked TO find that the fashion their wo-
men were following was-Cleo de Merode,
A very striking new mode is to puff the
hair in five puffs at the front sides of the
head. The puffs are of equal fuIlness, and
lie at right angles with the temples. The
front hair Immediately at the top of the
head is rolled over a high single puff and
the back drawn up. is separated in two
coils, that are plated round each other, In
a cylindrical shape. almost grotesquely
high. his long, narrow woven bunch Is
surmounted by a brilliant ornament, and
scold locks are curled in a pointed bunch
at the nape Of the neck