The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-15
OVER THE TEACUPS.


Among other interesting and useful
toys which have carefully been packed
away with the advent of Lent, curling
tongs come first and foremost. Nor
does this mean that any equally eff
fective substitute is to be employed in
their place All curls, waves and
frizzes. save those which have been
the cheerful and voluntary gift of ma
ture are sternly tabooed. There is an
absolute return to naturalness in the
matter of hairdressing, for seldom has
Lent so shown its influence in even
the most minor details of a womans
toilet
This years penitential season need
have, however, no depressing effect
apon pretty women. for the severe
fashions which are to prevail during
the next 40 days almost seem to have
been agreed upon for their benefit
alone Women with long faces and
high foreheads and ugly outlines will
no doubt be tempted to remain in COM
parative solitude until Easter shall
again permit collaboration with the
couture, and a return to DuffS, loc9S,
frizzes and the curling tongs. Plain
partings and distressingly simple
methods of coiling the back hair are
absolutely valueless in offsetting the
effects of plainness or of age. And it
woman who has these foes to contend
with should. while submitting to the
demand for simplicity, decide to adopt
very heavy wells and to spend the
greater part of her Lenten leisure in
the shadowy recesses of a church.
A pretty woman, on the other hand.
can avail herself of the seasons fash
ions to adopt her favorite pose of
Saint or Madonna. 1t is to be hoped
that her hair is abundant and a bit
Wavy One very simple and effect
i've method is the Duchess of MARI
borough couture, which requires that
the hair shall be drawn back from
the face and allowed to form a very
loose puff or pompadour. The pompa-
dour once secured, the rest of the hair
is caught in the simplest of coils and
at the top Of the head. This is prOba-
bly, the most trying couture that could
be devised for the majority of women,
but when it can be worn at all it is
exceedingly becoming
method that is more adapted to
the average woman is the simple knot
at the middle of the back of the head.
formed by bringing the hair up very
loosely from the neck. The front hair
may be parted or brought straight
back. A slightly more elaborate meth
cd is that of parting the hair, rolling
1t loosely dl GdCn sue, anu
the back hair in a series of puffs low in
the neck. This is for the vainest of
the Lenten maidens. A simpler vari-
CIV of this couture is formed by part
ing the hair without rolling it, and
coiIing it as a plain knot at the neck.
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AS can easily be imagined, the SIM
plicity of the new methods of hair
dressing makes the hair that is curly,
or at least disposed to wave, in extra
ordinary demand. Straight hair is the
cause of more lamentations just now
than are the accumulated sins of an
entire city. nor is the bewailing of
either apparently productive of results.
There is, however, one method of
souaring herself with nature to which
the straight-haired girl is driven by
the extremeties of the sacrificial sea-
son. She knows that walk on a
damp day, without veil, will so thor
ougnIy moisten the hair about her
face that it win fall into curls of its
own free will and that this desirable