The age-herald., 1898-08-14
SOME FUNNY PADS
 OF THE HOUR
BY LULU HUDSON.

E1 LULU JODSON'
 Many Birmingham people will recall Nell la Bergen, the beautiful soprano who was the principal support of DeWolf Hopper when he played "El Capitan" in the south last winter. Tall, graceful, lovely, with voice of great beauty and sweetness, she was easily, with the exception of the star' the most attractive figure on the stage. Poor little Edna Wallace Hopper, trying to do her best, but without vestige or dramatic talent, and only the thread or voice, paled in comparison Miss Bergen ; voice rang out with especially me elece in the beautiful finale of the second act Since then the diminuitive Mrs. Hopper has quarreled with her big husband and IS now with the Yankee Doodle Dandy company at the New York Casino. Miss Bergen remains with the old company which has been playing all summer at Manhattan Beach.
 She is the leader in a new fad which is said to be constantly growing in favor among summer girls passing the season the sea coast Women with luxuriant hair, no matter how old they are, allow their locks to flow to the breezes thus-ac- 
 greatly desired sheen otherwise available only through the use of peroxide of hydro gen and such things. The sunshine and fresh breezes, the freedom from curling irons and hair pins and all the other mod ern devices for torturing the hair, is de- clared to be more effectual than any hair tonic known So all the long summer fore moons, up and down the beach promenade the summer girls, their hair, golden or otherwise, hanging down their backs. some allowing it to flow entirely unconiined, oth- CTS tying ribbon about the head, and others, in school girl fashion, confining 1t loosely at the nape of the neck. The re- suit is that the pretty girls look all the prettier for the new fad and know it, and the ugly ones look all the uglier and don't know it. In fact, there are very few women who think they are any too old qe ugly to try it. Miss Bergen, however, lets her dark locks disport themselves at1 will and looks youthful, piquant, and altogeth- CT charming.
 If women took seriously the endless .ad- vice regarding the treatment of the hair, spread out for their delectation in the beauty" columns of the daily papers, they would certainly be in a highly con- fused mental state, which, if they tried to follow even a small portion of this advice, they would in all probability not have hair left on their heads. One authority in forms us gravely that there is nothing so injurious to the hair as too much atten- tion another, that the great trouble IS women do not give their hair the atten- tion it needs. One declares that the hair should be frequently and vigorously brushed, another, that brushing induces t,,fo ,ad hot tnn washing is ruination to the hair removing as it does all the natural oils, and then we read that it is impossible to wash the hair too frequently as nothing IS so conuu- cive to a vigorous growth as apsoiule cleanliness. And now we are told that the best thing we can do for the hair Is to al low it to flow unconfned. when we all know that there is no race of people who have more beautiful or luxuriant JOCKS than the Germans, and from early chfld- hood they keep their hair carefully and closely braided. And so 1t goes. what are we to believe? The truth seems to be that thick hair is a matter of temperament, or rather of constitution, though the most vigorous people frequently have little hair. As for it's treatment, we can only use our common sense We can wash 1t often enough to keep it absolutely clean, brush it enough for neatness and pretty gloss, comb 1t when it needs it, and leave the rest to nature.
 Pads are nearly always silly and based on nothing higher than a desire for some thing new on the part of the blaze society women Very elaborate bathing costumes are considered the proper thing this sum- mer and with these some of the most prominent women at Newport are wearing jewels. The low-necked corsage of the dress is made to blaze with diamonds which, glistening with water and the rays of the summer sun; present a dazzling e1- feet One woman has even been seen wear ing a chatelaine with it's endless appurte- nances which 1t Is a marvel any woman can bring herself to wear under any cir cumstances, suggesting as she does with her numerous attachments, nothing so much as A. portable dressing table. However there seems very little a woman at New port will not do to attract attention, TOT there YOU are no one unless a celebrity.
 Apropos of Newport, 1t is, said the young Count of Turin, the nephew of the king of TtaIv. who has been visiting there recently as inc guest of Mrs John Spencer Thomp- son, Mrs. Potter Palmer and other wealthy and well-known society women, mas Tai len very deeply in love with Miss Juiia Dent Grant Now, Miss Grant is the grand daughter of General U. 8. Grant, the daughter of General Frederick 5. Grant, and the niece of Mrs. Potter Palmer She is besides, very beautiful and magnetic girl young and lovable, and when the