The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-06

brother Tom that If he used his two
eyes more am his speaking apparatus
less, he'd know that half the girls IN
that part OF EhristendOm bounded by
New York. Ioston and Chicago are
wearing their hair after this fashion,
which brother Tom calls human COM
bination feather buster and mop"
I really think It rather funny, though.
that should be asked to illustrate and
write an article hat hangs on the hair.
l used to keep all my press notices.
When I first weTt on the stage made
up my mind to deesL every morsel Of
advice offered by the critics. I didn't
realize then that he critics are not all
of a MIND. Not few of them have seen
fit to comment on my hair or manner
of dressing it. Tier comments, how
ever do not fit.
At the suggestion of one I have aban-
dOned CurlS; no sooner done than an
other cries out against the braid: I
have cOmbed my hair back from nv
forehead, I have let t fall down to my
eyes Perhaps 1 might have pleased
either were 'tOther delr critic away.
All this was several seasons gone. I
don't save press notices now. I do my
hair in the manner I think most becOm-
ing. The latest sin linked among my
failings is that Of dyeirg my hair red.
I did wear auburn locks in the ''Danc-
ing Girl" Some one objected, in print,
that my golden locks had been sub
jected to the auburn hue If the per-
son will send me a self addressed and
stamped envelope l viii give the
address of the wigmaker Who so cum
ningly devised the Titan wig that it
defied critics detection.
Actresses find it very difficult to keep
II, pofrr on
the stage their hair may have been as
beautiful as Janette's:
1t was brown with golden gloss. Janette;
1t was finer than silk IF the floss, my pet;
Twas a beautiful mist falling Gown to
Twas a thing to be braided and 1eweled
Twas the loveliest hair in the worli. my
pet.
Janette never was on the stage or l
miss my guess. Any number of ac-
Eresses have lovely hair. bat the love
lest hair in the world, my pet would
rebel at the misuse that the stage re
quires Hair may be "a thing to be
braided and jeweled and kissed but
it was never meant to be made a night
ly slave of the curling tongs and
dressed in every style from Topsy to
Mary, Queen of Scots
We are constantly told that the peo-
pie IKE us pest III OliI BNLI nan eN4iN'
as we try to please the public we
eschew wigs as often as possible. The
result is that we often ruin our own
hair.
AS for this latest way Of doing the
hair. 1t is really very popular in the
East. A great many people are at
tempting it, and thereby making Garlic
atures of themselves. The hair must
be unusually fine and soft if it is
cOmbed in this fashion,; moreover, II
must suit the face Imagine woman
with glasses wearing her hair in this
stvlel I can't think OF anything fun
nfer. unless it be myself playing
tragedy.
1t looks easy, but really it is harder
to comb your hair this way than in
severe style. You have TO De careful
not to comb over the line-and it's finer
than a hair-that separates the artistic
from the slOvenly. You must study the
effect. fore and aft, as our sailor
friends put it. 1t may look very we'll
in front, while in the back the hair is
all a-straggle with that ragged ap-
pearance that proclaims the use of one
mirror instead of two.
If the face is meant for a careless
framework of hair, I think this is
a very pretty style. 1t would suit any
number of girls in San Francisco. l
doubt not this fashion will soon travel
westward no,
YOUR leader unless it pleases them to.
And it pleases me TO think that they
are just right. HOPE ROSS.