Evening star., 1899-04-15
How to Care for Woman's Growing
Glory.
LONG REIGN FOR THE POMPADOUR
Still Has the Wavy Effect With a
Short Bang.
SMOOTH EFFECTS FOR STREET
pecial Correspondence OF The Evening Star

| NEW YORK, April 13, 1899.
| When last week I went to greet a friend
| who had recently left the dear delights
| of Paris that she was still signing for them
/ noticed with sorrow the arrangement of
| her hair. Not all the lovely gowns she
! showed me nor the still more lovely lin
| gerie which, as she admitted, cost more
| than the gowns, reconciled me to the pc
| culiar style in which her locks were parted,
| showing the scalp plainly, and one part
| drawn up high and the other coiled at the
| back of her head. She had always been so
| level headed and so sensible quite the last
! woman I knew to be so carried away by
| the chic of the French woman as to be
| blind to the fact that, in arranging hair,
| American and even English women take
| the palm. At last curiosity conquered
| good manners and / asked what had hap
| pened. "Oh," she said with pride, 80 you
| notice the difference. 1 have been taking
| Nine. IS treatment for the hair" L
| had never heard of Nine. -, but was
| obliged to confess that whatever might be
| the object of her treatment the results were
failure so far as becomingness was con-
! cerned. Then 1 was enlightened. Women
! did not pay the mint of money which this
| physician to the hair demanded to learn
how to dress their hair That was left to
| their maids. But to save hair which was
beginning to grow less the services of this
| famous woman are sought. My friends
hair is fine. soft and abundant. And the
| very first thing she was told to do. and the
principal thing, was to wear her hair In
such a manner that the weight would not
| all come in the same place, and also to
! vary the way in which it was dressed from
time to time in order that different por-
| ticns of the scalp might bear the weight at
| different times. The immediate improve
nlent in the state of her hair proved the
| wisdom of this treatment.
When Badness Threatens.
Many women who find their hair growing
| thin in one place could counteract, and if
| not already too late when the mischief is
| discovered entirely cure this tendency to
| badness in fine hair by arranging it so
| that the weight was not always borne by
| one part of the scalp; while women with
| heavy heads of hair who groan under the
pull which comes always on one part OF
the head would find their comfort greatly
| increased by following the advice of the
Partisan who makes her money out of the
neglect women bestow upon their GROWING
glory.
OF course one cannot repress sigh Of
WEAKNESS when it is brought to ones atten-
| ton that the care of the hair and taste in
| its arrangement are of paramount import
ance to the woman who wishes to look well.
| So many things are of paramount i'm
portance that one feels an intelligent COM
passion for the woman who committed sui
eide because she was tired of washing,
combing her hair and dressing and un-
OreSSlnR ana Oh course, one hHoNS llldl
| the hair must have proper attention. But
| how many people know what proper atten-
| ton is? One woman proudly gives her hair
| hundred strokes with brush each night,
breathlessly counting them, as she hurries
| through the performance. 1t does not take
her five minutes. If instead of this mean
ingless operation, which is of little value,
because the roots of the hair are never
reached by the ordinary brush and the or
binary method of brushing, she were to dt-
vide her hair and rub the roots with her
fingers. then brush it out smoothly, and
go over it again, even if she only did this
once week, taking nearly an hour to 1t,
she would find vast Improvement in the
texture and gloss of her hair. Merely
brushing the strands will be seen to be
valueless by any one who has tried once
thoroughly rubbing the roots instead and
then brushing the hair smooth.
Washing and Clipping.
And then washing the hair. How many
women with dry hair which has a tendency
to come out know that as a rule they
should not shampoo their hair more than
once a month, in many instances not more
than once in six weeks. while women with
oily hair should have a thorough shampoo
sometimes as often as once week? Cas-
tile soap or tar soap are both safe for use
on the average head of hair. very little
borax dissolved in the hot water in which |
oily hair is washed is not injurious.
The tiresome clipping which one always |
IearS Will De OOne uHeVenly Wn6n
ed by ones self should be attended to |
once month Our English cousins always |
have the hair singed, and perhaps it is |
better than clipping. But the latter is |
certainly better than letting the hair grow |
untrimmed.
Hard to Learn New Ways.
New methods of arranging the hair, that |
is, a change in any prevailing style which
holds sway come but slowly, for it is not
easy for most women to learn a new way
of wearing their tresses. A princess in one
Of Ouida's novels held the opinion that a
woman who did not arrange her hair differ
entity every day had very little ingenuity or
imagination. The princess, however. was
as all princesses should be--fabulously rich, |
and it is much easier to direct maid to ar
range ones hair in different and complex
designs than to laboriously twist unwilling |
locks in unaccuStomed directions, especially
when one has something more to do in life
than to merely look ones best. Although
there is really nothing more difficult. when
one comes down to hercuiean tasks, than
endlessly looking ones best
Water Waves and Crimps.
One is remindful of this slowness in
changing the methods of arranging hair by
the long reign of the pompadour. Today it
holds its own as we'll for certain occasions
as it did when first 1T grew in height and In
popularity also. Among women whose at
tire and accessories may be relied upon to
be correct the pompadour never attained
the wonderful height to which it rose in the
orchestra chairs at a matinee where the
matinee girl held full possession. 1t has
never been considered good form by GER
tain class of women to wear what is known |
in current speech as rat. And without a |