The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-25

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What a wise thing it was for some wise
woman to change the style of chopping
off her daughters hair as soon as it was
n length. They used to keep it short
all through the school days, SO that the
debutante's Grown of glory would be
thick and beautiful. These cropped years
were supposed to insure this result.
Now the girlies are allowed to retain the
soft little baby curls which grow around
the seasheli ears and brow, and viii
never grow again so prettily after being
cut.
The watchful mother brushes her little
girls hair carefully every day, which
brings out all the glossiness and makes it
soft. Then the beauty points are care
fully trained: the widow point just
over the middle of the eyes; the two
points just over the brows and the two
just lower. If the hair is scant there,
then a little cocoa oil is rubbed well in.
Another thing to be careful about Is
not to keep the one style too long. II
parted the part becomes too wide. or
when the hair is not parted at all it IS
found difficult to find a part. A little
cnanSe ike THIS rests the SiHdA AeiNcS
as well, and grille is better for it.
For wee girls the granny curls" are
almost exclusively used. The hair is
parted, and narrow pink, blue or white
ribbons tic two curls to fall forward over
the ears, so that. when the bonnet is put
on. they are tied in front of the strings.
Sometimes these little butterfly bows are
tied high above the ears-that is, if the
hair is not long.
For dressy occasions a narrow BAN
deau of silver or gilt is worn. ending
with the two little bows and held by an
elastic under the hair. An older girl
wears her hair in full p~ompadour. not
unlike ner mothers tied with a colored or
black bow. and then braided dow and
tied again.
The boys wear the cropped hair that has
been discarded by the girls, and a great
many rubbings of cocoa oil encourage a
regular mop of hair. Tawny or black
haired lads look very picturesque with
this style.
The heavy bang is parted after a few
years, SO when he enters the athletic
team for the interscholastie games he
has q football head"
Sometimes there is an "ugly duckling"
among the little girls that can be made
to appear charming by dressing her in
a quaint style. IN a portrait of a girl
by Boutet de Msnvei 4 very odd style of
dressing the hair is seen. Over a short,
full bang is a large rolled puff of hair,
pinned securely on the top OF the head
The rest Of 1he hair IS simply CURED at
the eEds.
An nrtist will often start a becoming
style Of chibarau's hair. which will be
talaen as 2 model. The little son of Mr..
George de Forest Brush is always paint
ed with the heavy bang cropped SQUARE
" around .he back. just missing the low
round collar. The dry point etehar. Mr..
HELEN. has i charming little sketch of
his daughter Ellen with a dull, loosely
tied p~ompadeur.
Mrs. Ros.na Emmett sherwood's- wee
girl, painted by Cecilia Beaux, has her
hair parted on the side, boy fashion, and
tied vita a pink ribbon. Mr.. Chase's
ror.Iping Alice has her hair drawn back
from the brow. It shows a ribbon on the
crown OF her dainty head, as does also
charming little Beatrice Goeiet in Sar-
gents painting
RInglets and curis it must be up to a
certain age. The old-fashioned curling
sticks are coming into fuse again, so by
fair means or foul" as the little vic
tins of crimpers and tongs may think,
girl and curl are Synonymous at the pres
ent day.
There are said to be ways of controi-
ling the color of a ehild's hair, if taken
early enough. but experiments have fail
ed 10 prove his a great success. Strong
tea deeoens- the color of hair that is too
wildly red, and the application of oil
darkens and subdues hair that is neither
black nor brown. but is just a dull, rusty
color. Taken all in all. though, it is bet
ter to leave a child's hair as it is, and
TO make it pretty by ways of dressing
it. rather thar by heroic means.
A very quaint fashion for the summer
is that of gathering a child's hair up on
ton of the mead and tying with a rib
hon. The ends are then allowed to float
loose. and are slightly curled at the tips.
This style is cool and very becoming to
small, plump faces.
Another cool style is that Of parting
the hair down the back and drawing it
each side to the front, where it Is TIED
lust over the ears with a small ribbon
bow. Achild's hair is never pretty
braided, and you see very few braids,
even in the most fashionable portraits
of children.
A harmless shampoo for a child con-
sists of a lather of CASTLE soap, well
beaten with the yoke of an egg "A pinch
of borax can be added to the shampoo,
but it must not be added literally. as
the roots of a child's hair VIII not bear
the harsh treatment of older heads.
After the hair is washed with this
preparation It should be well 'rinsed in
many Iukewarm waters and quickly dried
in the sun.
MANY curious umbrellas are made, says
the s'Woman's Home Companion" One
| have seen can be taken apart and put
in ones pocket. The stick Is of wood
about an inch in diameter. TIL cover can
be turned inside out, and folded into a
small bundle. BY touching a spring the
ribs come off, straighten out, and may be
Mace in the hollow of the stick, which is
then a presentable walking stick 1t IS
found very convenient by its owner, whn
is a drummer. Another is still more in
genious. The handled curved, and when
a spring is pressed a pipe flies out. Tne
ribs are slowed away in the centre, and
the owner has a walking stick, but in
4he ceutre there is also a rapier, which