The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-08-03

Philadelphians are just beginning 20
take up the custom. but it has been in
vogue all summer long at seashore re-
sorts and watering places. Every man,
woman and child is going without a
hat.
.scome for a ride with him. I called
out the other morning to a friend Of mine
as / drove up beside the piazza where
she was sitting.
yes. indeed" she said, jumping up
and dropping all her sewing. She clam
hered in beside me.
where's your hat21 I asked. you'll
get a sunstroke.v
She laughed gaily. "Bless your she re-
turned, its easy to see that you've
only just come from the cityi Why,
haven't worn anything on my head since
I've been here. We play golf without a
hat. we drive every afternoon of our lives
without a hat, and we walk and ride
horseback in the same condition. MY
brand new bonnets are rusting in the
Closets"
Freckles and sunburn are no longer
summer terrors. A healthy color is more
TO be desired than fairy whiteness, and a
hatless summer than Paris creations.
Down at Atlantic city you may see all
the ultra f~ashionables driving in their VIC
torias and pretty high carts, with their
heads uncovered to the sun. Even on
Sunday evenings. when the dressing is
at its height, it does not reach to the
crown OF the head, and nobody wears a
hat.
All the things that women wear In their
hair nowadays tend to irritate the scalp.
Combs and bows and hairpins are becom-
ing quite a capital burden, and everyone
is glad to disperse with the additional
load of a hat.
Good gracious said a man the other
day. as he watched a woman coming up
Atlantic City's boardwalk @She has
everything in her hair but a canary"
Tho woman in question was ornamented
with an pompadour, a set of
rhinestone combs. an aigrette a bow and
a bunch of grasses. Very wisely. she had
left off her hat.
The hatless habit is ~encroaching more
and more upon the city limits. In Bryn
Mawr 1t is no novelty. for the college
students follow it out all the year round.
In summer and winter. through heat
and cold, they may be seen taking long
walks and rides bareheaded. But this
summer the men are adopting this same
comfortable fashion, and are seldom to
be seen with their heads covered.
Naturally enough, this is revolution
izing the masculine style of salute, and an
inclination of the head is all you get from
a man when you pass him on a country
road.
There is one PHILADELPHIA woman who
drives in Paramount Park regularly with
put her hat. People stared at first, but
she drove on unconscious of their
scrutiny or of the fact tina she was
doing anything except what was very
comfortable. and, incidentally, very good
for her hair.
Now it seems likely that many others
will foster the style and that Paramount
Park will soon be as hatless as the
places at seaside and country.
Ten. ndfTered the Southern girl, as
she carefully clipped a paragraph from
the beauty columns of the paper she was
reading, here's the fifth recipe for curl
ing straight hair I've run across this
week, says Dorothy Maddox in the Phila-
delphia Inquirer I'm saving them all.
Mean TO try each one in turn. If they
should all start working I'll have locks
Co ALAnS a. IL O1A COAQl GU AAdllAtIy d
Let me see-one set of directions reads:
sMoisten the hair at night with borax and
water. Roll the strands upon kids or
twist into tight ringlets, wrap around
with tissue paper, and fasten with a pin.
In the morning press the paper pads with
a hot iron. When unwrapped they win
be found tightly curled. After combing
the hair will not lose its crimp, even in
very damp weather.
Then there's this hint: Before putting
up the hair rub into it the white of an
egg mixed with water. Whether the hair
is wound on pins. or curled with an iron,
the effect will be both natural and last
ing. The dampest sea mist will not de-
stroy the suggestion of curls.'
Another set of directions includes
bandoIine made of gum arabic, warm wa
ter and a few drops of oil of rose. This
is to be gummed on the hair and allowed
to dry before crinping it. I don't fancy
these mucilage curIs.
Somebody advises the girl with straight
locks to shampoo them frequently with
borax. yodk Of an egg and CASTLE soap. I
should think this would make them so
brittle they'd snap. An old fashioned
curl stick-um is made of melon seeds
soaked in warm water. If bygone bellies
depended upon this to give them a head
of b~ewitehing curly tendrils they evil
IDENTIFY kept clear of sea breezes and fogs.
Deep down in my heart 1 feel there are
only two alternatives for the straight
haired girl-to cease coveting her neigh
boris curls-a new commandment, by the
way, for the feminine world-or to wear a
wig"
Thus spoke the Southern girl with a res
ignation seldom found in vanity fair
even among straight haired philosophers.
Mother Nature is a great artist, and
will beautify the plainest face if she has a
chance 1t sometimes takes months or
even years for her to complete her task.
but it can be done with patience and full
surrender to the invisible genius.
Onions, from leeks to Bermudas. are
bleaching, and 50 are lemons. asparagus
and celery. Spinach IS the broom of the
stomach as the French say, and sorrel.
IN soup of pnree, as they cook it in the
provinces and at the Students restau-
rants in the Latin quarter. is a great
bcautiaeT. Dandelion, lettuce and all the
salads viii bring out the red and white
tints Of the skin.
Beets, carrots, tomatoes. strawberries,
raspberries. cherries and ~blackberries are