The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-27
WOMAN'S WORLD.
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who announces to the assembled COM
pany the name of the coiffeur.
This new academy has been visited
by several grandes danes of Partisan
society and by prominent American
women residing here, or who happen 70
be passing through Paris. The new
fashion is an improved revival of the
style of wearing the hair that prevail
ed during the Second Empire. Hair is
no longer worn thrown up on the back
OF the head so as to leave the maps of
the neck exposed. On the contrary, it
is worn plated behind nearly down the
shoulders. This is becoming for wo-
men having long necks, and gives
splendid opportunities for those blessed
with an abundance of hair. The new
method is, however. trying for those
who have short necks.
Nearly all the leading actresses in the
Partisan theaters have been interview
ed on the subject by the Figaro" and
it appears the edict has gone forth that
women must wear their hair low. Mile.
Lavalliere, the charming actress of va
r:etes, expresses herself enthusiastic
cally in favor of the new style, as do
also Jane Hading, Marcelle Lender,
Andree Megard, Cecile Sorel, Jeanne
Rolly and Mile. Pierat who, by the
way all have long necks. Jeanne Gra-
nier is, however, opposed to the coiffeur
basse, and courageously said: do you
suppose that smart and clever women,
especially American women, will ever
allow themselves to be tyrannized by
fashion that does not suit them? And
it would be an injustice to some women
to make them wear their hair low; my
self, for instance"
But in the Education de prince did
you not do sop
"Oh that was because I took the part
of a queen, and 1 thought proper to as
sumo a more sedate countenance. The
coiffeur basse seemed to me a good
corrective to my turned up nose, but 1
was never intended to wear my hair
otherwise than on the top of my head,
and do not intend to adopt the new
style. Many women who have as little
right to do so will, however, follow
what they consider to be the fashion.
So much the worse for them. Besides"
she added, with a malicious smile,
there is probably some syndicate at
the bottom of this capillary revolution
that has perhaps already made a cor
ner in false hair, and is now booming
a new style, knowing that it will COM
pei nine women out of ten to buy hun
dreds of francs worth of new hair for
the famous Second Empire plaits."
A year or two ago, writes Dorothy
Dix, in the New Orleans Picayune,
attended big mothers congress in a
Northern city, where they spent hours
discussing whether a parent should say
must to a child. 1t seemed to me to
be the very quintessence of idiocy
when life is one long must to every
| one of us. Neither do l believe in hir-
| ing children to do the things they
ought to do or deceiving them by tell
| ing them that bitter draught is
| sweet. The child that is taught to do
a thing simply because it is his duty,
and it is right to do it, and to stand
up bravely and take his bitter dose in
life, has been given the kind of back
bone of which success is made in this
world. He is no weakling, who will
give in at the first harship. He is the
vertebrate man, who fights the good
fight. and wins the victory.
Yet-and here comes in the necessity
for an appreciation of the golden med
ium in family governmental is worse
than folly it is a crime, for the parent
to constrain a child against every
natural impulse. Thousands of the fail
ures in life are the direct result. of a
father or mother trying to make one
thing of child when nature had made
something else. Because it is a tradi-
ton in the family for the oldest son
to be a professional man, some poor
lad, all of whose talents lead to trade,
is set out on a. career of murder as
doctor. or of boring people as a preach
er, or of failure as a lawyer, or be-
cause a man wants his son to succeed
him in the business he has built up he
tears him away from the books he
loves and the profession he would hon.
or and chucks him in a contingencies,
where he wastes his life and ends in
bankruptcy. We see this tragedy of
misapplied parental power every day.
and the wonder is that after counting
the wrecks all about us, so many peo-
pie should still believe that they can
work in a miracle in their own children
and make a square peg fit into a round
hole.
No hard and fast laws can be laid
down for family government, because
so many problems depend on the tenn
permanent of the child, and a curious
illustration of this was afforded a few
weeks ago in New York in the case of
a young girl who ran away from home
for the third time because her mother
forced her to do the dishwashing. OF
course. the mother argued, reasonably
enough, that it was the girls duty to
help about the homework, but a little
tact. a substitution of some other
work for the hated task, would have
settled the matter happily for all con-
cerned Certainly I do not think that
a. child, unless there is the direst neces-
sity for such a thing. should be forced
to do anything especially repugnant to
her There's plenty of work in the
world for us all to find a congenial
task.
Between the parents who do not con-
troll their children and the ones who
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