The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-12

Within ten days the patient can
have the plaster taken off. When the
plaster is removed the ear is found to
lie fiat against the head, instead of
protruding, as it formerly did.
But the cutting of this skin back of
the ear the taking out of a piece of
flesh, the sewing of the ear into the
right place and the healing thereof
afterward, all make something of an
operation, and a painful one at that.
But, if you want to be beautiful, you
must pay the penalty, which Involves a
lot of money and lot of suffering. For
women who will not do this, there Is
artifice to be employed.
Women who have large ears should
not call attention to them. The girl
with small ears, shaped like the tradi-
tional shell, and as pink as peony
can set rose behind her ear and look
pretty.
But not so the girl with the big ears.
When she sets rose behind her ear
she finds that the rose is nearly hidden
by her ear, and, when she looks at her
self in the glass. she sees that the rose,
instead of setting off her natural grace,
| only calls attention to that awful ear
Large ears can be made much pref
tier by artistic aids. And one of these
| is the little natural curl. This is call
ed the artists curl.
Theoretically this little lock, which
| is called the love lock, should fall over
the ear in it's own graceful little curl
| But few people have the natural ear
curl. Such curl as they have is pro-
duced with the aid of art.
Too many people, in making the ear
curl fall into the error of making 1t
too heavy. 1t should be extremely light
| scarcely more than wisp of hair and
1t should fall directly over the ear, with
Its end flying loose. There should not
be over twenty-four hairs in the little
love lock which so gently caresses the
rim of the ear.
The artistic beauty of the love lock
lies in the way it is curled. Take the
tongs, only moderately warm and turn
| the little lock until every hair is Sc
curely wound in it's depths.
Now hold the tongs while you count
sixty. Slide them out and you will find
a lovely little ringlet light, fluffy and
so fine that IT needs only one twir1 of
the comb to make it look like fluff.
| Those who are willing to go to a great
deal of trouble will tell you that it is
best to divide this little love lock- small
| as 1t is. into three. and then, with
| scarcely half a dozen hairs in each. to
| wind 1t through the tongs until a lot of
ringlets are made. This is poetic in
the extreme, and, what is more, it hides
a poor ear.
Women with poor ears are generally
| the very ones who disdain such aid &.
They pull the hair uncompromisingly
back from the ears and twist it into a
| hard knot at the back of the head
| The ears which should be softened
with little curls, stand out in an ag-
| gravating way.
| Again, you see women with the fore
| head delightfully."- dressed, who show no
| taste at all when IL comes to the dress
ing of the hair around the ears, for
! they smoothe 1t back, sometimes TAX
| ing a hair brush to it,
Let every woman twist a curl or two
down over the ears and she will find
| that her looks are materially improved
thereby. No artist ever paints the
naked ear. All the pretty pictures have
the ear softened by curls.
Earrings are in style again, but there
are those who should not wear them
| Women with very long ears or with
| ears that show any marked physical
popularity, should not wear earrings.
A short time ago a woman whose
ears were by some freak of nature built
in triangular fashion applied to a
| beauty doctor. He applied the ear cap,
and told her to dress her hair in rings
over her ears, but by no means to wear
| earrings.
Rings often pull the ears down, MAX
ing them long, and when heavy earrings
are worn all ears except the tiny little
round ears are deformed thereby.
The ears that look charming in ear
| rings are those that are plump and
round and pretty and have fat little
| lobes that are none the worse for the
wearing of earrings. Thin ears should
not be provided with earrings for they
are too easily pulled down. Fat ears
should not have earrings, for they
| should be hidden rather than made con-
| spicuous.
Ears that are too long, too narrow. or
peculiar in any way, are the ones that
| should be shaded by the draping of
the hair or by little curls rather than
brought out into the broad glare cast
by precious stone set in gold in an
earring.
The girl who has really pretty ears
J is fortunate. and she should make the
most of such a possession. She should
dress the hair high so as to show off
the ear we'll and she should wear jew
els around her neck and in her ears on
| all appropriate occasions.
| She may wear a band Of black vel
vet around her throat, for this shows
off her ear we'll. She may, in addition
to this drape her head with the new
and becoming little daisy garland, let
ting 1t pass behind her ears and up to
the crown of her head.
Just as the woman with poor ears
| aims to hide them. just so should the
girl with pretty ears try to display
them.