The Republican journal., 1904-05-19

Copyright 1904, by Christine Terhune Herrick.)
No woman who wishes to be attrac-
tive in appearance can afford to neglect
details. And every woman should wish
to be attractive. She fails of part of
her mission in life when she ceases to
please the eye. She may be useful
she should be useful,-but she should
also be ornamental if she can compass
it.
Even if a woman cannot make of her
self radiant beauty, she can see to it
that the minor points of charm are not
neglected. She can be absolutely neat,
and that is charm in itself. She can
take such pains with her hair that if it
is not naturally beautiful it can yet look
well. She may not be able to alter the
shape of her hands or to keep them al
ways soft and white. But the skin may
be smooth, and the nails we'll cared for.
All these little items take time, but
they are like some other things of
which we have spoken in these papers.
| 1t is tedious business to get them into
good condition after they have been
suffered to become neglected, but it is
trihing matter to keep them in good
order, when they once look we'll
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ness of detail. We all know what they
are and some yield to one variety, some
to another. One woman, who does her
own housework, will tell you that her
hair gets rough and unkempt because
she has to sweep and dust and take care
of fires. Even if she protects her hair
with cap, it becomes damp from per-
! SEPARATION and the dust settles into it
and makes it harsh and unmanageable
Her hands must go into all sorts of
work, and show the marks of it. Using
a broom spreads them out of shape,
washing dishes and peeling vegetables
soils aud diScolours them.
The girl who INDUCES in outdoor
sports arrives at the same results, but
| by different method. After day
spent on her wheel or On the links she
will concede nothing to the housekeep-
ing woman for the dampness and dusti-
ness of her hair, and she will claim that
the effect of the sun and the wind, the
oar, the golf stick or tennis racket is as
deleterious to the Whiteness and shape
illness of her hands as any amount of
domestic work.
We may grant the argument in either
case. That is, we will allow that there
is sufficient cause for the hair and hands
getting into bad shape. But is there
any good reason Why they should be
allowed to remain so?
Take first the case of the working
woman. Her arguments to the con
trary Notwithstanding, she is very fool
ish when she does not make a practice
of wearing cap about her dusty work.
1t should be of some thin wash material,
which can be easily Numbered, and it
should be made in a way that is pleas
ing. She owes that to the people about
her as we'll as to herself. The cap worn
by babies nurses is fair model, as it
covers the locks completely, and when
finished with little frill at the edge is
not unbecoming.
This cap, while it may protect the
hair from dust does not, of course, save
it from the effect of perspiration. To
avoid the evil effects of this, so far as
may be, the hair should be loosely put
up when it is dressed and should be
shaken out and allowed to dry at night
time,-not done up in hard knot. 1t
should be washed at least twice a
month, except in very cold weather.
and should not be submitted to the
harsh discipline of hot curling irons.
This may seem hard saying, to the
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heat, whether she rides wheel, plays
a fiat iron,-and perhaps it would be a
, mistake to insist toe strongly upon it.
If woman thinks she gets enough at
Effectiveness from the curling tongs to
make up for the damage she probably
does by the process, it i'll becomes any
: woman whose hair curls naturally to
expostulate with her. And it must be
! owned that in many cases the difference
in appearance between straight and
waved locks is enough to make up for
the trouble and time expended in
achieving the latter.
Il would gladly give ten years of my
life to get curly hair" announced a
woman, and when some one protested,
she went on calmly, THAT would prob
ably be less than / shall give first and
/ last to curling it with the tongs.''
Even the curling tongs are better
than the wearing of curl-papers or curl
ing kids about the house in the day
time. If woman wears the protect
ing cap she may conceal these abomi-
nations beneath it,-and this is as
strong an argument as one can ad-
vance in favour of the cap.
The girl who does outdoor things
does not have the way made as easy
for her so far as her hair is concerned
Now that the custom has arisen of
going bareheaded, the hair is said to be
more luxuriant than when it was kept
under close hat. This is probably
true. But while one may pardon dis
hevelled tresses in girl flying down
against the wind on a wheel or on
horseback, or driving her ball across
the golf course or over a tennis net,
that does not excuse her appearing in
the same trim,-or lack of trim, in the
house. When she comes back from her
outdoor sports she should get herself
into the guise of we'll brought up
young woman and not of a hoyden.
The outdoor girl, too, should wash
her hair twice a month. Not with
strong detergents but with a rational
shampoo,-an egg shampoo is the best.
The egg,-the white and yolk mixed to-
gether,- is to be applied to the scalp
and the hair, and then washed off with
little green soap dissolved in warm
water. This process over, fresh water
must be used and not until the water
runs clear from the hair, proving that
all other applications have been rinsed
out, are the tresseS in a state to be
dried.
The care of the hands consists in
prevention more than in cure. The
hOuSekeeper NAV declare that it ia i'm