The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-01-16
UDcn1an's WcrId
AN ARTIST DIscLosEs THE
SECRETS OF PRETTY HAIR

u can make any woman beautiful q

II can make any woman Doubtful.
The speaker man who has devoted his life
TO q study Of the hair. '.No matter how round. how
narrow. how fat, or how thin her face may be,
make her look pretty he asserted
As he spoke he held up the picture of woman
whose sweetness of face was noticeable at glance.
Little waves of hair hung or lay, about her ears,
while over her forehead great soft wave tell
caressingly. The temples were hidden by shining
folds of hair while the ugly spots back Of the ears
which reveal a woulan's age fully concealed
That woman" continued the hair dresser, was
not pretty woman Indeed, she was called PLAIN.
She bad not good feature and her appearance,
when dressed, was far from attractive.
And to make it worse, she had way OF twist
ing her hair on top of her head True, she waved
the sides little and curled the front But the gen
eral effect was lamentable. 1t neither that of
couture nor a coil, nor it anything else She
had always an unkempt look, though she had
done her hair in hurry.
when took her case into my hands | wanted
to shampoo her hair. But when | made the sug-
gestion she was offended.
1 want my hair dressed and waved, not sham
pooed, she said.
Very well, madame, l replied but you must
let me do 1t I'M my own way. Your hair is dull,
showing that the soap has been left in it. 1t is
heavy, showing that the water was not hot enough
TO cut the natural oils. 1t is not of the proper color
Tor 1t Is drabbish brown whereas it ought to be
chestnut hue
"She finally consented to place her head in my
hands even though she knew | was going to spoil
her hair, so she said.
Sand truly did go to work to spoil it. if any
hair dresser ever did. had it shampooed with a
soap jelly thiekened with egg, and beaten up with
an egg beaten like mayOnnaise. This | left upon
the hair until it had had time to cut through the
dust and sediment of the passing hurricane. One
part of her hair swept with sand though she
had been in a srocco. 1t had been shampooed, but
Just sufficiently to stir up the dirt, would say
if renovating old rug.
The simile is a homely one, but, really the hair
IS much like the fur rug that lies upon the floor
1t becomes matted and out of sorts and out of con
dltlon 1t must be done over or renovated in some
way before it will look rich and glossy again
The hair was rinsed with hot water in which
there was deal of powdered borez, and was finally
rnsed IN water as hot could be borne upon the
head, while the strands dipped into water that
was much hotter.
"The hair was then we'll dried Home drying is
bad for the hair. The locks are never thoroughly
dry, and the result is dampness which chuses the
dust to cling 10 them. If the hair is put in damp
state IT Is TO suffer exceedingly for everything
sticks to it. and, besides this, it becomes soggy in
the coils and disagreeabe TO the touch. Such hair is
fragrant.
at is almost impossible TO dry the hair prop
erly at home. A rim is of some assistance, but
even tins does entirely free the hair from mos-
lure. A rim is nothing bat old straw hat
with the top out though can purchase pretty
rims which are made for the purpose and which are
neatly finished.
The hair is pulled up through the rim and is
well dried. 1t must hang in the IN front of
CRATE fire for a couple of hours, or the moisture
viii not all have disappeared. 1t takes from three
to five hours dry the hair that it will be as dry
as 4 bone.
And that is where the hair dressers have the
benefit. They the hot air drers the electric
fans, with the result that the hair is dry in fifteen
minutes-as dry as bone.
We'll, / sbampooed this woman's hair until it
restored TO Its natural color and then dried it
while young woman acted as assistant by holding
up the hair strand by strand be sure that it was
dry to each hair.
Il might have said that in the shampoo the cake
of soap not rubbed directly upon the hair. The
soap Jelly was applied but no soap directly. Soap
clings to the hairs and it is hard to rinse off.
The hair was then waved and tied on top of the
head after which it was coilcd in low figure in
the back IF the neck. u
The final touch came in the curling of the lit
tic locks, which were made TO lie around the fore
head and on the back of the neck in such way as
10 fill in awkward spots and hollows. These little |
curls are valuable auxiliary TO a wonlans looks,
and should not be neglected when a woman is put
ting the finishing touches upon her couture.
Take the plainest woman and let her place little |
curls around her face, and her best features will |
be set off once. Curls soften the hard features
and bring out the good ones.
MY attention was particularly called to this in
the case of woman whose lines were hard Her
nose sharp and her chin was thin. Her tenn
pies were hollow and her eyes were faded. She APP
piled to me for advice on beauty
Madame said l, it is all in the hands of YOUR
hair dresser He can make or mar YOU Then, 60
ing TO little case, brought out a dozen curls on
hairpins small curls that lay in big soft waves. |
placed one of these over each temple. few along
the bad places in the forehead and half dozen
back of the and in the neck. The result was
electrical The womans features softened. and
when she rose from her chair to go ont She was a
pretty woman with a st. Cecilia look 1t was all
due to those little curls upon hairpins.
And this brings me 10 the subject of false hair
False hair, which has been ridculed from all time
is now coming in.style And woman will have
as many coils and braids curls and tresses of all
kinds including fronts and pompadours, and parts
as she can afford.
1T is a fact that upon the dressing tables of
the rich there is large box containing false hair
pieces of all kinds from simple little temple curls
10 great rngles for the shoulders and there every
device, from the waved temple pompadour TO the
double coil which lies upon the shoulders. From
this bewdering assortment a skillful hair dresser