Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-13
A QUESTION OF HAIR.
WHY Shouldn't Woman Arrange Her
"Crown of Glory" as She Sees Fitp

Why Shouldn't Woman Arrange Her
Grown of Glory as She Sees FitP
From the Boston Herald. ~ IA
The social secretary if reports from
New York may be believed, has high and
holy mission Women met together in that
CITY a few days ago and discussed plan
of operations The social secretary, or
professional mother" should be a mixture
of a missionary and a lady floor walker:
she should advise shop girls as to their
dress couture, department with young men.
One woman told of IL sad instance Of the
need of such an adviser: Il found.one of
my girls with a huge pompadour, which
looked like a great big hearth brush. l
asked her what made that high wad of coil
on top of her head. She said nothing, and
then / made her take down her hair. and
found she had three balls OF yarn in her
pompadour. Lots of other girls were doing
the same thing. put stop to that"
But why should not a woman be allowed
to arrange her hair she fit? From
the earliest days, from the time when wo-
man, instead of man, became the long-hair
ed creature. there has been war against her
headdress Fathers of the church. satirists.
philosophers caricaturists have all objected
in vain. We remember the case Of priest
In the Netherlands who driven years
ago from his parish because Re Numbered
in church and threatened accommodation
against women tnat aHecteu HOnStfOuS
head towers. One of the most entertaining
books concerning womans dress is the
"Anti-Titus. GU RemarQues Critiques sur la
Couture des Femmes Dix-Neuvieme Sic
Gle" by E. Rothe de Nugent (although the
title page bears name of author). It
was published at Paris in 1873 Every so
cial secretary should be furnished with the
book that she may see how futile her en-
deavors in this branch of reform will be.
PROPULSION well as beauty of hair, Is
glory to woman, and the American has been
regarded by foreign and curious observers
as peculiarly fortunate. The praise given
by Apuleius in golden prose to woman 8
cans who are not otherwise of unusual
loneliness or of marked physical dstinc-
ton Should there be drab and impersonal
uniformity In the arrangement of such
hair? Perish the thought, Let one Guido
the pompadour herself! Let another prefer
the soaplock OF the traditional Bowery boy
let one be Greek, another Hottentot in her
coiffure. History shows US that coiffllres
come and go after the manner of any we'll
behaved comet The prevailing STYLE may
not suit individual cases, but just as there
are men, like the comics n feeble folk who
buy hat without thought of its personal
fitness, but on the assurance of the clerk
that IL is the correct thing" so there are
women whose fashionably arranged hair be-
comes discordant or repellant. 1t is not
given to every woman to wear long curls.
even though she be addicted to poetry; and
female poets have been known through the
resounding years to pull back the hair that
a high and notified forehead, or a forehead
like unto a porcelain doorknob. might be
exposed warehouse of high thoughts
There are girls who should always prepare
Tor themselves the coiffure of the pompa-
dour. whether II be in or out of fashion:
he"ufv then draws with a thousand
Mia" Offers Tith the like arrange l.e.l.