The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-11

| nose but affects the most senti-
mental languishing positions, which
might be effective in an artist modei
or a chorus girl or even very young
society bud, but not in one IN Whom
ape has wrought such tranSforfnd-
ton.
However. it is my bread and but
ter, so | picture her as young anu
beautiful as a summers dream, ana
not only keep her as one OF my pest
patrons. but she compliments me pc
sides assuring me that no one ever pc
fore did her justice. We are both sat
isfed. so I don't see why any one heeu
criticise, do you?'
..Deen auburn and the drab shades
are the fashionable colors IN halr TINS
season, said the woman who makes
hair ooloring a speciality. as placidly as
though she were commenting on the
state of the weather or the advance
STYLES in dress goods.
cone of my customers has to my
knowledge worn five different colors or
shades on her wavy tresses. Having
been blessed with medium brown ha1r
by nature she became a ravishing
blonde when the fashion for bleaching
first came in.
NEXT she took to Titan red after
a trip to the art galleries of Europe.
Then she thought she would be more
attractive as a brunette, and now her
hair is drab.
1.-THE last is by far the most popular
of all for the reason that it is most
difficult to obtain, and then 1T is pretty
generally becoming, and it happens
that women who are born with tnls
particular color OF hair are almost al
ways refined and clever.
How is it done? Well, in the case
of woman whose hair is dark a
bleach must first be used before the
dive is applied With women whose
hair has turned gray it is still
simpler problem. The color lasts a
wear. while the head can be washed
and even salt water bathing does not
affect it,
Hockey skates have been adopted al
most wholly this winter by young
women who have had a chance to
skate and go in for it in the same
measure that their brothers and men
friends do. They haven't broken into
the masculine game yet, but it is evil
dent that they have some such design
and so are becoming accustomed to
the skate for the purpose.
According to New York physician
many young women are being treated
for broken arch of the foot. the re-
suit of the habitual wearing of high
heeled shoes. Restoring the foot to its
normal condition and usefulness is
matter of many months. sometimes
years, and in some severe cases the
patient never fully RECEIVERS, having
always to wear a specially constructed
shoe which supports the foot by steel
braces.
Here's chance for some especially
original young women to design re-
ceptacle for candy.
One of the best known firms of candy
manufacturers in the city circulated
privately recently the announcement
that it would give SO to the person
who could suggest SOME absolutely
new and original repository for its
goods. 1t might be well to state that
already the firm has made use of some
thousands of odd designs SO that the
simple proposition.
Styles in stationery change with the
is stamped on a disk of mother OF
pearl in silver or gold and set in an
Empire wreath to match.
The paper used is of heavy coarse
grained linen in very delicate pearl
tints The upper left hand corner is
the proper place for the monogram or
crest just now. and every one is run
ming to huge letters. They are very
long and narrow and when stamped
one slightly above the other, the most
modish method, they extend fully half
way down the sheet
One thing in the new monogram
favor is that it is easily deciphera BILE.
Many of the out OF date ones looked
as much like the writing on Cleopatra s
needle as the initials Of an American
woman
Double envelopes are used. A let
ter from a friend in mourning is
| enough to send the average person into
| forty different kinds Of fits
| First the missive is put into a solid
| black envelope of a tough, fine texture
| reminding one of an onion skin. and
| this goes into white envelope with
| a broad band of black around it.
/ Dull gray stationery stamped in
| black is used by those in light or sec
| ond mourning. IT must strike mere
man As odd that modern femininity