Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-01

She wet bit of hydrophile cotton in the
liquid. And she dabbed it along the line
Of the barred scalp, wetting the scalp rather
than the hair.
Il friction 1t in gently" she explained.
among the roots"
When the long line of the part was done
she reached round and caught up some
hair. With the comb she hiked it over:
made another part, and went on dabbing.
So she kept parting the hair all around
her head.
''Three times a week, monsieur 1t Is a
nuisance to do 1t alone; but / dislike to
girl can learn to do it alone. Say, now,
slip out and fetch me In crimping iron;
no one will know"
I must explain that Jeanette was due
lin the world l. e., at a small dance the
evening Of the morrow. Naturally she
wanted to undulate effectively.
Behold those ribbons" she mourned.
"Undulating ribbons. Lentheric's own pat
ent Pouah! And to think when 1 got them,
years ago, 1 imagined them to be wonder
fully powerful. Before that had only curl
papers,
Little French girls begin with bigoudis
before the age of ten, in case their hair
lacks natural waviness. Before ten 1t falls
loose down the back. Between ten and
fourteen it hangs in one great braid. About
fifteen the braid Is Topped And at sixteen
1t is lifted in very simple chignon.
When L was very little 1 suffered ner-
vously from sleeping curl papers. When
got bigger l pined already for the crimp
ing iron. Why, mamma would not even let
me apply Panama wood until my hair had
already darkened!
Blondes, who in France are inordlnately
proud of their blonditude. even when it
runs to light brown, often begin very
young with this Panama wood decoction.
Experimenting with different strengths-a
homemade tea, the wood being procura BILE
at any pharmacy-they arrive at a decoc-
ton suitable to their tint. 1t is universally
believed to check blonde hair from darken-
ing and is used like a shampoo.
When You Marry.
at seventeen, all the same you had a
complete coiffure." 1 said, venturing to de-
fend her mother, with frisettes. crepe,
undulations and the whole tra-lar'
Speak to me of the undulations.' laugh
ed Jeanette, almost bitterly. You
know how set our mother is against the
iron? For US, of course-she has one. She
said to me at the start: AS long as you
are VITA me, no hot iron shall touch your
hair. When you marry, you'll do as your
husband lets you! l began with hairpins."
/ have seen it done. To undulate the hair
with simple, cold hairpins you procure
them the longer the better. Take one hair
pin Separate a mesh of hair and weave
it back and forth into the haairpin as you
would lace shoestring. Then you begin
with another hairpin and another mesh.
Then anotper. AND another. Ana, SO on.
until the lot-say ten hair pins-extend
round the sides and front of the head
Its far bette: than curl papers in that it
makes wave,' said the obedient daugh-
ter. Once, on my seventeenth birthday,
mamma let me use a little heat. Truthful
ly 1 was not so badly undulated. She
brought her own curling iron-with fiat
tongs-and, heating them very slightly. she
pressed fat my hair-laced hairpins. Only
an instant, each. My daughter. would you
ruin your hair? Half an hour later. when
dulation."
You see. undulat:on is the great thing in
present-day Paris, and the majority OF
from home rule by marriage, take to the
not iron as their first privilege. They say.
indeed. that brides returning from the
church ceremony stop the carriage at the
first hair dresser's and prevail upon their
brand-new husbands to run in and buy one