The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-11

extreme foppshness now among
men. Men go to the manicure with as
little thought of the smartess OF the
thing as they would go to the chlropo-
dist. Men who shun anything like con-
spicuousness in dress are as regular In
their visits to the manicure as men who
think more about their dress and their
appearance than anything else
Since men began to patrosize manicures
the treatment has become much saner.
II looks now to rational method of
keeping the nafls-in good condition rather
than to any increase in their beauty.
The American point of view about per-
fume is fixed. 1t is considered bad form
for men to use scents In the continental
countries of Europe men of good breed
ing look upon perfume as a grateful adj
dition to their toilet and use it without
hesitation. 1t goes naturally on their
handkerchiefs With cologne water they
are equally free.
Enghshmen reject perfumes mostly. Yet
it is true that some of the best-dressed
Englishmen and those of the highest po-
sition now use perfume sparingly. Toilet
waters are very generally used.
There are very few men who use per-
fume, because the feeling that it is map
propriate for men is too strong to be
overcome. There is no such prejudice
against toilet waters, which retain their
odor for so short a time that they are not
likely to be noticeable,
Sachets are also regarded as permissi-
BILE. Nor is the sachet confined to the
handkerchief box. 1t is possible to have
an elaborate system of sachets that will
be sufficient to give a scent strong enough
to last all evening.
Men may buy large sachets measured
to fit into the drawers of bureaus. In
these large sachets are inclosed the shirts,
the underclothes, the collars, the hosiery
and all the garments of a mans ward
robe.
But even a sachet must not be made
of a perfume that is too strong. The
odor used in almost every case is not from
a perfume at all, but from orris root.
This may be strengthened with violet or
heliotrope sachet powder, but only a lit
lie OIL THESE lilS lculCuto SIOuiQ NC hSCbs
The odor of pure orris is delicately fra
grant, refreshing and Clearly. Men who
want to use scents can never find any
thing more appropriate and in accord
ance with other tastes than these large
sachets of orris Small sachets are
scarcely worth buying, as the odor does
not remain long after the article is ex-
posed to the air.
Men whose hair is difficult to manage
use ordinary vaseline more than anything
else. That has the advantage of being
as effective as anything else, and at the
SINE time is free from the rather strong
perfume that foreign hair dressings con-
tain
There is something for fine hair which
will not stay in place, or recalcitrant
hair that is brushed with difficulty, much
superior to vaseline or any hair dressing.
This Is plain water. If the head is thor
oughly wet and the hair brushed it will
remain all day just as it is arranged.
1t may take short time to train the
hair to lie smoothly, but 1t will after a
day or two. In case 1t should be ruffled
by night it can again be dampened and
Will lie as wei DIS IL IL lldd bScii sodhcd
in oil and be very much more becoming.
Toilet waters, although they are very
injurious to the hair If used in excess, are
now adjuncts to mans toilet and are
popular. as anybody who goes to din
ner party will see. The head of nearly
every man who enters the room after
having just taken off his hat is surround
ed by a delicate, stimulating scent of
fresh violets, heliotrope or lilac. Like all
the effects of toilet water the odor Is
fieeting. Perhaps that is its best quail
ity.
Nothing decides whether a man Is
smartly turned out or not more decisive
ly than the way in which he wears his
hair. So long as his head is not what
IT should be tho rest of his dress will be
uravailing II is therefore Important for
him to get q good barber.
Cowlicks and other provoking peculari-