The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-06
Stories Of the Streets and Town

I utes and IL she stops to curl her hair
| it takes an hour.
First you have TO divide it all
around, getting it tangled in the comb
| in the process and breaking a lot of
| it off, Then you pin on rat of some
sort-of wire or oakum or real false
hair-and then yen pin over it various
sections OF your own hair and labor
iously make psyche knot in the rear
and then you adjust some puffs around
the gables and attach a swinging row
OF tiny breakfast sausage puffs around
the suburbs and if there are any va
cant spaces you fill in with false hair
that you twist and puff as the occa-
sion demands. Then you have to put
in a comb and sidecornbs where they
will do the most damage and soEse-
times before you do that you put on
an invisible net which is indeed in
Visible when you are trying to get 1t
on your head
After you finish doing all this you
are ready to take a long. refreshing
nap, but you/can't because it would
muss your hair,"
ct certainly does take long time
TO put up ones hairs. admitted the
caller. but what l wanted to tell you
was"
That's only the beginning" inter
rupted the hostess, ruthlessly. In
those happy days of old | wasn't
obliged to have a different pair OF
STAYS for almost every gown / owned.
always seemed to be the same shape
but now if try TO put on a, street
frock over my morning gown. stays
think I must have got hold of the
tailor suit of somebody in the next
blocki And you have to wedge your
| self into the most alarmingly intri-
cate things when you put on sheath
empire evening gown. Nobody would
think at first glance that they were
mere stays. They would guess them
to be an airship, with all those wings
and things to lace down your hips.
And after you are in 'em it takes the
whole family TO get you into the
dress, first because you are so mum
mified You can't move muscle to
| help yourself and next because the
| thing is skin-tigbt and hooks invisibly.
People are supposed to think the gown
grew on you because apparently there
| is NO way of getting into it unless you
were melted and poured in
If you have to wear hat you are
obliged ito get the gold inlaid derrick
buaL every IdSnlOudOic Idnliy mas III
troduced into rs dressing rooms now
/, adays and lower your headgear from
the extra-re-enforced shelf wherein il
hes and swing It upon your head
know a girl who can land her hat cor
Fectly in five swings of the derrick
/ generally miss up TO the eleventh
myself.
They haven't REBUILT the cabs and
carriages as fast as they might, either,
Why. / sat on the floor of taxicah
all the way to the north side the other
day because II. would have been an
possible for me To sit on the seat un
less they had cut hole in the roof
and they are always so hateful when
you suggest such thing. / know one
girl who had to drive to luncheon
with her head out of the cab door
the whole way because she was late
and didn't have time to send back
for a carriage when she found her hat
I wouldn't go through the cab door.
And it takes precisely as long to
get out of your clothes as it does to
Eget in lem. And after one is in /
can't, say she looks any better after
all her trouble than she did in the old
lquick-change styles" q
Maybe not" said the caller, polite
ly, though little bewilderedly. But
wanted to tell you that Harriet is