The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-02-24

Chicago ll.. Feb -} Philosophers
maintain that If We had the requisite
brains and mowlcdgo We could read
the history of any individuals ufot
from the lines and contour of the
face Each little pcuc.lur drawn by
time ON the human couu'euancc
means SO much pain or sorrow Sc is
curious To note the effect which oc
cupation and environment. have on
physics appearance Mankind seems
readily 10 fall into classes and types
which can bc readily distinguished boy .
the acute observer
n you walk through the loop dis
trict any afternoon you will meet
some thousands OF men and women, |
everyone Of whom has ou Individual .
ity Of his on her own and yet whoI
can be roughly classified into about a
dozen types OF especial interest are
the women enc meets in their types
That little. modcstIy dressed girl
who comes hurrying along with a
iauuty stride aud confident uui-o
can belong only to one class She
Is essentially one OF tine hundreds Of
thousands Of her kind who arn work.
. Ing in the tactorios of the country.
/ Probably not more than II years Of
age the alert and scfassurcd look
I'm her eyes bctrays the fact that she
has already spent am apprenticeship
in lifc's training school and is not
/ ignorant Of the world
The confidence with which she
froads her way through the crowded
streets bcspcaks the city girl while
her simple clothes tell Of her condi
ton in life The little hands are
unglovcd and a triflc coarsoucd by
manual labor but the natural coquer
. ry Of her sex peeps ont In the bow or
ribbon with which her hair IS lied
and which IS perhaps % little crude in
taste Her coiffurc is simple. for she
has no time to waste in the morning
ON elaborate hairdrcssug This is a
point worthy Of note. for a whole
book might be written on the revcla
tions TO be found in the way woman
does her hair
The little factory girl passes on her
way to be swallowed up in the gen.
, eral sea of humanity which surgcs
backward and forward and attention
. is attracted to another girl who steps
out of the mass to cross the road II
Is only necessary 10 mark her hcsitat.
| ing and timid manner and the appre
hensivc way In which she glances
over her shoulder to know that she is
stranger to the big city. \ c.oser
inspection leaves little doubt as 10
, her classification
80 matter how clear the skin and
, bright the eye Of the city girl there Is
peculiar freshness of complexion
about her rival from the country
which apparently can never be dupli.
Gated. There is also something distInc
tive about her walk and carriage. Her
movements are freer, her stride long
er-it is the gait Of a person accus
/, toned to big spaces and lonely roads
Then there is something In the way
she dresses. The style and fashion
may be all right at least as mere
r man may tell, but she affects q
= greater gaiety of color. something
more of a gala attire than her city
sister. or course this is easily ex
planned by the fact that the countr,
: girl in the city is usually on a holi
day, but at the safe time she ha'
grown mp without having always tt
take into consideration smoke an,
2. smut whom choosing her costumes.
l. There is one type of girl, pecu'ia
q TO the city, OF modern creation, bu
a 50 distinctive that it Is almost i'm
:. possible for the city bred man to mis-
g take it. This IS the stenographer. |
i seems as If there must be some subtl
{. psychological influence exercised b
a. the typewriter to cause curious M
n iformity in it's feminine manipulators
If. The stonographcr is always neat an
n quiet i'm her dress and movements
y and her hair Is usually done In weir
" and wonderful styles which are poss
Is bly, the latest word in coiffures, bu