The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

have a downtown place."
Then one can run in and get a mani
cure or massage when they are shopping
without the inconvenience of coming all
the way out here" I observed. what
you say about the increase in your pat
ronage certainly speaks well for the peo-
pie here-and that they are talking a
great deal of interest in their looks.
Don't you think so?"
Decidedly replied Mrs. Porter.
why, when I first came. here, patrons
would come to me with their hair tied
up with string that was as sleek as
glass and couldn't be induced to part with
1t under any circumstances, she laugh
fngly said. Now they want everything.
from the string out, to be the newest and
the best"
What do you think of the new Golf
fure?" I asked
1T is becoming to many" replied Mrs
Porter. I'm fact, it gives the head beau
tiful lines. and you won't find man in
town who does not like 1t. It just shows,
though, how they can be fooled. They
will say to their wives, L am SO glad that
you have taken off all that false hair:
those puffs. rats and curls, ana that you.
are fixing your haid simply When as a
matter of fact, there Is more false hair
used bow than ever before and it is lust
twic as expensive"
u oppose It's nothing to see $50 worth
vi mar on the simplest head-no, mean
couture, of course suggested.
This coronet braid right here" said
Mrs. Porter, as she picked up a beautiful
gray one, sis $780,"
And do you think that the hair braid
ed around the head is a style that has
come to stay?' asked.
L think 1t is merely en- PEASANT" she
said with tendency towards the high
head dress of the long ago. Mind Won.
| THIS Is merely surmise with me- how
ever"
And are there many ornaments used
In the best dressed coiffures?' I asked
1T is a season of pins, combs, tiaras.
oandeaux and all such things" she an
swered, although the barrette is scarce,v
seen now except the long, slim, narrow
ones For full dress the clusters of
gold and silver wheat are the newest
thing"
| and is the poor. much abused, insan-
ltary rat reduced to state of innocu-
GUS desuetude?' I asked.
Don't say 1t is insanitary,, she re-
Piled, for properly attended to and
worn, 1t isn't But it has seen its bast
day. The hair is arranged almost entire
~ now without the rat OF course you
Know the secret of becoming hair Dress
ing u.s. that no matter how carefully the
hair is arranged 1t must not look SO. No
matter now many hours are spent mas
saying, shampooing and waving rebel
iious locks, they must look natural with
mat sort, pretty, effect around the face.
as though the artfully placed pins had
nothing whatever to do with It,"
wouldn't 1t be lovely to be a man"
said, and not have to bother with
having ones hair dressed? Maybe one
OF the kind without any hair at all, as
BIZ Nye once expressed 1t, with the un-
abating forehead stretching from collar
button to collar button.'-'
But men should pay attention to their
hair" said Mrs. Porter, land many of
them do. The we'll groomed, wen dressed
men OF today enjoy a facial massage
ana manicure as well as the most fas-
t1dious woman. l am going to mako a
oPoSioiey VI department. Tor men in
my new parlors In the Empire building.
as many of my patrons have advised it.
and indeed have requested me to do So
ON account of the convenience of it,.
DO many people take to face mas
sage?' l asked as saw lady bask-
Ing In the sunlight, in a great. easy
chair, while the nimble fingers of the
clever masseuse played light tattoo up-
| on her physiognomy like the simple OPEN
, ing theme of Bach fugue, then more
! deep and thrilling as the Developments
| are introduced.
"Oh. yes" said Mrs. Porter ut is SO
! soothing and then SO beneficial
| All of which / quite realized as I
! glanced again at the masseuse's fingers,
| ever and anon being placed over the SUBJ
| ject's ears, thence upward and down
| ward, finally meeting in blissful union
| at the center OF her forehead till she
| looked like little babe who had been
! hushed to sleep with the sweetest of
| lulabys.
How lovelyr' 1 exclaimed, 1T makes
| me sleepy too"
you have no idea how much of ones
own electricity and fire goes into the
| treatment of the hair and face" said
| Mrs. Porter, as l arose to go. why,
| on days like these, when there are from
| six to ten affairs, each day and every
| body In town wants to be massaged and
! coiffured and manicured, am that tired
| at night that feel as II couldn't raise
finger. .
well, you are Z very wonderful wom-
| am I said, with your busy Ifs TO al
| ways look SO beautifully groomed your
| self a. well - making otnsr pssJas look
the part"