The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-10-01
SOCIETY
and CLUBS

How shall comb my hair?" This
Is the question that is sure to be
heard, IL one ventures into a friends
room at the hair dressing period in
her toilet. Sh, surveys her hair on the
table, there Is mountain OF puffs
and curls, a very good match, really
then long braid dangling from the
side of the glass almost the same
color, and then you look at the hair
proper that is fast on the head of
the poor pcrpleXed girl and it sudden
ly occurs to you that the natural
hair is very beautiful and luNurant
if one just had II chcnce tu get Il
proper view of It, from under the
elaborate coifrure, that is placed on
top.
Sometime ago, Paris hair-drcssers
competed for a handsome prize. Each
secured pretty mannikin and their
those Coiffeurcs went to work. They
spent hours with puffs and braids ana
built marvellous. Assyrian structures
marvellous from an architectural
point of view. and when they had
completed the herculean task. invited
in the judges. The first prize went
to an ediface that makes one think
of the rambling palace of an ancient
Bluebeard The coffeurcs were delight
ed with the results of their labor;
they pictured to themselves the French
women wearing the back stoop effect,
an effect, however, that can only be
properly attained by the dcft fingers
of a hair dresser, fingers first crossed
with gold. They reckoned without the
French women The well bred
Parisenne came to see the displayed
coifrurcs. they stepped about gigner-
ly without any diplay of enthusiasm
and then went quietly home and dress
ed their hair i'm the very extreme, as
plainly as possible The mercenery
coiffeurs were crcstfallen, there remain
ed just one thing, to impress the
elegance of these cOiffurcs upon the
general public And now. SAYS Mar
garet Hubbard Ayers, in the New
York World. some women are fool
ish enough To really believe that these
styles of hair-dressing enhance their
looks, so that you see on the one
hand hidcous Chiguons and ON the
other coinuros Of perfect simplicity
copied from Greek statuary or from
portraits of First Empire beauties
The ridiculous style Of wearing the
hair is simply another phase Of the
exagurated styles in hats and dresses
that have been taken up by cN-
tremists These extremists imagine
that they are creating a something
individually new and different
when in reality they only succeed in
creating some ridiculous rad style
that Is hungrily grusp"d by the un-
original appendages and followers
who take up these styles ands pass
them on 10 their followers. Among
the really well dressed and well bred
people one sees absolutely no So called
Assyrian structures hut the hiar dress
ed neatly and hecomingly and with
some individuality expressed.
IL is the same with the hubbls
skirt and other such creations They
are scorncd by the dependable dress
makers and good originatOrs, who al
solutely refuse to indorse such mon
strosities They, however are panncd
off on the poor pubic In general, and
the first thing you know, you see hal!
dozen hohblerS, hobbling around on
the streets In home made hohblcrs
that are really pathetic,
And what can be done? Nothing
There is however, one good and alto
gether splendid result that has beer
evoved from the mad age Of extrem'
lists, II is teaching women to think fol
themselves, to be Independent OF die
tates and to rcly upon their owr
taste, sense and Judgment when they
select patterns for their frocls. \ re
cent bride, who understands the ar
of dress, thought, just because III
was to be bride, that she should
seek coffeur and have her hal
dressed for the occasion. II took
long time TO put her pretty tresse
and they are golden and this is
real live person. into pufrs and curl
and ringlcts. And when that hair
dresser had completed the task an'
had been paid for all the preciou