Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-07-26
DOWN WITH TWO coLoRED HAIR.

DOWN WITH TWO COLOREO rA'1'
DR.. G. Walter Barr Of Keokuk mas
written q message to the girls OF MS
city that should cause stir IN the
'boudoirs OF Keokuk. DR.. Bars theme
lis "Hair" not red hair, or brown hair
,or black hair, but first in protest
against blending Of color schemes in
an EFFORT to improve on the hirsute
growths provided by Mother Nature.
And whether you agree with the doc
tor or not you must be fair enough to
admit that with no more aid than that
afforded by a departed celestials
Queue he has woven right good yarn,
figuratively speaking, Of course. The
doctor lifts his clarion voice In the
Keokuk Standard, his paper, IN this
strain:
With the present fashion OF wearing
j q big lot of hair on the poster1or part
OF the head have no quarrel know
the hair generally comes from dead
Cinnamon but no doubt his widow
| needed the price she got for It, 1t is
true that there is palpable fraud In
wearing false hair to deceive people
into thinking one has crown OF h1r-
suite glory: but If we are going to re-
move the frauds from women's dress,
we might as we'll stop being charmed
by womankind at once, and That would
be foolish indeed If women want to
wear big COB of hair hung on behind
like hornets nest on tree trunk,
far be it from the present writer to
file any objections.
But one has right to insist on some
details Especially, if one valves on
everything else, one feels justified in
demanding one thing in the name of
art-harmony-and the eternal veri-
ties, not speaking of common decency,
and the boards Of health Consequent
". The Standard is going to begin
right here and now campaign for the
unities and one reform In the wearing
of those gobs of hair.
The hair must be all Of one color!
or else The Standard will carry this
crusade to the legislature, to congress,
to the supreme court, and finally 10
Theodore Roosevelt.
With some training in practical poll
tics, some experience in the dlssectlng
room of a medical college, and as
surgeon, some observation OF the I'M
cleanliness of the submerged fraction
OF humanity. and some training IN the
analysis of city sewerages, the writer
OF these lines is not very weak OF
stomach.
But to be compelled to stand or sit
for ten minutes with woman whose
back hair is of two very different
shades, wound in and out, combined
asymmetrically makes me feel seasick.
One gets used to handling corpses
and cancers that are normal forms or
dead matter. But one is not used to
seeing plainly labeled the fact that
part of the headdress of a woman IS
her own hair and part OF it is Off a
dead Chinaman. There is something
sentimental about hair, anyway--W1t-
ness the extraordinary dynamics Of
hair in the consomme.
Nothing is more weird, creepy, spine
chilling, chastity, cadaverish, than
mixture Of light brown hair and dark
brown hair on the head of girl with
a peachblow face. 1t is horrible,
shocking, dreadful, hideous, and makes
one think of putrefaction and persons
drowned In August. The other day
was chatting with a charming girl
when my eyes sensed her hair. The
difference between adjacent parts of
1t was at least four shades. felt my
self grow pale, queer tremble ran
over me; my talk became incoherent;
| felt exactly like a negro meeting a
white COW in a graveyard at midnight.
Let the dear creatures wear false
hair If they choose; but they have no
more right to wear two or three colors
of hair at once than they have to have
one eye chestnut and the other sky
HUE. or to wear one arm tanned and
brown and the other in baby pink.
And they have to stop it here in
Keokuk, or The Standard will conduct
q crusade that will stop it, If the
militia have to be called out.
II this is not sufficient to drive the
rats and braids and turbans out of
reach of the hatpins OF Keokuk's
femi1inity, DR.. Barr may be expected
to take sterner measures.
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