The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-02-26

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leadgear worn these days, but that
hardly to be hoped; for despite paini
and famine, disease, deaf
md destruction, Dame Fashions d.
'rees must be obeyed.
Our contemporary says:
"Of old 1t was writ: If wo-
man has long hair it is a glory to
her. Every woman is proud of
her hair. Paul said. 1t was CIV
en- her for a covering;' but Paul
was crusty old bachelor who
knew little or nothing about
women, although, like all old
bachelors, he thought he knew ev-
erything about them. As a COW
ering,' as mere capillary thatch,
a woman's hair Ia of small value,
especially in these glorious pres
ent days when Merry Widow or
Coal Scuttle hats are in full
bloom. A woman's hair is coro-
net of glory. 1t is given her for
adornment, just as the roses in
her cheeks, the light of her eyes,
the liquescence of her laughter or
the smile that pierces like dia-
mond dagger, were given her.
Dryden and Pope both say
that beauty can draw us with a
single hair, and they were indulg-
ing in no mere poetic license
when they said it. One strand of
a woman's hair is cord or cable,
and it's tensile strength Is equal
to that of a steel rope. The poets
and rhapsodists have all realized
this. They have all sung their
sweetest strains and spoken their
most eloquent phrases in praise
of hair of all colors, and even the
unmusical dolts who can neither
sing nor speak, when they see a
woman's Respondent hirsute
bounty, feel a strong and instinc-
tive desire to touch it or kiss 1t,
and in their stupid way sympa-
thize with the poet who wrote
Let me tangle my hand in your
hair, Jeanette.
Let me fondle the snood that
you wear, my pet.
But the hair must be her own.
It must be natural, even though
silver threads among the gold ap-
,ear. Counterfeiting, or dissim-
lltation would be intolerable, and
8 sure to draw down upon the
'ffender retributive vengeance.
let no woman suppose that any
.rt of the hairdresser or any raw
shment of her couture will make
man walk rather by faith than
" sight He knows. He can
ell the real from the spurious, the
xotic from the indigenous, what
angs from it's own roots from
hat is held in thrail by corrugated
airpins, and from all adventi-
ous amplification he will fee as
.om the glance of destiny.
There is another reason why
oman should never wear bought
air to increase her own abun-
a trifling reason to
he good ladies who are always
illing to take chance, but still
orthy of mention--it is extreme
dangerous. All the rats and
iris, ringlets and snoods, are
tipped to this country in bales,
liefly from China. They are
altered from various sources.
overly compels many women in
le warrens Of filth and disease
I'D squalor to sell their hair.
he heads of condemned malefac-
rs and paupers and those who
10 Of disease and plague, are
ipped and thrown into the heap,
18th their uncanny wealth of in
sible disease germs that riot in
e fresh pasturage offered by
'estern scalps.
Gases of leprosy and cancer
i've been traced to this source of
tie, and malignant and strange
fiictions, that have hitherto
zen inscrutably sporadic and
indigenous, are being
for in the same way by
e experts.
"If the good ladies must pile
elton upon Ossa and wear more
lory' than a parsimonious Ma
re has vouchsafed them, they
lould wear dolls hair, made of
lit and riven fax, or other fis-
porous fiber, for hygienic reas-
Is, II they care not for the rash
pigments and sneers of selfish
en-" i
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