The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-15

TO the second objection iS the same
that science gives its Questioners-
Science Is not concerned with who
uses, or to what uses are put, its dis
coveries. So the discoveries OF fashion
even to that Of coloring the hair,
or wearing dyed wig.
AS for the frst-there are still
races which carefully hide away nall
parings and hair combings because
they fear that some one, getting hold
OF them, will use them as spell
against the original owner. Even
IN civilized England, France, Amer
ica. you still find this belief. IT is
part Of the idea that what we may
call detacha Bile parts OF the body
carry with them identity, And in
the thought that the hair, because
we came to earth with It, must be
kept the same as 1t grew and grows,
we have q reflection Of the same
superstition.
AS It stands to-day there isn't
even the excuse that the hair Is nee
essary to us to justify the feeling
that 1t is Immoral" to do anything
we like with 1t, Our hair now is
simply and frankly an ornament
she wanted to have her head shaved,
would 1t be thought immoral II she
did so? Decidedly not. Absurd, per-
haps, but not immoral. Why then
should it be thought immoral to put
on more hair, or to change the color
Of that already on?
There are always a vast number
of folk who feel more or less acutely
that all beauty Is OF the evil one,
that one can't be gay without being
wicked and that the only proper vo-
cation Of mankind is to mourn. These
folk have even tlnctured the minds
OF the normal with shade Of their
apprehension. Consequently cutting
of the hair raises no question OF
morality because 1t makes one ugly
and anything ugly can't possibly be
of Satan But because changing the
color Of ones hair can be done for
no other reason than to make one
more attractive, 1t must necessarily
DE looked upon with suspicion
And how utterly unintelligent ts
that viewpoint
I think 1t Is immoral not to make
oneself as beautiful as one can.
Things as they are aren't so sacred
we mustn't try to better them. If
mankind had thought that, 1t never
would have progressed, Mans fight
has been against Nature throughout.
Nature makes the desert and nan
6ghts her and, With his irrigation.
turns the desert into a garden. II
you think tIuting ones hair pink
or blue Is very far off from reclaim
Ing q desert you're wrong
My discovery came about this way.
7 made a dress. 1t was for very
beautiful dark Parisienne- Il was
a very beautiful dress. The girl
tried 1T on and was delighted. l
was not 1t was more beautiful of
her than on--and that should not be.
What was the trouble? Its colors
were harmonious, vibrant, living, but
on her there came slowing OF the
vibrant quality, dulling. Suddenly
I knew what 1t was. 1t was her hair.
Her hair was a peculiarly deep black,
more brooding than alive-you will
understand me. touched 1t with a
blue powder and gave it here and
there the fash you get In the wing
OF the bluebird. And lot At onca
the dress grew moro alive, more
vibrant than 1T had been when she
had not worn It It was just that
note that 1t needed. 1t tuned 1t up,
accelerated 1t, gave 1t the proper
pitch-compI pIeted both dress and
woman
And then I tried other dresses and
other hair colorB with my models,