Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

to the second objection is the same
chat 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 a dyed wig.
As for the irst-there are still
races which carefully hide away nail
parings and hair cOmbings because
they fear that some one, getting hold
Of them, will use them as a spell
against the original owner. Even
In civilized England, France, Amer
lea, you still find this belief. 1t is
part of the idea that what we may
call detachable 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 it grew and grows,
we have a 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 it is immoral" to do anything
We like with it. Our hair now is
simply and frankly an ornament.
If one, for instance, decided that
she wanted to have her head shaved,
would it be thought immoral if 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 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 tinctured the minds
Of the normal with shade Of their
apprehension. Consequently cutting
off the hair raises no question OF
morality because it 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, it must necessarily
be looked upon with suspicion.
Anu HOW uLIcIlJ uHluLSllA5Gub -
that viewpoint!
l think it 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. II
mankind had Wrought that, it never
would have progressed. Mans fight
has been against Nature throughout.
Nature makes the desert and plan
fights her and, with his irrigation,
turns the desert into a garden. II
you think tinting ones hair pink
or blue is very far off from reclaim
Ing a desert you're wrong.
My discovery came about this way.
l made a dress. 1t was for a very
beautiful dark Parisienne. Ii was
a very beautiful dress. The girl
tried 1t on and was delighted. /
was not. 1t was more beautiful off
her than on-and that should not be.
What was the trouble? Its colors
were harmonious, vibrant, living, bnt
on her there came slowing of the
vibrant quality, a dulling. Suddenly
knew what it was. 1t was her hair.
Her hair was peculiarly deep black,
more brooding than alive-you will
understand me. 1 touched it with
blue powder and gave it here and
there the flash you get in the wing
of the bluebird. And 10! At once
the dress grew more alive, more
vibrant than it had been when she
had not worn it. 1t was just that
note that it needed. 1t tuned it up,
accelerated it, gave it the proper
pitch-completed both dress and
woman.
And then l tried other dresses and
other hair colors with my models.