Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-14
EVE, WITH GOLDEN HAIR,
WAS THE FIRST JANE
Half Woman's Time is Spent to
Keep it From Hanging Down
Back.

Eve was the original Jane-with her
golden hair Arranging down her back.
| have seen several pictures OF Eve -
surreptitously and she had lovely
hair, always arranged with seeming
carelessness, but with as much regard
for decency as was possible under the
circumstances | have always won
dered what the photographers would
have done in the Garden of Eden If
Eve had persisted in doing her hair up
high.
1t is no business of mine-of course
how women do up their bark hair.
so long A. they do 1T in the boudoir; but
when they come to the office and keep
doing it up all day il wcaries the flesh
Some OF the girls nowadays peer out
between their coifTure like Spite dog
through his matted locks They have
succeeded in training some OF their
hair to curl out around their ears and about
six inches past their noses and it takes
good deal Of time Ia keep II there.
They have to stop between your impas-
stoned declarations "Your letter of the
18th inst rec d and in reply will state
TO curl that spitlock around their fingers !;
look around and sec il their abbreviated
skirts have gone 10 hallooning since
last heard from and then, settling them
selves again in thc char, will calmly
60 on to write Your letter of the 18th
incident received In general, the more
hair and the farther front II protrudes
and the more it is marcellcd the less
efficiency and the poorer spelling
Venus dc Milo was another rather
good-looking girl. Next to I've. whom
We admire for maternal reasons, she
! ] I al
make. Well, Venus did not seemingly
waste any time on her hair II was
drawn back ia neat wave, plugged
M and thcro il stayed She said to
Jupiter one day: 'Jupc, believe me,
| am one of those women who never.
never touch their hair from morning
10 night" And Jupiter said ''Vecn
YOU suit me from the ground up. Venus
has been reasonably successful. She
has had stars named for her; she has
been put up at n good many clubs, IN
marble Why, then, cannot the modern
woman follow her example and find
some sort of static condition of hair
Why do they move the terminal sta
tion OF the hair, otherwise the pug
from side 10 side from back to front
and literally go over the top with
1t every three monthso You and | re-
call when it hung low on the horizon
over the coat collar; then it leaped TO
the bridge of the nose, then i. hung over
the left ear and then over the right
Then it was obIterated altogether and
made into an impresslonlstic picture
Of a hayhcld after the grass was cut
Then il was PsyChicd or Clytied or
otherwise tied and stuck out several
feet due west into the horizon
Then il was pulled out at the side
until girl coming head on, looked
like a yacht with her spinuaker and
ballooner set coming down before the
wind Then il developed nets and rats,
and looked like 4 bag Of meal on the
noble front of lovcllneSs Then It cul-
tivatcd a suggestion of wlllful disorder,
sort Of zephyr-hlown carclessness.
like ball Of yarn both ends of which
have been lost IN the knitting Aud nov
marvel of marvcls Il Is hiding the
ears and will next be cWrlcd around
the lip into an imitation mustachc and
around the chm into feminine whiskcrs
a la spinach
Hear me again, oh, fellow country
man do not care damb revised
spelIingl about it hut the other day
| saw a young woman with fine we'll
groomed hair, drawn neatly back and
not a single up-to-date chorus girl.
Vernon Castle fummidlddlc about it,
and | was happy all day long And
went home and took down the picture
Of my grandmother with her hair worn
at SO exactly as it was worn III 20. and
| Said 10 it, Grandma her. under
stand now The reason you accomplished
so much in your life is because YOU did
not have to devote % per cent OF your
ime 10 studying some new place TO put
that dear old pug - LewiStown journal