Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-09
EAR, BARE OF HAIR,
MADE EN- STARE;
SHE DIDN'T CARE
Young Woman Boldly Intro
ducing Style Novelty FIG6-
berqists Chou PoUU0IC.
By VIRGINIA REYER.


I was lunching in one Of our most pop
ular little chow houses which caters
mostly to the fairer, if not the weaker
sex, and there was q babble Of many
tongues. There were, IN fact, so many
voices all speaking at once one could
scarcely hear ones self think.
Each young woman was busy picking
her chicken salad and her neighbor' s
frock to pieces when suddenly the racket
stopped Each one held her breath and
craRed her neck as far as possible. l
sensed mystery in the atmosphere and
knew that something unusual was i'm
pending. And 1t certainly was.
1t was a young lady and she was nice
ly dressed. having a hat tht came down
over one ear and IN over the other. Now,
instead Of covering that other ear with
hair, as any nice, respectable young LADY,
nowadays, would do, she deliberately
pulled her hair right up off OF it and
pinned 1t on top OF her head. Well. we
all sat and looked and blushed and
thought il only she had left a little
bit Of hair down over it, but she hadn't
left a hair, not one. The people at
whose table she sat. couldn't eat, they
were so fabbergasted, and the waiter
dropped a trayfuI of dishes.
REMEMBERED
SHE HAD EARS.
/ was suddenly and forcibly reminded
that I also had ears, although l had
actually forgotten It and I recalled the
olden days when the fond mothers said
to their daughters, BE sure your ears
are clean" Now, I suppose they prob
ably say. BE sure your knees are clean, 81
and probably, too, the latter are much
easier to keep clean, not having so many
labyrinths and secre passages as are 70
be found in ones ear. Oh, they wash the
ears now. l guess, but In sort of alb
sent minded. haf-hearted way and It's
been several years since we have heard
Of a girl who may have frozen her ears.
which is certainly one thing in favor Of
the present style OF ear camouhage-
But styles must come and go-that Is
why they are stylish-and I find a down
town store still has a perfectly lovely
line OF moustache cups which they can
sell for love or money and several stores
are overstocked with beautiful sets Of
smelling salts because young women now
feel it unnecessary to carry these re-
Cooperative agents with them. Then, too,
family albums can be had in the hand
soonest and warmest Of red pushes for
almost nothing, but who wants an al
BUMP They are no longer on the legit-
mate entertainment list On the other
hand the stores have hard trouble keep
ing stocked with dice sets that can be
bought in plain tailored style or set In
silver or gold and jeweled with dia-
monds.
CORsETs ON
WANE. TOO.
Two other things | must mention that
have felt the cold distain Of fashion and
found themselves in the discard
First. corsets. There are few be
nighted people who still must suffer them
selves to be shut up In these castings but
so many do not see any use in wearing
them that they are becoming a drug on
the market and most any day you can ex-
pect to read Of the suicide of some ex-
elusive corset manufacturer.
Second. dancing schools and teachers
They are absolutely passe though they
are making a CHASTITY effort to emerge
from the hollow tomb. Have you heard
the dancing masters met In the East
somewhere and decided that they must do
something or descend upon the poor farms
in n body. So they are thinking up a
new step or something and are going TO
make II so hard that people VIII have to
patronize the dancing schools TO learn It
The dancing for the last couple Of years
has been entirely too easy and natural
and cheap for the ld-time professional
terpsichorean artists and so something
has got to be done about it.
Well. maybe they will succeed but the
ladies are quite well accustomed to start
ing STYLES themselves and they may
not be interested in spending their money
that way.