Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — BANGS ARE BECOMING. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BANGS ARE BECOMING.

BUT THE HORRID FRIZZLE IS "ON THE LIST." The Present Bangs Are Each and All Examples »f the Survival or the Fittest— Don’t I.et Talk About Xew Hair Adjustments Bother You. Captivating Coiffures. Vew York cotsespondence:

FTEE all the talk about fillets, coronets and Greek “parts,” 1 and so on is over it •will still remain a I fact that the girl to I whom the bang is * distinctly becoming is and always will be, as she always has ~ been, a very pretty [ kind of girl. lucls dentally, she is apt ito look badly in a I Greek part. She is ' bright enough to know it, and smart

enough—the bang-style or girl is always smart—to pointedly stick to her bang, and let those who can do it, or who have not the sense to see that they can’t, wear their Grecian effects. She stays pretty in her own particular way, retaining her own dear bang. So, here ! a word about bangs. The horrid frizzle is, let us hope, gone ; forever. You may have as much or as little hair In the bang as you please, and as you can, but there must be only a little curl, and no side bang at all. That was an ugly style, too. We who wear bangs may congratulate ourselves that the present bangs are <vach and all examples of the survival of the fittest. If your hair is very thick at the forehead, you may make just a little fringe. Curve it down in the center, for now no bang is ever cut concave. Let it be a genuine fringe that shows the clear color of the skin where it lies over the forehead. This fringe is not curled at all, though of course, ft is not exactly straight. It has a turn In It. If it has it naturally, you need not bother about what sort it is, but if you have to “do” it, don’t risk more than one-half turn of the irons. The hair at the sides and top of tho head back of the bang may be waved, and for two reasons. For one, it is more dressy, end besides, if you have iput back'part of a previous bang in favor of the present fringe, you will find the hair very rebellious unless it is waved. Then, too, may be your hair is not very thick at tho forehead, in which case the waving makes it seem so.

This fringe is as becoming to-day to young girls, or to older faces that have

tike girlish look, as it ever was, ard if jvaurs is a face to which the style is beoeming don’t let the talk about new hair adjustments bother you. The girl with the bang has been much talked down. She is readily, imagined as either a school girl of the “what-der-yer-soy” type, or a most frlvolons and artificial creature. But that need not worry you. Your bang is not that kind. A thoughtful, girlish face of delicate oval wears the fringe charmingly. Such m. head dress as I have just described goes with downcast lids and wistful mouth very sweetly. Even the very prim girl suits her style of bang and looks the more quaintly prim and sweet ton it. She may not wish to adopt a Greek head-dress and a Greek part. Perhaps her hair will not part, some feair doesn’t, you know, and maybe she looks like the mischief with her hair parted. Besides, being just a quaint, prim girl, she does not want to peel her haiir straight back and look tike an uncompromising bluestocking. The hang is a happy compromise, so she cuitsaa tiny bit of fringe, then another above its end just covering the part of the first, and perhaps another still above. Each row gets its own half turn on ithe irons. There is just the needed “refllef” to the line of the brow, the owatavr of profile is softened, and the

bang in no way takes from the charm of the precisely poised head and the demure coil at the back. This sort of girl'is always daintily attractive. She has a bright, clear complexion, a good figure, well rounded neck and shoulders which she is most prudent about displaying, and ehe wears pretty gowns, and all with an air, from toe top of her moderate bang to the soles of her moderate shoes, of not bothering or caring desperately about her dresses or getup, anyhow. Now, bow would that type of girl be improved by a change in her head-dress? There, too, is the pretty girl who is a bit frivolous. She is naturally and unconsciously frivolous as a butterfly is light-hewted. Would you spoil her pretty face by putting classic touches to her head and parting her hair; or would you abolish her bang and leave ber with straight back hair.' Such a girt will cut a bang away back’ to the crown of her head, thereby getting rid of a lot of hair and making the coil at the back smaller and less calculated to interfere with the graceful outline of her head. The first two or three rows of the bang are tiny short lengths, and those further back are longer, so that they will not stand up and spoil the outline. The first fringes are slightly turned by the iron, and those nearer the top of tho bead are almost straight that they may lie more clo?ely to the head. She is thus as sweet and delicately pretty as she ean be, and a Greek cotffu:e would not suit her half so well. I might go on and quote any number of types that should stick to the bang. Some women may dignify their faces by parting tho hair at ibe foiebead, but for

most of you, do not do It. Fashions are not made to adapt yourself to, they are made to be adapted to you. They are not made to rule, but to serve, and If It suits your beauty you may consider them. If not, mate up a fashion for yourself, or t ake one from some other period, or stick to the old one, like the bang, and continue looking well in your own way.

The women with long, heavy hair had better cut the lengths off. Shoulder lengthisthe most convenient. Itknotson the top easily, and is easy to keep curled and clean. Then, too, you are much more apt to have nice heavy hair when you get old, and need a few charms to help you to H\e. Abovs all, you w{Jl bo mere In the present mode. Very heavy and long hair is more of u nuisance thau anything else. There is no way or doing it up, and you can’t always be preteuding Ophelia or Judith and let it hang. What has been written concerning the coiffures ot the fashionable women is i llustrated in the accompanying pictures. It may be added that these sketches were made at the great annual Charity ball in this city, and that they are portraits of five belles of the Four Hundred, drawn from life, in the Madison Square Garden, exactly as the original girls appeared as they posed unconsciously for the pencil of the artist. Not only are the faces of this quintette of swell girls shown with truthfulness, wearing the transient expression of the momont, but feminine readers will find in the corsages a clear notion of the new styles in low-ncoked gowns, as seen at this notable yearly exhibition. The subjects of portraiture sat regally

in boxes, for the McAllisterhm '‘exclusives” make it a point to sit and beam on the assemblage at tho Charity bait, without mixing much with the affair. Tickets are sold, you know, to whomsoever will pay ten dollars apiece for them, and that makes the occasion 'miscellaneous. Our imitation aristocracy attends this annual 'bnll for sweet.'charity's sake, but neatly cannot, you know, condescend to be anything further than patrons and patronesses. We are to wear night-oups agadti. Not content with attacking out husbands and the world at, large with the'now and confusing modes of long ago, W '.are going to carry it further and wonr nightcaps. The result, mark my 'words, will be a lot of lines. Out , into the night will rush Ut le, screaming figures, with mob caps on tihelr heads, land their tresses streaming down their backs. That is the nwadenn izoodiflcrttion of the old and somewhat ugly nightcap. The modern girl has discovered 'that, the cap is merely to keep the hair smooth st tho roots, and that it is very'unhealthy to have all th-e haiiir confined. One should let the long ends down thebaok just as usual, and have the cap tied under tho chin, set back of the bang, and with a ruffle ail around the face, and a bow under the chin. No-fireman will have the presence of mind to carry -a-creature so gotten up down a ladder, or I don’t know anything of human mature. As a matter of fact., it is -of importance to keep the hair smooth at’the roots. That is, since glossy locks -ase to be the rule*

as soon .a* *e -cwn gut them. We shall get them by putting glycerine with whatever *'e use to waeb the hair, by washing At freq neatly and by brushing It »ad wearing a night-nap. When it comes doom to fact, between you and me, the whole thing Is got tip.as un.exausu far the night-cap. Copyright, lsrtM.

FRIVOLOUR.

PRIM.