Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1875 — Tyrannical Fashion. [ARTICLE]

Tyrannical Fashion.

Probably no characteristic of the female mind is better developed than the docility with which women accept the fashions of the day. Be they beautiful or hideous, becoming or unbecoming, comfortable dr torturing, they are the “fashion” and must be worn. Take for example the hair. This, “the crowning glory” of a woman, can be worn as she pleases, and what work many make of it! Now a coiffure called the “Grecian knot” is coming into favor. Of it a recent woman writer says: “About one woman out of twenty-five has a head and features of the shape necessary to make this style becoming; given a broad, halfhigh, white forehead, rather straight nose, well-rounded face and throat, and the careless knot of hair low in the nape of the neck, with a pure white part in the center of the head, from which the hair ripples naturally over the temples and ears, is beautiful, making the wearer a Greek goddess at once, or, what is better nowadays, a charming American woman. But fake the remaining twentyfour women, who have all kinds of foreheads and features, and who are stately with their hair massed on the very top of their heads, or braided and banded smoothly neither high nor low, or be- c witchingl) coquettish and girlish with a chatelaine braid and a curl or two, finger puffs above the forehead and little rings falling over it; put the severe Greek knot low down on these heads, draw the hair over the pretty pink ears, narrow the temples and cheeks by almost obscuring them, and what is the result? The stately woman looks prim and belittled, the bright, coquettish one is ten years older, and in many cases startling defeats of features or odd expressions never before noticed by those who knew them best, and to whom they were once pretty, are developed by the change. "—Qraphic. , r —The Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias have refused a dispensation to organize a lodge of the .order on the island of Hawaii, composed of natives.