Show WOMANS CROWNING GLORY olive logan says say american women no do t not ot bako cure care of their hair wandering upon a time through gli the fields of a small provincial town fix england gland I 1 came upon one of those interesting exhibitions exhibition so 0 the kind which no doubt have been geen in britain since t the lie middle ages A caravan of wild beasts in ili charge ofa of i family of 0 mountebank had been becu brought to a halt arid and pic grouped upon the greensward in front of the temporary stage which had been cre cled the hie preceding night were to be seen all the gaping mouthed 3 yokels ikels of tile village eager to view the many marvels promised ed on payment of a silver amons among the wonders I 1 found an all announcement of tile lie display of her great natural curiosity by miss montmorency aged 10 I 1 fancied that the girl might bo be one of those hose ge vocalists whose voices seem compounded from the masculine and feminine range lut lilt when the rosy checked aass appeared we ired it came out that her great cur ur iosty was her hei hair which fell upon the floor and drag dragged ca like a court mantle mylien she walked there is 13 a reaction jn in favor of hair for several years its glories have been clouded but ot of late there has been a manifest desire to possess a luxuriant crown of i capillary cabill ay treasure biblical eulogy is mot lac lacking kiri anent the surpassing splendor ot of womans comans hair while as tor for that of men abundant al hair has from the time of the ancients been considered the attribute of divinity th vinit y what painter what sculptor of old has ever represented jupiter apollo or neptune without a glorious quantity of beautiful hair phidias said that his big statue of jupiter olympus was in inspired by homer whose pages arc are full of apostrophes to the splendor of the hair of his heroes virgil to express the power of a bcd cd said that the shaking of ilia his hair caused all olympus to tre tremble mb ic coming down to modern days who can forget the poetic assertion that beauty draws us by a single haiz american families in general have fine hair it grows abundantly like other Tege vegetables tables under these favoring shies lint but chev do riot not take altogether good care of 0 it ylie the hair needs a great ocal deal of ventilation ti it should be brushed and separated by a wide toothed comb morning and evening it should lie be allowed to langdown hang bang down untrammeled by combs pins or strings when one is in ili dis dishabille babille but no married woman should ever appear in company with dishevelled dishevel led hair A few years bears ago this frantic mode prevailed among women cf poor taste and limited reading the flowing hair bair Ss is the mark of a virgin in all pie pictorial art and is so mentioned by horace walpole in the history of painting 1 published more than years ago queen victoria will not permit a married woman whose hair fair is living ilyina about her shoulders to approach lier her presence but tile the little wales and edinburgh girls lier grandchildren wear their golden locks unfettered by the snood in spite of the dictum of interested hair sellers arid and hairdressers nothing is so beautiful and becoming to a woman as luxuriant natural hair simply twined about the head while a truant love lock hero bere and there escapes from bondage and tails falls in curves of beauty on the brows olive logan in new york mail and express |