Show H d f. i 1 t ir f Jt 1 r if Sy f ty ir If f iJ t f. i It LOW HOW AND PRETTY FOREHEADS FORTH DS A-DS FOR WOMEN The Curl Curly Bang and the Low Waring Waring War War- ing Pompadour Pompadour Great ur G Great eat Beauty Makers Makers High High Foreheads Intellectual Intellectual Intel Intel- Perhaps but Not a Prett Pretty Pretty Pret Pret- t ty Feature of a Womans Woman's Face Save in iri Rare Instances Instances Instances-Ar- Arrange Ar- Ar range range e the Hair Becomingly the Rule Evolved After Centuries of Experiments I The scientists who make the mentally mentally mentally men men- tally defective tive t their study must have settled it it to everybody's satisfaction that hair growing low on the forehead sign of Idiocy for bangs are be being i ing g n neatly dovetailed upon the low sweeping pompadour ur and no one utters a word of of- protest The time was when the Introduction introduction of that same soft insinuating bang was re received with a whirl of Idiots fringe was one of the mildest names applied to it by scandalized scandalised husbands and fathers who had pinned th their ir faith to women with high open foreheads surrounded by meek and also excessively sleek bands of hair This was all very well as to sentiment sentiment senti senti- ment but Is there a woman living who would not rather look pretty though slightly f feeble ebl minded than homely though never so thoughtful thought though f ful l From the the st standpoint of the greatest good forthe forthe for tor the greatest number there never were such helpful friends to o the feminine feminine feminine fem fem- kind as the curly bang and the low waving waving waving ing pompadour which sweeps sweeps' th the eyebrows This is perhaps because because because be be- cause the forehead is unbeautiful unbeautiful unbeautiful un- un beautiful more often than any other part of ot the Uie countenance A woman may have an shaped ill-shaped mouth or a crooked n nose nose se or little eyes and no eyebrows eyebrows eye eye- brows and still be pretty if her hair is becomingly arranged d but If ff all her other features are well enough and she has bas an anex- anex ex- ex r enough to endure one of those trying expos exposures res of the forehead she must have been very handsome indeed Nowadays when the hair is draped so becomingly over over the Imperfections of tl the the e brow all girths s are pretty tty Monotonously Monotonously so perhaps for we often need to ha v fJ a famous beauty pointed out outto outto outto to us she looks so exactly like all other women With the Greeks the hair grew well over over the frontal curve curve of the head down to the middle of the forehead but the brow was very wide at the temples if not high and in accepting the classic standard of beauty this must be considered the ideal type of forehead Evidently though it was very far from the ideal of Christian Europe for women at least during the greater part of ot 2000 years Whether er the monkish critics of ot fashion who ing white forehead was considered the proper accompaniment for ui the wondrous wondrous wondrous won won- drous horned homed forked st and heart shaped head dresses which were long in id fashion So much was a high forehead admired admired admired ad ad- mired that the hair was was was' sometimes shaved back till half the head was bare Sometimes it was fashionable to have the forehead round sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times oval and sometimes sq square are or with the charming widows widow's peak Though Though crimping pins and curling irons are of unknown antiquity and were frequently used to wave the longhair long long- longhair longhair hair the delights of a genuine bang bang- were almost unknown from classic times till the reign of Elizabeth In Inthe Inthe Inthe the time of Charles I. I a little charmIng charm- charm charming charming Ing babyish fringe was allowed to soften the outline of the forehead In Charles ILs IL's day this had degen degenerated rated r rJ ow 1 J I u o KS r f yS 1 j JI I In These Days a Noble Brow Was Ad mired high forehead with the hair growing upon it in an awkward line and and ands and's is Is' Is obliged by fashion to display It ItIn itIn itin In simplicity she will never be mo more more e than a nice sensible looking person 1 It is i's no r wonder w wo wo hear So so much about the Uie great beauties In those days for tor if It a ai woman was woo good looking Man stormed so hard and usually accomplished accomplished accomplished so little succeeded in that one instance in iq impressing on th the f feather feather- athe heads heads- headst t the e theory that hair growing low on the forehead indicated an animal animal animal ani ani- mal nature If not a feeble mind it is is impossible to say but certain It ia is that during mediaeval times almost without without without with with- II out exception a large expanse of ot shin shin- l j J L Lj j vinto v into lawless straggling locks Then came the period of Imposing and stately coiffures beginning with the commode and running through pompadours of various sizes which left the forehead quite bare again then tl the reign of mock sentiment when the hair was cropped and curled In a thousand tendrils which fell gracefully Into the eyes and were supposed supposed sup sup- posed to express the extreme limit of unconventionality After this were the long years of the middle nineteenth century when pretty feminine decorum was the keynote keynote keynote key key- note of all hairdressing This was was me of the meek neat part from which bands of hair smooth and shining shining shining shin shin- ing from pomade drooped to frame the high oval brow The next step a a great one brings us around to the bang again and this time It was the much abused idiots 1 fringe It served a good purpose though for wh when m after running through several forms it finally went to the he place where all good fashions fashion go It left as its legacy the theory that thai t tall all the main object in life ute and from that time be the e fashion what It mayno may mayno may no woman with a high unsightly tore lore head has felt herself obliged to expose all Its shortcomings to the gaze of a a. critical public New NewYork New York Sun |