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Show PATIENT, SUBMISSIVE WOMAN. There is no telling what women will wear. Whatever fashion decrees, de-crees, the women will accept. Years ago the girls wore bustles and the larger the protuberance the more to be envied was the wearer. Then came spit curls. Prior to that time, artificial curls were adornments, adorn-ments, and antedating curls were hoop skirts. Any woman, walking downtown today with a bustle attached, would be inviting laughter and derision. But there is something equally equal-ly as grotesque about to be inflicted on gentle, submissive woman. It is the Spanish comb, which is all the rage in Paris and London and is advertised to cross the ocean. It is described as a tremen-f? tremen-f? dously large and tremendouslv high comb, made o( tortoise shell, spangled with jewels, and rising from the back of the head "like a rampart," as the foreign fashion authorities declare, have been adopted by Spanish women in Mexico and such metropolitan centers in South America as Caracas, Rio Janeiro. Buenos Ayres and Santiago. ! ( A well-informed authority says : "Experts in feminine styles say the Spanish comb like the Spanish influenza will sweep the world and there seems little hope of saving! the United States from the epidemic. When the outbreak will occur! or where, no one at present may predict. There is a fashion at prcs-ent prcs-ent in the United States for more than usually large and elaborate hair: ornaments and jeweled combs which might seem the advance courier I i of the Spanish malady. But the combs so far worn are of moder-. tcj size. If the Spanish comb arrives on these shores, a social crisis is predicted It may be necessary, it is thought, to pass laws or ordi-, nances, regulating its height and such signs as 'Ladies will please remove re-move their combs' may be expected to be posted up or flashed upon the screen i;i theaters. Spanish combs form a quaint background for the wearer's face and cieate romantic suggestions of castinets and) guitars anc latticed windows. They are smart looking. But they are big." One innovation already has crossed the Atlantic. It is the Marcel wave and the announcement is made that the wave has reached Ogden. Og-den. Soon every girl and woman will be carried away on the billowy bil-lowy waves of this newest fad. Is woman fickle or is she just a victim of circumstance) |