THE MASCULINE FRINGE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1978, 8 March 1893, Page 6

THE MASCULINE FRINGE.

There is no doubt that the fringe across the forehead, that is now so universal, is exceedingly becoming to the male. It imparts just that touch of delicate softness to the countour of the face which the revolutionised development of the sexoa at the present time seems to call for. Our women are becoming stalwart in body, and mind; and coincidently our men are displaying a delicate diminution of muscle, nnd a mild amiability of disposition which, when accompanied by a soft-whiskered face, and gracefully fringed forehead, are quite irresistible It has long been foreseen by women that a change of characteristics and places between them and men was the order of development ia the near future. The men, too, have now discovered this, and the enthusiasm with which they have taken up their new role argues well for the peace of the domestic hearth, and the well-being of our fulure woman-governed estate. Tbo new departure began where it was inevitable that it should begin, among the cultured classes, and at Oxford and Cambridge more especially. But so, rapid is the spread of culture in the^i days that it has already extended $q the middle and lower classes. I^ct Allah be duly praised ! The butchers young man, calling the other day, had a fringe which was positively ecstaticlong, silky, shiny, with beatiful perfumed marrow.its ample flow concealing bis otherwise too obtrusive forehead, »nd bis ©jtreajitiee kiEsipg with

touching affection tbe pimply Bkin stretched out over the nasal bones — be was truly a thing of * 5 beauty," and to some muscular Pbylis he will doubtless be a " joy for ever." It was almost impossible to imagine anything morta glorious, even in the way of Greek gods. But ft more striking object still awaited the writer that very morning in the person of the most juvenile! of porters at the railway station. To describe the youthful Hyperion, as sublimed by an incomparagable fringe of the most copious magnitude, is impossible. Let it be uuderstood that astonishment, not to say awe, was the prevailing sentiment among all the* first-class passengers. They felt that th^ir day was over. We cannot hut be grate! ul — wo are grateful — both for rapid spread of such finished culture, and for the beautiful ease and graco with which even tbe largest limbed of our masculine population are yielding to the growing and inevitable supremacy of the other sex. — "The Hospital."