Hairdressing a la Mode.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue IV, 26 July 1902, Page 250

Hairdressing a la Mode.

11. The latest style for dressing the hair for the evening is delightfully simple and picturesque. The hair is worn low on the neck, with a curl on the shoulder, which varies in length according to the taste of the wearer and the length lof her tresses. Women blessed with naturally enrly hair will find no difficulty in dressing it in this manner; for those, however, whose curls go straight on the least provocation, cleverly-made curls on a long hairpin can be bought from 7/6 uprVards.

Now to show how to dress your hair iii this style. We will suppose that

you have hair of a fair quantity and length —most Australian girls have. The first stages are very similar to those already described in tile last article. The hair is first brushed well, and then the circle of hair taken out as before, but tied low at the back instead of .on top. The frame or pad is now put on. and the hair turned back over it in pieces, three at the back and three at the front, making it lie smoothly and evenly over the pad. so that it is all hidden. Tie these pieces together as in the previous description, so making one strand.

Then divide a small piece of hair from the tail to make the Empire eurl on the shoulder. This is just curled over a stick, and let hang from beneath the coiffure on whichever side suits your face the best. Now divide the strand of hair into two separate pieces, as in Figure 2. Pin the left-hand piece up out of the way, and fluff up the other strand by combing the wrong way of the hair very gently, while you hold the ends firmly. Then coil the strand

rather tightly. Hohl the coil with the right hand about four inches down from the tie and double the ends back towards the ties with the left hand, and hold it there; then take the right hand away, and the hair will make a pretty twist of itself, as you will see in Figure 3. The ends are

then twisted round the tie and pinned in. Now take the piece of hair that has been pinned out of the way and eoil it. bring it over to the right side and form into a loop, and pin low beside the first coil. Take the ends over and form another loop on the left side to match that on the right, and then dispose of the ends tidily (Figure 4). The second coil is something like the figure 8 put sideways. When flowers are worn they are put low on the neek on the opposite side of the head to the curl. This style can also be worn during the day. but the curl is best omitted except for such occasions as a garden party or wedding, and should then be

worn only with a picture hat. The same style looks very nice when worn in the house without the curl, and with a black velvet bow fastened in low on the left side. These bows are

a great craze just now. (Figure 5.) Sketch No. 6 shows a pretty and most becoming hairdressing for a girl to wear before she puts her hair up. The hair is simply combed back from the forehead, leaving pretty little curls round the face, or it can be parted La the centre and waved at the sides. It is plaited at the back, and the ends doubled up underneath, and tied at the nape of the neck with a broad bow of black glace or velvet ribbon. The smartness of this style greatly

depends upon having a broad bow of fairly wide ribbon. It is best to tie the end of the plait with a woollen string, and also to put a hairpin in it. to make it fall flat at the back. The plait should be from five to eight inches in length.

How Ycu Can Think Yourself to Death. Thousands of people actually think themselves to death every year by allowing their minds to dwell on morbid subjects. As a rule the thought that kills relates to something the individual dreads more than anything else in the world. There is the germ ol fatal thought in ninety-nine persons in every hundred, and the exception is only proof against the thought disease by having been inoculated with the lymph of optimism or phib osophy. The idea that one has some incipi ent disease in one’s system, the thought of financial ruin, that one is getting on in life without improving prospects—any of them, or a thousand similar thoughts, may carry r. healthy man to a premature grave. A melancholy thought that fixes itself upon one’s mind needs as much “doctoring” as physical disease. It needs to be eradicated from the mine', or it will have just the same resul as a neglected disease would have The thought disease sometimes cures itself after running- its course. So does small pox. But who would settle down to suffer from small pox and chance recovery, as thousands of foolish persons settle down to let the thought disease which has at tacked them do its worst? Every melancholy thought, every morbid notion, and every nagging worry should be resisted to the utmost. and. the patient should be physicked by cheerful thoughts, of which there is a store in everyone's possession. bright companions—cheaper than drugs, and pleasanter.

There have occurred scores of dozens of eases where healthy persons have thought themselves into having tumours and cancers—cases which admit of no doubt whatever that the disease resulted from constant morbid fear. There might possibly be fewer cases of cancer if some great doctors could assure the world that it is not a hereditary disease; but morbid minded persons, on hearing that there is cancer in their families, generally do the very worst thing they can do under the circumstances - they conceive an awful dread that they will be afflicted with it. They dwell upon the fear constantly, and every trifling ailment which troubles them is at first mistaken for the premonitory symptoms of cancer. The morbid condition of mind produces a morbid condition of body, and if the disease does happen to be in the system it receives every encouragement to develop.