Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1925, Page 77

\ fashion THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGFON, D. €., MAY 24 1925—PART ions in Hairdressing for the Bobbed and the Unbobbed New Fash BY MARY MARSHALL HETHER or not bobbed hair | is to persist in fashion was A question that many fash- ion observers were willing . ‘o answer a few months or a year ago. They he.d quite definite opinions on the subject. Now they are less likely to make predictions. About half the commentors a year ago were ready with proof that bobbed hair was 8oing out, and the others were as ready (o try to prove Lo you that it would persist me went far as 10 insist that women would eventnaliy all become bobbed —-all hut few ec centrics, vho would eventnally die off —and that never would women have long hair again. They did not realize perhaps. that never very lons word even 1o apply favorite 5 students fashion= were these observers Now you m: have difficulty in find any one who will speak with so h conviction either in favor of or inst the hob. Things have hap. pened to ake situation appear more confused. If vou have I holdings in & hair pin factory vou look hopefully around f signs of returning hair, and if You want (o sell that stock you may be able 1o pui ub a good argument If vou ave engaged in the business of hobhing hair and want to make that Your life work yvou view with satis faction the fact that there is not the slizhtest letting up in the procession of women who want to be bobbed: and that there is an encouraging number of “first offenders is really true that the owner of An American hairpin factory, recently in B gave it as his opinfon that bobbed hair was on the decrease. ‘It is going out of fashion,” he said, “‘be- cause it makes women look gawky: it makes them look all alike and tends to make them bald,’ At he same time a Paris hair dresser who has been cutiing women's hair for seven reporied as having said no waning of he fashion moreover waid surprising much individu ality can be got into that close-cropped ¥ no two of the handsomely dressed men who frequent the pi e the establishment where he wields the scissors and the curling irons—come out alike. One thing that helps keep the #hingle and the bob in favor is the effect it has npon the one who wears it Scientists and psychologists are speaking quite seriously ¢ the re uvenating cffect of the shingle. Some sayv that the increased circulation of it about the scalp has something to do with it Increased iction causes clectrical currents that o beneath the sealp and make the duy woman gay and the morose woman ierry is a to a » of the vears is that he saw It o Seeing Right Side U THI lenses of the eve the retina an inver; objects regarded. and often asked. “Why right side up when wrong side up It occurred to one investigator te try the effect of preventing the inver \ of images on the retina was accomplished by means of an op- t instrument that exciuded from th Al lizht except thal whic passed through the instrument i The instrument was adjusted t eves at 3 o'clock one afternoon Was not removed (except at when the eves were bandazed) until noon the next day. At t. to the person whose eyes were thus treated everything seemed topsy-turvy and illusory. and the mind instinctively tried to imaging objects to be in the position In which they ordinarily ap- After a time, however, the feel- inz of the unreality of what was seen passed away, and the person experi- mented on even bezan to imagine evervthing that lay outside his field of vision to be arranzed in the same way what he This goes (o show that habit and experience coun teract the effect of the inversion of images in the eyes Things [hree Tricky Stunts I went to a stunt party at Jack's the other day and he fooled his whole anz with a bunch of awfully smart tricks. They looked hard and myste- rious as could be, but after everybody left he showed me how easy they were to work. He's a smart kid, all right, because while he was performing these tricks he kept talking to us all the time, tr: ing to keep us from watching him too carefully. And he’s so awfully funny that the first thing we knew he had pulled a trick, and we hadn't any idea at all how he had done it Stunt No. 1. He zave us all a great big lette “7." creased like the illustration, and E 7z PUZZIE p. roduce :d image of the question 1s on their images are If and night, a This shows how the cardboard | Piece- are put together to make the ‘Z. “GRAVITY, DEFIED _ SPOOIL S — This illustration will explain how the spool stunt is worked. told us o cut up the five pieces, shuf- «fle them around and then try to put them together again. Say. boy, that's some job! Looks perfectly simple to cut a piece of cardboard into five pieces and put them together into a but just try and do it! Stunt No. I1. “Then he took an ordinary spool that mother had used all the thread and performed a magic trick. told me that he took a small his from He calling card and stuck a pin through | it and put the pin in the hole through the spool. Then he turned the spool upside down gently, as it is in the il- Justration, and held the card in place. He pronounced several magic words agd started blowing in the spool, still holding the card. Then he removed his hand and blew some more, but the card stuck in place, and we were all do things appear | This | el | | | | e RHINESTONE BAND FASTENED WITH RUBY. THE RING AND NFCKLACE MATCH. learnedly on the which the themselves to be a re discourse complex from men have rid | Meantim ihers seems newed inmcrest in elaborate head dresses which conceivahly might cause more confusion than the humble hairpin and might weigh more heavily on the head than long tresses. This Spring there have been several headdress balls 2broad. A Russian princess, Stephanie Dolgorouski. gave such a party recently in London. The Russian princess, we are told, wore a Kokoshnik that had iong been in her tamily. It was richly jeweled and looked very barbaric. Every one knew that it was the real thing in Russian headdresses. ‘There was the usual awarding of prizes to the women who in (he estimation of the judges wore the most original and attractive head dresses AU Monte Carlo and other resc |thix Spring women of leisure and weal'h have amused themselves wear ing fanciful and interesting head dress. Persia, India. ancient Ezvpi. China Venice of the Renaissance period have all been favorite sources for the charming headdresses women have worn. One of Persian inspira tion was of white lace, fitting closely about the brow and under the chin like a nun's wimple. It was decorated with silver nail heads and pearls. Al most alwayvs these gorgeous head dresses display imitation pearls. which | are still in high favor. | Many of the new headdresses of a | simpler nature take the form of ban | deaux—but bandeaux different from those to which we have become accus tomed They are usually richly jew | eled, fitting across the brow and at | tached with narrow strands around the back of the neck. Sometimes there are jeweled strands hanging down at |the sides taking the place of enormous | heavy earrings. Sometimes the band consists of two fine strands of jewels that are fastened around curling halr. | | one well over the brow and one some. | | what further back. Then there are | the ornaments that consist of a wide chologists hairpin shingled w Which Are to Work on Friends. | made it | pressea linto act tha It was and vacuum Try it some Stunt No. IIL Jack had some dandy refreshments | that his mother and big sister made | for us, and after we had finished eat- | ing and were still sitting around the | table, Jack told us he had another trick for us to guess. He took a dime and put it into a napkin ring which was standing up. Then he put a nap- | kin over it, announcing that when he | picked up’the ring the dime would | | have disappeared. And it had | This is how he worked it: He pasted a piece of tablecloth over one end of | the napkin ring and trimmed it very | | carefully around the edges, like the illustration. so you couldn’t tell what | had been done.” Then he placed the | ring, covered side down, so that when | he slipped the dime into it, it was | caught instead of slipping through onto the table cover. Try these tricks en your gang.and tell me what success you have. And if you know any good tricks that you'd like me to print in this column write me about them, and TNl tell them to all the boys and girls that | read this paper. —CAF do a the com- | which got time. { e Your Name. Does your name begin with Maybe you'll find it in the list helow Every one’s name has some meaning, for that is how names came to be. | Some word which stood for some spe- | cial quality came to be applied to a particular persen and perhaps that name was given to his son or daugh- | ter, and when it was passed on like t and came into common use | people forgot its original meaning and it became merely a name. Meaning Little Enchanter Bold winner, friend A stranger A warlike son gly ing: mak- happy Shining_bright Fair Long Blessed Bringing victory Firm, strong hearted Bold as a bear Bright: famous Fair; bright Married Fair, white Shining bright Clear-eved Name Babetta Baldwin Teutonic | Latin } Hebrew | Greek Barbara Bartholomew Basil ! Beatrice Latin English French Hebrew Latin Greek | Belinda Belle Benjamin Benedict Berenice Bernadina Italian Teutonic Teutonic Teutonic Hebrew French | Celtic Boglish | o { Bernard Bertha Bertram Beulah Blanche Bridget Byron Favorite Targets. AK trees are favorite targets for lightning. because their deep roots furnigh a better ground than the | {roots of other trees. They also grow | |best in soil which is a good con- ductor of electricity. Many Kinds of Stamps. OSTAGE stamp collectors will have to accumulate 63,000 differ- ent varieties to make their lists com- plete, according to late estimates. Within the last two years about 4,000 r jeweled band or plaque that covers the hair just above the nape of the neck. The popular motion-picture star nowadays seems to have much to do with at least young to the directing in America. high school take careful of hair fashions, The idea of the girl seems (o be note of the way her screen idol does her hair and then to do | hatr | resemblance to | may have naticed any pers with hair parted st Gloria Swanson. | WHA hers likewis or hex . whether or not her face have the remotest the star. Thus vou number of flap- the side a la And to some of them < very hecoming. 4 P TEVER you may think of the sent mode of hairdressing. it pr | certainly does seem inaccurate to say that shorn locks tend to make women look #like. VARIOUS BOBBED AND UNBOBBED COIFFURES. BOBBED HAIR SHOWING of There are as many differ ARS PUZZLE NO. 1. Across. Rreathed convulsively. Put . Ceremony. Against. . Uncommon A Hebrew month. 3irl's name. ‘hild’s bedstead. Green (heraldry). Dispatched. Container for a beverage. Feminine personal name. Greek letter. Live coal. Diphthong. Old clothes peddier. . Preposition. . Royal Marines (abbr.). Stamps (Prov.). Behold! . Farewell. Note of diatonic scale. Appearing as if gnawed. Burns with a_hot fluid. Prefix meaning half. Upright which supports a sail. . Western Indian: . In addition to. On the lee gide. Part. Food (slang). Close to. To snare. Meeting places. Turn in the Alarm. Editor (to assistant)—Gee, you have a lot of bum jokes in this issue. Humorous Assistant—Oh, 1 don know. . Cutlass-like Mixture of sand and stone. Assistant Heavenly body. Saucy Ball. . Musical instrument. . Parts of curved lines. Worry, . Treland. . One who owes money. Denial. . Initial of the Rough Rider. . City of Asia Minor. Kind of cat. To belabor Parts of a verb. Unit of length. Prefix meaning half. weapon (Philippine Islands). . Man’s name. . Preposition. A month (abbr. To make certain. Goes in. . To move on all fours. A form of the verb do. inglish school. Fuse. River of Bohemia. Numerous. . Malt beverages. Resting place. Note of scale. . Thoroughfare (abbr.). Filed. “Did you have a good time at the tist's?"” HAIR PARTED AT THE SIDE A LA GLORIA SWANSON. HAIR BRUSHED BA Interest to Younger ent sorts of shingled and hobbed heads | tight little knot |as there are ways of arranging 1ong | neck hair at the present time. Curls are | o making strong appeal to many of the | = Bangs are short-haired girls and women. Quite | startling Is the effect of hair brushed forward into coy little curls while the ears are left perfectly bare. it gives| the effect of & woodiand satyr—but it | is considered very smart by the debu- | tantes who affect it | Some women eschew all hair | mentation, feeling that a greater effect of smartness can be gained by sleeklv brushed locks thai are un broken in line from brow to nape of neck. If you have a well shaped | head —neither very small nor very | large—with a fairly low brow. and if your hair is straight and dark. then you may find this mode of hair ar rangement excellent. 1t is not par-| ticularly well suited to the blonde. If the hair is long, then it is held in a at the hetter The rather closely cut head // G %ocbou < 0, v ’ YooV SMALL KNOT AND FLOWER. AND LARGE KNOT ON NECK. PUZZLE Across. Down. A healing wash. Before. Inclose tightly. Conjunction 5. Tmposing. . Shipload. . Exists. . Valley. . Period of time. end back into custedy. . Sticks. Hotel. . Next. Destroys. . Perfume from flowers. 1. Injury. 6. A partly burned coal, 11. Metalliferous rock. 12. Rosters, 13. BExist. 13. Lacerate. 15. Strike noisily. 16. Arrange in order. 19. Correct. 21. Glandlike. 23. Inside of. 24. Eleven hundredths (approx.). 25. Elegant. 26. A number. 27. Personal pronoun. 28, Hoodwink. 30. Deserves. 32. Like. 33. Devotion to fact. 36. Means of travel (abbr.), 38. Used w 40. Be brilliant. | 42. Shrink from (colloq.). ! 44, Kind of fish. | 45. Pierced with a tusk. | 47. Fish eggs. | Explanation. | | | | . To bargain. Fermented drink. Quenches. . Protective covering. Nearer the cente: . Caffeine-bearing nut. . Oxidize rapidly Sheltered side. Incline the head. Proceed. 46. Perform. 45, 49. Supply of ammunitions Getting Even. Different. “But we were only 15 minutes get- | ting here!” objected the passenger. ‘““The meter says we've come 20 miles; come along with the cash,” vou do so. snarled the taxi driver. 52 | to deposit? “‘All right,” assented the passenger. | paying the fare, “but you get ready | count, if you please. the nape of the bang following a straight selection for | brows is smart, but the woman with a low hrow or with | needs hair that grows high on the forehead with a|the same line and this cannot LoooYy Lady—I wish to open a_ bank ac- Banker—We shall be glad to have ‘What amount do. you wish Lady—Oh, but I mean a charge ac- |the forehead a little above the eve it is one that | constant ' attention since the {bang must be kept alwave at about be at u‘) %) PEARL CAP WORN OVER HAIR PARTED IN THE MIDDLE. tended to by a non-professional. Then there ix the curled bang—sujtable for the girl with naturally wavy hair or the girl who has invested in a “per manent.” This. of course. does not need quite such frequent trimming Poets have sung the praises of the fair, high forehead, and novelisis every now and then are inclined to dexcribe all their heroines as possess ing fine high foreheads. leaving the low foreheads only for the intriguers and villainesses Lut the woman forehead know charming in poetry and fction to the distinction of a distinguished Jooking man. but few women's faces are improved by deep creases or seams in the forehead. In this country, where the sun shines so ardently for %0 many days of the year, it is hard 10 retain the serene brow that beauty requires. Blue goggles may help ‘to keep away the wrinkles, but blue gog- ex are almost as trying as wrinkles. So it is rather a relief to know that the bang is no longer an eccentricity of fashion. While not as ubiqiitous as It was in the Mays when Barrie wrote “Sentimental Tommy™ and Du Maurier wrote “Trilby.” it not at all unusual efther with bobbed or long hair. and it relleves the heizhi of the too lofty forehead and hides wrinkles whether they be caused by thought, worry or just teo much sunlight * xox x women it something of a hardship to have to wear hair of the same color vear after vear. with no chance of the color changing save as it becomes gray and graver and finally white. There is something rather exhilarating in hav ing the hair auburn one season, blond at another time, rich brown and then | black. Tt would be rather diverting, wouldn't it. to be a blonde after hav ing spent years as a brunette or to find vourself a rich brunette after having heen cinder blonde most of a lifetime? Just at present, apparently, fashion favors the brunetie. At least there is | little disposition on the part of fash Jle women to dve their hair blond with the very that it is not always real life as it is in Wrinkles may add high TO some seems 1o be line across or anburn, bhut they say—in dyve it brown The | reason ziven for this is that the (fuchsia and cyclamen shades that 2re | atin so popular are becoming onlr to the brunette—the pale {8kinned brunette | v way ¢ variecy | parted bang and tr | with hair parted in { brushed forward » long as there are bhobbed-haired there will be women whose is growing out again. Some women really do miss their old-fash ioned long locks. and some long fo chang-, Besides., having on time hohbed hair growing again gives an interesting topic conver sation. And so it happens that there is a third group of women who must ronsidered by the hairdressers Besides the bobbed and the long-haired there are those with growing locks who require quite a different type of hairdressing from either of the other two types. Interestingly ough, some | of the wayvs of taking care of these | awkward locks have proved attractive that some women continue to have their hair kept at the awk- ward half-grown stage. If the hair soft and light in welght, it is often possible 1o roll it simply 81 the back. If vou have kept vour original long hair when it was first eut. this may he made into a little braid which can he pinned across the hack of the head 1o cover the wispy knob the half grown hair quite a tendeney - so there bang the the combined back is 19950 Slamming the Door. HY is it that a door. opened nearly to the limit, will | where there is a draft or through the opening? Certainly the | wind does not get behind the door and shove it, for the draft is throuzh the opening The explanation lies in a funda mental principle of moving fAuids i the same principle thai | base ball curve. Whenever there is 2 current in the air the sidewise pres ure is least in that current, so when he wind blows through the opening 10 a door the pressure on thai side of the door ix decreased. and consequer ¥ the pressure on the other side | starts slowly to move the door, 1 ing it go faster. till the door |into the draft itself. When this. of course, the draft | along | When a ball is rotated in the air it carries around with it a good deal of air “sticking” 1o the sides. This., then is the same thing saying t A current of air iz flowing around ball in the direction of rotation. Now if & wind blows against that ball it is easy to see that the little rotating | current will be with the wind on one side and against it on the other on one side the velocity the air will be increased and on ihe othe | diminished. The greater pressure or the slow side then shoves the hail against the low pressure on the fasi side.” Now, throwing a ball in the ai is the same as making a wind blo | against it if a ball be thrown and rotated at the same time, it w necessarily curve. close wind makes swings it dae. helps the Mined by the Ocean N the beach of Buckhaven land, the sea piles up coal some iwo or three feet thick. From the town come men, women and children with buckets, boxes, bags and wheel barrows to get the family supply. The | coal is actually mined by the sea | Ground swells break away the seam: outcropping in the Firth of Forth an slowly carry the treasure to the shor | In stormy weather the product grea: Iy increases, | How Parrots Are Caught. [0 capture parrots the natives « Brazil watch the meeting places and when the fledgings are a few days old the feathers of one of the wings are trimmed. Later these birds are easily captured, placed on perches land taken to the nearest village. Readers Riddles From Readers. §13. What word represents the oc cupation of a human being with one hundred letters’—Rosemary Weiss 614. What bird can carry the heav iest weight?—Margaret Naton. 615. If vou and I ate a jaybird | would our telephone number Helen Pferrer. | 616. Why is a sedan chair like the | world?—Dorothea Hopkins. 617. How does a nervous \.Iq.mnare with an aeroplane” ietz. | 7618, Who is the biggest—Mr. Bigzey or Mr. Bigger's baby?—Garnet Hut ker 619. What coat will never wear out? ames G. 20. What strenzth ever E. Hale. 621. What never spelled ciocchi what person Walter feat of Irs, Carl is the greatest performed ?—) word of five letters is right>—Thomas Mas What kind of table can be eat farion Tom. 623. What is the lightest city in the world?>—Ellagene Tennant. 624. What is a man that rides around in a taxicab?—A little girl. 625. When is a wall like a fish? 626. What should a clergyman preach about?—James Banaghan. 627. What tradesmen are always robbing themselves”—Ruth Kelly. 628. What would Neptune say if the sea_dried up?’—Esther Broad. 629. Why is a handkerchief like a ship at_sea?—Antonio Guthrie. 630. What flower reminds vou of | Winter?—Bertha M. Rineer. 631. When is a hired man like a | sun?—Wilna Gene Pickett. 632. Why is a fly taller than most men?—Edna Boylan. 633. What goes with a reader. 634. What | North Pole | stenzel. 635. How can you make a coat of a suit last?—Genevieve Bramwell. 636. Why is a man like a diamond in the rough?—Melvina Nave. $37. How did a man run a splinter | in his mouth?—Margaret Harmeling. | 6§13, postman: 614, the crane: 615, | 281.J; 616, because it's between | poles: 617, they're both usually up in { the air; 618, Mr. Bigger's baby, be- cauge he's a_little Bigger; 619, your | skin; 620, Wheeling, W. Va. 621, | wrong; 622, vegetable; 623, cork; 624, |a passenger; 625, when it is scaled; 626, about an hour; 627, butchers, be- cause they are always stealing (steel- ing) their own knives and other too 628, “1 haven't a notion (an ocean); en wagon?—A great remind virtue does the Answer to Yesterday's Puzzle. e v] i E | PIOIN|T =y AR A us of 7—Sophie | twa, | 629, because it gets many hard hlows | 630, snowball: 631. when he is fired: $32. because he stands over six feet without shoes or stockings; 633, noise 634, just-ice. that's all: 635, by makinz the trousers first: 636, because he set in his ways; 637, he was eatinz a club sandwich. is Strong Arm Magic Stunt. This is a magic trick which stronz men in many of the old-time circuses used to use. They would hitch a team of horses to each of their hands and | the horses would then be held in check {by the man—they couldn’t pull him 1 What really happened was that the | | | | | | horses | other. were pulling against each You can work the same trick by getting several stout pieces of rope and letting some of your friends try to pull you apart. Three pieces of {rope are needed—one long piece which | goes up the sleeves and across the | back (shown in Fig 2 and Fig. 3) and two short pieces which are given to the fellows -to pull on and which are, to all appearances, gripped in the per former’s hands. The two short pieces { have rings on them which hitch on the hooks of the hidden long piecd of Tope. This makes a good stunt to try among your gang. but vou must pre- pare for it ahead of time. : -CAP'N ZYB Left-Handedness. | MIBN lead” women in the toward left-handedness ord- ing to Prof. June E. Downev of the University of Wyoming. who recently completed examination of 400 men and women. She found that those who. could use eithar hand with equal ease were generally of superior intelligence. It was also discovered that, while fewer women were left-handed, there were also fewer women who were strongly right-handed; that people who place the left thumb over the right when folding the hands are inclined toward left-handedness, and that, for many individuals, the distinction be- tween left and right is not nearly so well developed as that between up and down. In fact, many people have to tendency 1 put a bunch of them in th.‘*de v " rard stuck there as if new stamps have been issued by the st stove and the fire just roared. - to come with me for driving 30 miies | it were gined. Want tn know what various governments. rely upon some. special mark to dif- an hour. I'm a speed cop.’ count such as [ have at the dry goods stores. ferentiate their hands. ‘Naw, T was bored to tears.”