The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 16, 1902, Page 5

THE SUNDAY CALL SUTFIELD CANCINNATTI . o) IN AVARIETY OF NEW FORMS IT AGAIN HOLDS SWAY [ForoorapHs ®=¢ DaVIS & SANFORD HELEN PRETCOTT ONTARIO 2 ' 4 M IR RS e SRS S ELIZADETH BADGER BROOKLYN . Ye # ot o “THE BEAUTY OF A SILKEN LOCK TURNED LIKE R PERFECT RHYME™ & 2 «» HERE woman's coiffure is con- cerned the curl is still queen. ight of its power seems to have been reached, spite of a season’s reign. In ariety of new forms this little fas- nator bids fair to hold sway over femi- ney end the hearts of the opposite woman add more potently to f her evening dress than wed from the ladies of the this accompaniment There are few types not adorn with gown. which it will The curl seems to adapt itself to the in- diviluality of every owner. It is sweet and girlish for the debutante, and, in an- other form, adds dignity to the matron. It is stately, coy, artistic or conventional, as each case demands. In any form the low coiffure takes ten vears from a woman's age. This is one reason why she will cling to it as long as Dame Fashion wiil at all permit. Then it is undoubtedly true that this form of hairdress is far more becoming to the majority of women than is the hair worn high. A leading artist in this line explains it very simply: “In the low coiffure the hair is drawn back very much as nature intended it should fall. It is reasonable that this should be more beautiful on most women than when the hair is drawn and caught in directions nature never in- tended ‘it should be. It is difficult to fm- prove upon nature.” But it is the tall. stately woman who benefits most from the low coiffure. She, indeed, never entirely forswears fealty to it, even when the high artificlal effects are in vogue. The hair worn low, with an evening gown, hides the defect of a neck which is rather too long as nothing else can do. For the young girl whose neck is still a trifle too slender or undeveloped, the hair gathered in a knot, high on the head, and then falling in a curl or two to the shoulder line, gives the necessary roundness and full effect. Only those whose necks approach perfection of form can afford to despise the beauty giving touch of the curl. For the woman who finds it necessary to add to her apparent inches thé proper effect of height i{s obtained with the low White Ants That Delight in Eating Up Houses or white ant, stands ne for destructiveness. By in- of both the Bast and dies, in fact of anywhere between the tropics, it is considered st plague of those plague- regions. ong ago an English resident of the East Indies returned after an absence of nths to his country house he seashore. On his arrival he found rything in apparently first-class order. Accidentally he struck, with no great of the door posts; a small plece and & hole was made which showed that the inside was hollow. urther investigation showed that the house had been reduced to a mere thell, and that it must fall in the next HE termite, high wind. The Englishman realized that the ruin of his house was the work of the white ants, and knowing the thorough- ness with which they do their work he instantly had the house closed and his neighbors warned. ‘When the house was knocked down, as it was some few days thereafter, it was found that almost all the woodwork ex- cept & thin external crust of the timbers and boards had already been eaten away. The furniture had not been unmolosted, al- though in every case the outward appear- ance of the articles was as though they had not been touched. The termites perforate and eat into wooden buildings, utensils and furniture, and if their progress be not stopped in time they totally destroy them as far as further use i3 concerned. Only metal and glass can escape their ravages. . Their favorite food is wood, and so large & number can congregate at one partlcu- lar spot, and so excellent are their tools, that the destruction of a whole apar! ment, or at least the woodwork of it, is often but the work of a single night. The remarkable feature of these depre- dations is that the insects never attack the outside of the objects which iaey choose to destroy. In the West Indies these insects plerced the foot of a large table, and having in that manner ascended, carried their arch right across it, and then down through * ‘e middle of the opposite foot in the.same manner right Into the floor. Some valu- able papers which were on the table at the time were unmolested. An engineer one night left his trunk on a table, The next morning he found that all his clothes bad been destroyed by the termites; they must have descended upon the house after the trunk had been placed on the table the night before; the papers had been torn into such small pieces that not a bit an inch square could be found. Several lead pencils which were in the trunk had the lead consumed, and some silver coins had on them a number of black specks, which were so corrosive that they could not be rubbed off, even with sand. The nests of these Insects are conical in shape and are generally called hills. They are sometimes as high as twelve feet, which, considering the size of their mak- ers, Is extraordinary. They are composed of clay, and al- though hollow, are so strong that wild bulls often use them as places from which to watch for the approach of possible enemies.—North American. coiffure by waving the hair high about the forehead before drawing it back. It is the endless variety of the front hairdress that makes the low coiffure possible with any type of face. ‘Wave Is Imperative. A wave there always is—that is essen- tial. And it should be a loose, natural wave. Not hard or crimpy. Indeed, from the face to the coil is one immense wave in all the smartest coiffures. But the wave -may flow back smoothly from the face, or, equally correct, may rise to the pro- portions of a pompadour about the face. The newest curl is much shorter and more slender than formerly. That known as the “Janice Meredith,” a heavy bunch of curls falling over the shoulder or far down the back, is decidedly passe. In one of the latest designs the hair is waved back all over the head. that which falls being divided into two long curls. These are now caught up loosely and entwined, 80 as to produce the effect of a bow, with large loops and small ends. The loops are then fastened flat and low down on the head with large shell combs, one comb holding each loop. The short ends form two little curls, which hang daintily from beneath, barely reach- ing below the neck. When the hair is too long to make only the one bow, it is still further entwined and pinned down over the back of the head in the same ribboned effect. The appearance is full and soft and flat. In all the smartest designs now the aim is to make the coll fit low and close to the back of the head, no matter to what height it may be puffed on top. Nothing is more important than that a hard, bunchy look shall be avoided in the colf- fure which is worn with a curl — Phonograph That May Be Heard for Ten Miles PHONOGRAPH that shouts so A loudly that every word can be heard at a distance of ten miles has been tested at Brighton, says the London Mail. You can whisper a sen- tence into the machine's small, funnel- shaped mouthplece, and it will repeat it in tones that are more deafening than the shrieks of a liner’s steam siren. Yet every word is perfectly articulated, and a shorthand writer ten miles away can take down the message as easily as If you were dictating to him in a small room. The machine is the invention of Horace L. Short of Brighton. In appearance it is merely an ordinary phonograph with a large trumpet measuring four feet in length, Inside this trumpet there is a small and delicate piece of mechanism that looks something like a whistle. This Is the tongue of the machine. Instead of the “records’” being taken on wax In the usual manner, a sapphire needle is made to cut the dots representing the sound vibrations on a silver cylinder, and when the needle travels over the metal a sec- ond time the vibrations cause the whistle to produce a serfes of air waves and the machine thus becomes a taling sirem which transforms the human voice into a deafening roar. The experiments were made near the Devil's dyke, Brighton, wkere the inventor has his workshops. The instrument was placed on the roof of the laboratory, and was made to re- peat a number of sentences. At a dis- tance of ten miles the sounds were plain- Iy heard by a large number of people, every word being perfectly distinct, and at a second trial with a favorable wind it was found that an unknown message could be taken down in shorthand at a distance of twelve miles. Over the water the sounds will carry still farther and under favorable circumstances they might easily be heard by persons on a vessel fifteen miles out at sea. Placed on a lighthouse or lightship, the phonograph would give a verbal warning that would be infinitely more effective than the fog- horn and detonators at present in_use. » —_——————— The actor who iIs out of a job always claims he is resting. Probably he is— from the effects of a long wal*