The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 11, 1903, Page 10

T HE POMPRDOUR 15 NOT WY 8 ¥ BN WORKN WITW A 747 EGGY O'NEAL has successfully outrivaled the only, the great, the one Janice Meredith Just why probably will always be & mystery. It so chances that there ere & few things in this world that never can be explained satisfactorily, and one of them is the whys and wherefores of certain heroines of fact and fiction sud- @enly and without the least warning step- ping In and twisting the fashions of the €ay to suit their own sweet wills.. Yet such is unquestionably the case. Three short years ago everything and everybody was gimply overrun with the Janice Meredith craze, and In a measure Mary Mannering was responsible for it No matter how strenuously she may deny it, it is the one and sole ambition of every girl to be beautiful, and when she saw the fetching curl, the nobby boots end the waist & la Janice, she promptly hied herself to the modiste, the shoe- maker and the hairdresser, and, what is more to the point, she got there just as fast as she possibly could. To see is to be convinced, and she knew in her heart of hearts that at last she was on one of the surest and best steps of the ladder of beauty, and the 1dea completely fas- cinated her. The falr Mary simply couldn’t endure Janice and dubbed her “a silly, simper- ing thing.” and If she hed had her way sbout it wouldn't have deluged the coun. try with colonial shoes with red heels, & pointed walst line, the queer little square effect for evening frocks and the immense hoods that our grandmothers and theirs before them used to think so chic. At any rate, Jenice had her day, and no one can deny that her Influence on Dame Fashion was truly marvelous. Whe doesn’'t know about her famous curl? If there be any such don’t for heav- en's sake acknowledge it, for it has been worn the length and brealith of the United States, and, sad as It Is to relate, often by those who were old enough to know better. But the day of Janice is past! She is dead! And now it is: Hurrah! Long live the fascinating Peggy O'Neal! It is one thing to lay down the law for new fashions, but it Is quite another to be brave enough to wear them, whether any one else will or not. The slightest deviation means attention, and it takes a daring girl to successfully stand the closest scrutiny and perhaps adverse crit- fcism. Yet this is exactly what the exquisite Peggy of General Jackson's administra- tion did. Bhe was so secure in her ra- diant beauty that she dared do anything. When the ladles about her gleamed and sparkled with dlamonds she knew that they were not for her, and straightway troubled her pretty head not a little be- fore she finally arrived at the conclusion that a simple string of coral pleased her the best. BShe didn't need nor want lus- ter, for her eyes were like stars, and she had discovered In her early life that sim~ plicity was more becoming and infinitely more bewitching. Bo she tossed her curly hair to the crown of her head and held It in place with an old-fashioned comb. On the side, just where it pleased her ladyship the most, she added a cluster of flowers, and then in a careless mood let one or two long curls fall over her shoulders just as they wanted to. Her hair was distinctly rebellious and she didn't try to train it; in fact, rather gloried in permitting it to TUR away with itself. And, If you did but realise it, that's for all the world just what girls of to-day are doing. Her pompadour, billowy and flufty, was as different from the one worn by the kittenish, coy Janice as day is from night. In the first place it was anything but smooth and It most assuredly was not round. Caught high with a free and easy band, it waved a trifie at the forehead line and was tilted a wee bit forward. At the side and where she fancied it looked the best, she pulled a tiny lock down in a coquettish fashion, and the last lingering remnant of stiffness was taken away and nothing but the delightful I-dare-you-to- fiirt-with-me look left. Such was and such Peggy O'Neal. But so far as that {s concerned there probably wasn't anything on earth, and Dot much beneath It for that matter, that escaped this lovely Peg. At this late day and generation the jewelers are playing the part of tempters by offering three strands of corals finished with & simple gold clasp, and with them they show the simple wreath of flowers, artificlal to be sure, or the studded ferns, both to be ‘WOrn &8 & crown or very low in the neck. Other than this they offer her necklace and bracelet, a simple bit of jewelry, made of broad black velvet ribbens, with here and there an immense dangling tassel or a medallion. But a word of warning to the wise! No girl in the land, unless she s very pretty and winsoms, should dare try the necklace, for it fast- ens at the very top of the ribbon and leaves the lower part of the throat bare. Before buying try it well in the privacy of your own home, where folks are brutally frank, for It seems to have the happy faculty of making a plain girl positively homely, & piquant girl plain and a radiant creature pretty. It's more than disas- trous! Pesgy is the captivating More than likely if the lovely could see the various sorts and conditions of things that have been named for her she would feel like crying aloud to the ‘gods for revenge and gnashing her teeth in a blind fury, Not that she wasn't used THE SUNDAY CALL to the doubtful henor, for that wouldn't bother her in the slightest, but that peo- ple should credit her with such abom- inable taste. She was the personification of all that was dainty and sweet, and some of the latest fads, plain, substantial and unattractive, would have offended her dainty ladyship beyond ail measure. There are no two ways about it. The O'Neal devotees must discard all things stiff or even so much as bordering on that lne, and take up the little high- heeled boots, the flying fluft-fluffs and the thousand and one odds and ends that are always being designed to make wcmen I‘«:Veller. more winsome and more fascina- ng. In the days of her great ularit: Peggy was regarded as a uland;:’ umt,. and of a truth she seems to live up to her reputation astonishingly well even at this far distant time. She took Washington 80 by storm that all things new and novel were straightway christened the “Peggy O'Neal,” and if by any lucky chance it pleased her fastidious highness the ques- N\ tion of its vogue was settled once and for all, Certainly no ona could help faliing fove wilh her own peculiar style of toss- ing up her black curls, and she was clever enough to understand that the fashion which set off her marvelous beauty when she was the despiged daughter of an Inn keeper would suit her betier than all else when she was the petted idol of a great city. Because she won a high gposition by sheer force she was none the less beautiful and her unlimited means only gave her mare of an opportunity to con- vince people that she was the lovellest bit of humanity under the shining sun The girl of to-day who tries to imitate sper should first of all prove to herself that the soft, fluffy baby curls are be- coming to her, and when that questioa is settled forever in her mind there is nothing left to do but toss them lightly n ”Ton it up, mind you. It's aa light as can be, but it is not untidy or stringy. First the great pompadour is put up with a wave over one eye und the stray wisps of hair are aliowed to fly In the breeze as they please. There's nothing stiff about it. The back, for it is a low fash- fon of wearing t halr, you know, is gathered at the nape of the neck and either arranged in tiny puffs or If there 1s enough halr in a figure eight, but it 1s all as smooth as it can be and there isn’t & vestige of a long curl That is an afterthought, as it were, and the curls that are fastened on when the halr is quite dressed are very much more satis- factory and never get out of shape. Two of them, one considerably longer than the other, are tucked cunningly in at the right length and are fastened se- curely with a number of long hairpins, because it would be more than embar- rassing to have them drop off in. the midst of a dance. And then it comes to the flowers—roses, if one likes. Be sure and use plenty of them. Four and even five are not too many, and there should be many leaves. It's far easier and much prettier to use a cluster, for they can be tucked close to the ear and will fit themseives into every nook and cranny and form & be- witching frame for the face. Peggy didn’t use bows. In her lowly Jhm easzs covER THE JOINING OF S JHE CURLS. ed to make the most of h ame her way cer- were plentiful in sunny she made a crown of them v- d a garland the mext wers, flowers. ume to pass that the Pessy of to-day must part with if she would follow In the wake, but she has one immense faction—a compensation In ftseif. They never fall to exhale their subtie fragrance; they're a thing of beauty themselves and they never were known to be other than becoming, fresh and dainty regal beaut ADVERTISEMENTS. DR. CHARLES FLESH FOOD For the Form and Complexion. 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