The nature that biologists and anthropologists and other learned scientists know takes an eon or two to dispose of unnecessary adjuncts such as fails or superniimerary toes, but feminine nature works far more rapidly. Note the disappearing and reappearing ear and marvel on the adaptiveness of woman.
In idle nivod one day an artist remarked upon the curious excrescence of the external ear, an extra bit og pink flesh aesthetically inexcusable. That same ear heard, and burned and hid itself beneath a sheltering thicket of hair. What ig move, sooner or later, all other feminine ears concealed themselves in like fashion, leaving the artist, who of course was a man, isolated with his fellow-masculines in conspicuous earishness, For many years. the maligned var, the female ear that is, has kept in seclusion, refusing to be lured outside by the oft recurring rumour that ater all ears were to be worn this season. The pronouncement that it is coming back into the guy life of the world seems much more authentic at this moment and we suspect that the artist who so stupidly condemned his sex to bear the burden of ears has retracted his error and succeeded in persuading his original hearer to restore the banished member.
At all events. the English hairdressers are displaying at least the lobe of the car. This may be because of the concerted effort tag) higher on the thead. Again it raise the dressing of the hair
may be due to the ear-ring, which not unnaturally demands some' visible means of support, since its effect is lost without at least a suggestion of an ear. Time has gone by, however, for us all to coif our head uniformly, and the hairdresser who recognizes temperament in the arrangement of the hair is sure of enthusiastic patronage.
Bobbed hair itself may well have been a revolt against the stereotyped manner of wearing the hair and the recept hats have certainly encouraged simple hairdressing. The smaller amount of hair one had the more fortunate one might regard oneself in the recent modes, and any additional ("false" is such a horrid word) hair was entirely out of the question. Now, however, a higher style of coiffure is coming back
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