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It is very interesting to notice the difference in the proportion of 

 the hair to the face now compared to what it was ten years ago. In 

 spite of these differences, caused by the prevailing mode, there are 

 some principles which can generally be applied to advantage. It is 

 noticeable that children have the eyes half-way between the chin and the 

 top of the head, while older people, as a rule, have the eyes nearer the 

 top of the head. A middle-aged woman may look much older if her 

 hair is parted in the middle and drawn tight down on each side of her 

 forehead, instead of being fluffed out around the face and arranged in 



Fig. 1. "Like a church steeple on a Fig. 2. A soft pompadour makes a good 



bungalow." frame to the face, and adds height. 



The large woman should wear long sweeping lines that bring out her strength. 



a soft pompadour, which makes the top of her head seem higher, so that 

 the eyes are seemingly placed half-way between the chin and the top 

 joi the head. (Notice the difference between the heads in Figures 1 

 a,nd 2.) Sometimes a short, broad woman of substantial dimensions, 

 tparts her hair and smooths it well down at the sides, and to give her- 

 ^self height, erects a little pointed loiot of hair on top of her head. She 

 <could better gain height by a little pompadour, for this top-knot above 

 :the broad face is as inappropriate as a church steeple on a bungalow. 

 IVho does not remember the young girl who followed the extremes of 

 fashion, and, in the days of the high pompadour, erected such an edifice 

 on top vof her head, that she appeared as a rabbit looking out of a brush 



