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among the artifices of his Greek countrywomen two 

 thousand years ago: 



" Snoods, fillets, natron and steel, 



Pumice-stone, band, back-band, 



Back-veil, paint, necklaces, 



Paints for the eyes, soft-garment, hair-net, 



Girdle, shawl, fine purple border, 



Long-robe, tunic, Barathrum, round tunic, 



Ear-pendants, jewelry, ear-rings, 



Mallow-colored, cluster-shaped anklets, 



Buckles, clasps, necklets, 



Fetters, seals, chains, rings, powders, 



Bosses, bands, olisbi, Sardian stones, 



Fans, helicters." * 



We have no such catalogue to offer as suited to our 

 own times. There is but one item on which the female 

 mind seems generally agreed as essential to the adorn- 

 ments of the present day, which is not in some sense 

 tolerable to the fairly balanced masculine judgment. That 

 one thing, I am pained to say, strikes more fatally at 

 female beauty than would be possible for all the " snoods " 

 and " fetters " and " helicters " enumerated by Aristopha- 

 nes. This one thing is "banged hair," a style to be 

 seen in perfection among Eskimos and Australians, and 

 one which contributes materially to impart to the women 

 of those races their characteristic expression of unmiti- 

 gated idiocy, a fashion which ought to disappear from 

 civilized society as fast as nature permits the hair to re- 

 turn to its divinely appointed condition. 



Manly beauty is, even more than womanly, a reflex of 

 the inner adornment. Homer, speaking of the true origi- 

 nal beauty of man says, 



"At first, he was a lion with ample beard." f 

 * Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazomce. t Odyssey, iv, 457. 



