Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-03-12
CUT OFF HAIR
WEARS TROUSER SUIT
RefOFneF Gives Her Views on
Other Women

New York, March I1-Mrs. Alma
Webster Powell, singer. linguist, law
/ yer, social ref0rmer, sufragist and dis
ciple OF the bifurcated skirt, known
now as the trouserette, who recently
gained more publicity by her criticism
Of women's press clubs, has made
another bid for fame This time she
has apparently carried off the prize,
but it was not without the loss of her
I"crowning glory"
Mrs. Powell has cut of her hair
that is, about four feet of it.
Her long black locks are now in the
possession of a union barber, who
clipped the raven tresses." She APP
pears in her summer haircut. And il
is a haircut, a regular mans size clip
|ping, no misses or ladies size"
GOodby to Comb and Brush.
And maybe it won't make a scan
dali" exclaimed Mrs. Powell, in her
home at Brooklyn, to a reporter. But
l don't care, she sang, with a toss ii
her closecropped head.
In place of the tresses that once fell
to her waist has only a cluster u
/ glisJening ringlers. On the left side IS
the faintest suspicion of part, not
made by q comb and brush In fact. the
shorn one said those hyginic ins-ru-
! ments of torture had been placed ii
cold storage. Mrs. Powell now
dresses" her hair by simply passing
her fingers through it and let's it be Il
Iir will.
To prove conclusively to the reporter
that she really had had a haircut, AND
was not wearing a wig, she let him rur
his hand over the ringIers. 1t was q
/ sure-enough, honest-to-g goodness hair
cut. She wouldn't tell the name of Inc
E Iartist who Invested her of her luXur-
liant tesses, because if I did he would
, be swamped by souvenir collectors,
= she explained modestly.
/
q had my hair cut off not to satisfy
f any whim, but for the public good,
says Mrs. Powell. Think OF the yard.
2 OF rats and puffs and other devices
S such action would put into discard
/ adopted by all women, as l hope it vii
S be- No more tousled heads of hair, Il,
more Justified scaIps, no more incon
= veniences when bathing. Think VIVA
+ all that means! And how the gossip
= will wag their tongues and how n.
s knockers will beat their tom-toms
: But what do care?"
e Club women are inspired" she said
/ ITO me they are jokes. On the aver
T age they are sillier than a fourteen
e year-old schoolgirl and have far les
n common sense. They amuse them
N selves with preparing with arduou
u labor a composition that an educate
= woman could write in five minute.
II After delivering it in a trembling voic
It TO a class of women similar to them
n selves they are delighted to hear III
IS plaudits Of the poor, weak-minde
5 things and go into raptures whe
I some one remarks after the applaus
) is over, Perfectly charming, my dear
e Its So amusing. l have often sal
5 those very words and didn't mea
a them Clubwomen, besides, are tn
i meanest class of persons know. The
) are spongers. They accomplish Il
good Women's societies do some goa,
s but these clubs merely take idle We
e men from their homes. amuse ther
= with insipid entertainment, and driy
G their husbands to Coney Island to see
n relief from their talk of dresses an
- other light matters"
:, There is at least one person WIN
, sanctions all Mrs. Powell says an
does even to getting her hair cut, an
e. that is her husband.