Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
HEAR COLLEGE
BOYS ON STYLE
They Like a Girl to Look
Nice; But Bobbed Hair?
Never


York University, Columbia and the
College of the City of New York
were canvassed by a reporter for
The World yesterday to get a mas
culine slant" on the veXed problem
of women's dress.
st change with the seasons on
this dress question" was the frank
admission of Francis Edwards Far
agoh, editor of Mercury and Micro
cosm, publications of the College
of the City of New York. How am
to know what to-morrow's blonde
will wear?
"The so-called French heels, it
seems to me( ought to be abolished.
The skirt? L prefer them wide. Let
my dancing be unconfned. The
waist line should be narrow. My
ideal girl is slender at the belt area.
Besides, not all of us are blessed
with long arms.
"The neck should be exposed. 1t
is bad enough for us men to wear
starched smokestaclls. Why burden
our dear sisters with stiff necks? 1t
is sufficiently sad IL we get still
necks turning after them"
Sylvester j. Shalvcy, Vice-presi-
dent of the Newman Club and all
around society man OF City College,
considered the matter more seri-
ously.
'I do not think that the girl who
ruins her feet and her health with
injurious clothing is playing u man
quite square" he said. Il am
against bobbcd hair because it looks
SO masculine, and 7 am against
very short skirts and very thin
waists. I might not criticise them in
a girl I meet, but L wouldn't want
my sister to wear them
The group from Columbia Uni
versity insisted on being represent
ed by John e. Smith, of Salt Lake
City. Smith is a member of the
senior class and an aspirant for
author of the Variety show. lie ad-
mitted that he was optimistic re-
garding the modes.
"If we followed the suggestions of
the various purity organizations as
each new fad appeared" he said,
men would be wearing binders,
and their offending sisters, sack
cloth. A womanly woman can al
ways be trusted to wear what is be-
coming to her. The peek-a-boo
waist is all right as long as it keeps
within the bounds of the peek and
avoids the naughty boo"
Lawrence Fertig, graduate stu
dent of New York University and
winner of last years Sandman
Grafton contest, was strong in his
expression of the common disgust
which all men interviewed seemed
TO hold for "bobbed" hair.
ut seems as if more crimes are
committed to-day in the name of
art than have ever been perpetrat-
ed in the name of religion he said.
And did you ever notice that short
hair usually accompanies shorter
intellect?"
Donald Brown, president of the
newly Roosevelt Club
was even more outspoken.
This futuristic, bobbed-hair style
is by all odds the ugliest thing 1
ever saw" he said.
Theodore p. Bromley, president
of the senior class, thinks that
good complexion should be attained
at whatever cost.
Jack j. Weinheimer, captain of
the football team, complained that
the costumes of American girls
seemed to him artificial after the
simplicity of the girls in France and
Italy.
Arthur Schwartz, editor of the
New Ofkcf, the weekly OIL new
York University, said:
Life would be pretty dull if man
were deprived of his enjoyment of
the fair seX's pranks in dress. No
young fellow would like to see every
woman in the country with bobbed
hair, loose waist and fat-footed
shoes. Science seems to dictate
moderation in dress, but modera-
tion does not exclude bit of COM
pleXion cream, dash of powder, or
on inch heel.
That does not mean that think
ing college men do not admire in
telligent women. 1t is possible to
preserve the charm and appeal and
at the same time to cultivate the
mind. Tho most sensible type of
woman seems to me the college
woman of to-day"