The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-11

Shall Hair Be Bobbed? Yes.
But Don't Be a Cockatoo.
Beware All Lady Diarists.
Bad News for lenin.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
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by ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright 1871
Shall girls and women cut their
hair short, bobbing it2 Certainly,
II they want to, and the wise ones
will want to, when they under
stand it.
Long hair was useful and neces-
sary in the cave days. The
mother used the tangled mass to
cover the young baby's head when
she stepped outside to see what
was keeping "him."
The man liked It, something to
take hold Of when the bells
tangled out of tune. Then he got
used to it, liked it, called it femi-
nine, insisted on it. In this busy
day long hair is anachronistic, If
you will excuse q long word at
least as good as "normalcy."
With long hair, all but q few
women wash their heads too
rarely. They must sit for hours
with hair spread out on a towel.
When dry they can't do anything
with 1t. When short they can
wash it every day, excellent for
the head and for clear thinking.
But, ladies', when bobbed, let
your hair be dignified. Merchants
dislike bobbed employees, and no
wonder when the bobbed mass is
frixzled up to look like the top
knot of an angry cockatoo.
Don't frizzle your hair outward
and upward. Curl the ends gently
in toward the nape Of the neck.
Be demure, men will always insist
on that and you must consider
them. While working, wear your
bob in q hair net. Curl your bob
inward and show the shape Of
your intelligent head. Foolish
man win learn that the shape Of
your skull is more important than
long hair, eked out with rats and
false fronts.
Comb back your bobbed hair,
show your forehead, all Of it. That
will keep fools away and attract
wise men. Show your ears also,
they mean much more than your
ankles. Bob your hair, curl it, be
free and happy, and here Is the
bait-look younge:.
Men all wore loEg hair once,
and long, curly wigs later-and
would have shuddered at the
thought Of modern masculine,
short-haired, bald heads. But they
look all right, now that we are
used to them. Imagine President
Harding with curls on his should
ers.
Bad luck seems to follow Chi
cago ladies that keep diaries. Mr..
Kennedy, Los Angeles realtor, met
one and wrote to her: "Can you
hear the wild cries on the deserts
yellow sands?" She heard them
later, while he was being shot to
death, in the conventional manner.
In fact, innocently, no doubt, the
lady held up a lighted match, that,
in the dusk, made 1t possible for
the third angle to shoot straight.
The lady had written ir: her diary,
"He is false to me. Oh, that l
might die tonight" And as usual
he died, ard she added a page or
two to the diary. Before you start
across the deserts yellow sands
with a Chicago lady, always ask,
"Missus, do you keep diary"
That question may save you from
the undertaker's back room.
President Harding tells the
country he will cut nine hundred
million dollars off next years
taxes. 1t is said Government bills
will be less than four thousand
million dollars. That seems cheap,
now, yet not so loEg ago, there
was wild howling about Con-
gress that spent one billion in two
years.
Excess profit taxes are to
come off, and it is necessary,
for they choke enterprise and
shut down employment. No one
has discovered a way of max
ing the biggest incomes pay the
biggest share of governments
burden. To get real money, tax
the little man. He does not
know how to dodge, and if he
is unhappy, that makes no diff
ference to industry or anything
in particular.
Mr.. Lenin, in his speech to
the Third International, is still
hoping for the world revolution.
Everybody tear down every
thing, the feet manage and di-
rect the head, and all be happy.
If Lenin will read the announce
ment of the Ku Klux in Phila-
delphia, he will learn that the
homogeneity of opinion neces-
sary to revolution is lacking
mere.
These Ku Klux are out to
eradicate l. W. W., Sim Fein,
Socialism, in fact, everything
but the good old Star-Spangled
Banner.
While in doubt, consult the
Star-Spangled Banner; when
next in doubt, organize some
thing to quiet those that think
for themselves. Where YOU NAV
pot think for Yourself reyolution