The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-26
ARE YOU BOBBING YOUR HAIR
As Some of the Girls Are Doing?
 There's a Reason.

All over the country girls are bob ping their hair, says Thomas s. Mas son.
 A few misguided business men tried to stop them. King Canute had the same idea when he tried to keep back the waves. After all the protests were in and the rules laid down the girls bobbed up serenely.
 You can't keep a good bobbed hair girl down. You might just as well try to stop Niagara Or Bill Bryan. It isn't being done.
 A few baldheaded business men who think they have solved the pro- blem of human nature and who can't believe they can tell the girls what to do. They ought to consider what a great thing it is to have hair enough to be bobbed.
 There are a whole lot of men in , this country who would give a good deal if they could wear their hair bobbed. That is probably why they are jealous of the girls About the only bobbing they can do is to go back to their native villages and bob for perch in the old creek
 We Are All Set
 We hate to change our ideas about women If he had our way the girls would all wear uniforms ana become standardized. At least that is what we fondly think we would do if we had our awy.
 But we really wouldn't, you know. Man is ever unconsciously seeking variety, although he hates to admit it. abouts. They have become set in their ways They all run on schedule. But when the colorful little girls of IT pass by the old fellows sit up and notice much like the rest of us-only more so. After all, variety is the spice of TO as it is of IT, And so what man cannot do for himself, what he says he doesn't want but av7fT for h i'm, The when he thinks he has settled down into a uniform style. To and behold. she bobs her hair or does some other surprising thing that he seems to re- sent but in secret likes quite well.
 The girls have been going on for some time. They cannot yet be in Structed by man in the art of appear ance. A wise man once said that 8 womans glory is in her hair. Per haps now he has another guess com ing
 A Great Dearth of Supermen.
 Do not misunderstood me. feel just like the rest of the hirsute stand-patters. I am not partial to bobbed hair. l was brought up on auburn tresses- As much as reason about it l resent bobbed hair, just as I do the girls smoking cigarettes or doing anything else I think they ought not to do- But still, but still
 You remember the story of Delilah and Samson. She -inveigled him into telling her what his weakness was. Dehlah wasn't up to date Now a girl knows what the weakness of her best fellow is without asking him questions. But Samson gave himself away, just because he didn't know any better (and neither do we, for that matter), and she cut off his hair and robbed him of his strength. Maybe that is why there are now so few supermen among us; not that wish to make the baldheadS feel any worse than they do. Neither Demp- lN-a1 11 h 6n6 one of them got knocked out. Sam sons hair may not have saved him after all; he may have only thought so. That is the way we may feel entertain the delusion that the mere act of bobbing her hair is robbing Ter of her strength. I doubt it. I -rmly believe that any bobbod hair
 T can throw 2oo-pound man
 -ough a window just as well as
 3 of the Sutherland sisters could.
 Passage of Our Old Friend Time.
 It wasn't so long ago that the girls
 ere paying good money for extra eIair. Now it must be a drug on the market They have walked up to the possibility of bobbed hair. They were not like the railroads-asleep at the switch.
 And along with eight million women engaged in industrial occupa- tors and heads of firms and orators in public, and on, has come the boibbed hair. The great movem ent that made the skirt short has attained a higher elevation and reached the hair. Maybe in time it will pass on upward, like a great psychological wave, and skirts will become longer and hair will become longer, and then all of the old fogieS who have become used to the short skirt and the 1bobbed hair of the future will raise their hands in horror.
 The Morality of the Future.
 And we shall begin to read things like this from the wise men of to- morrow:
 'tMy friends. the shameless manner in which the feminine creatures of today, utterly oblivious of all respect for custom, are wearing their hair down to their waists. fills me with a great dread that our civilization is about to pass away But that is not all. It is a matter or common OD- se-vation that young girls scarcely in their teents, are now wearing their skirts so long that they trail in the dust. How much longer is this un- blushing concealment going to be permitted? It strikes at the very foundations of the home. Even strong men among us are beginning to be - affected by this abandoned practice and are wearing their trousers SC long that they take on noticeable fringe with only few days wear How can any misguided woman be come a wife and a mother who wears such impudent long hair and skirts 2
 Must We Have a Moral?
 Have you ever settled yourself down to some nice occupation, ac- cording to a prearranged plan you have devised. and then. just as you