The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-02
WHICH PROVISIONING.
BY Miss Cora E. CraMfnrf.
Copyright, 1921, by Wheeler Syn
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Bob was hot and restless. He
had read every bit of the news. He
wished he'd waited for an express
But he had been so impatient to
! get home and see mother again,
and sister Betty, too, for she would
probably be there before him, al
| though he had not heard Just when
| she was expected. Gee. 1t would
would be great to see them! Va
cation, 1t was glorious! Not that
! he didn't like college; that was
! bully, tool 50 many jolly fellows
and such corking good times!
Scholarships, too, and honors to be
| wont
Mother was going to be proud OF
| his first years record.
How lonely he had been last Sep
TENDER, That's where girls had it
all over fellows. Betty had freely
! confessed to a wet pillow every
night for week (Tnis had been
her first year at the Seminary
And he had had to jolly her in hts
answering letter, feeling rather
guilty all the while, however Well,
next year it wouldn't be so bad, he
supposed.
Meanwhile summer was here and
vacation, with all the good times
those three always had together.
Oh, how he wished he were there!
Another whole hour on the poky
old train.
He glanced at the page before
him, section he ordinarily
scorned- advice to the Lovelorn."
Piffle! A discussion of the bobbed
hair fad. A phrase caught his eye.
He read the article Horrors! 1t
was by a man, Did men actually
send in such tommy rot? he won
dered. Bodied hair denoted many
things, it seemed-commonn
cheapness, absence of brains, lack
of intellect, even viciousness. AN
mated dish-mopsI" Hunt Well
some of the cartoons did look like
that!
Bob chuckled.
"A bid for attention, a desire to |
be conspicuous" Well, now, may |
be, but it might not be SO in every |
case
He glanced around the car. There !
were a couple of bobbed heads not |
far distant. One certainly did look
and both girls were surely |
But was it the bobbed |
halr or the cheap, putyour-eye-out !
rigs and the line of talk that chaI- /
lenged the world from rouged- |
tipped, gum-chewing mouths? Now
there was quiet, tidy little
Dobbed head across the aisle a lit
tie farther front He'd like the
writer to see that little lady!
But the writer was not unchal-
enged, he, saw. There was an argu-
nent following A hot little pro
est it wasi Men cut THEIR hair!
Why didn't they let it grow to its
natural length? If short hair is
;ooler and more convenient for |,
men, why shouldn't it be for wo-
men? That was right, too, when
me came to think of it Bob re-
how much trouble Betty
lad with her great mop of lore.
leavy tresses, and how every sum
ner the dread of the dread of the
fterward took away the pleasure, +,
f her swim.
There was another point with
which he agreed, too. "Dish-monso
we're better than rats nests," Bob
canned the car again. The two Y
obbed heads were accompanied nv I
much coiffured one whose natural {
rowth had been preserved.
Gee! Those gosh-awful puffs," s
roaned Bob. Give ME bobbed I
air every time! And she's Just as c
bud as the other two. Suppose L
1ey've contaminated her, thought" Z
nd he grinned.
Then there followed another At
ack. -Bobbed-haired girls wanted =
} attract attention ANY fellow
-ould daro to address an unknown :
she was boobed" :,
Well there might be something a