Evening star., 1924-10-05
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| eM;nd fGeorgeto oExer1rD Decora;

T SEE piece in the paper the
other day where the hair dress
crs in Japan has been going to
i the temples to complain to the
gods about the latest American
outrage, the bobbed hair. having in
vaded their country.
Up to a little while ago these hair
dressers, which. presume. they
charged by the hour. had all the
work they could do fixing Jap ladies'
domes up with petrifed puffs, buns,
pompadours, twists and heaves, the
same being held together with fancy
meat skewers, and the job taking
about the same amount of time and
varnish as the repaint job on auto
mobile.
Then l suppose maybe some Jap
fapper committed hari-kari on her
hair as a protest against the en-
peror's edict that cherry blossoms
was to be made into soup with nut
meg instead of cinnamon. as hereto
fore, or some such Jap reason for a
human sacrifice. And right away all
the other Jap fappers says. my dear.
O'Sokem has bobbed it, / think she
looks a lot younger. and now l don't
know whether to bob mine or not:
how do you think l would look with
a chop shingle?
1 presume this got them all start
ed. see. and no wonder the hair
dreSsers has taken to going to
church about it, But l always say,
why worry over these great eco
nomical changes a loss to one class
Of workers always creates trade for
another-think of the Japanese bar
bers!
Well. will admit that the ques-
tion of would ] bob mine is one /
put off until it becomes a universal
subject. But when the birds around
our place commenced singing bob
white. bob-white. why I realized it
was time for even a conservative
woman like l am to take notice or 1
would cease to be conservative and
become merely old-fashioned
Also I thought it was by now safe
to mention the subject to Geo. that's
my husband.
But husband is always the last
one to notice a thing is the fashion
where his wife is concerned, and so
when 1 says. well. believe 1 will
bob my hair. 1 really believe 1 will,
George merely looked at me kind OF
between anger and pity just as II
l had said ] believe in fairies or
believe TIL run out and buy q few
hot Rolls Royces before supper, or
something.
You may believe that he says. but
so do the heathens believe in Idles,
which they worship by hangin
around doing nothing says he. But
the both OF you is wrong. You are
not going to bob your hair, he says.
no wife of mine is going around
looking like a cross between Buster
Brown and a grand piano. which is
the way most OF your friends do he
says. Why they should imagine that
they can take of yrs. by a few
strokes of the scissors is more than
can guess, don't let me catch you
coming into this house with any bob
bed hair. he says, not If you expect
me to remain in it.
WELL, seeing that Geo. didn't seen,
w to care to have me do 1t, why I
thought 1t over a couplA days before
taking any action. 1 was glad of
the excuse to wait, anyways. because
the very minute a woman makes up
her mind to bob her hair, she at the
same time commences looking around
for good reasons for putting off do
ing so.
This is on account, in common with
dropping letter in the mailbox and
spilling milk on the beach. bobbing
hair is practically impossible to take
back. once it is done, so didn't really
mind waiting some more before lead
ing myself like lamb to the shear
ing.
OF course, I knew that il I had
my hair cut Of, why I could always
speak of the day when / used to 1T
on 1t and nobody could prove I va
referring to q switch.
Then. on the other hand, if LEFT