Evening star., 1924-11-26

Women's hair. since the bobbing
,ra. has been such a topic of con-
versation that 1t seems to me the
time has come to devote our atten-
ton for while to the subject of
mems hirsute adornment.
There was an age when men spent
more time on, their hair. what with
wigs and powdering, than the wom-
en-, II such a thing were possible.
Today, as the result of it, we have
some very curious ways of regarding
long and short hair on men. If you
wear your hair moderately long,
some kind friend is sure to protest.
II you have II out very short, an
other bosom companion will cry out;
Well. whatcha trying to do-look
like q convict?"
Long or short. there is no pleasing
them-so the wise man let's his hair
grow to suit himself.
Bob La Toilette lost thousands of
votes in the recent election because
Of those long locks of his. We have
become so used to associating long
hair with men of artistic or radical
tendencies that a long-haired candi-
date cannot win.
Every one of our Presidents of
recent years has been a moderately
haired man, with hair of the exact
length and luxuriance to please the
rank and file of the country.
This is a curious thing. There is
r certain length. right down to the
eighth of an inch, that is acceptable
to the critics. Let the unwary gen
tleman allow his hair to grow that
extra eighth, eight acquaintance
Will note it within eight minutes.
Il X 4
A look back into history shows that
~ hai - a
head always has interested mankind
The head has ever been consid-
cred the noblest member of man, con-
tanning the brain which controls his
actions" says the Encyclopedia
Americana.
Hence the adornment of the head
is q function dating from prehistoric
times and reaching still to the least
civilized aborigines of every country.
There you have the reason for this
interest in two paragraphs, contain
ing two errors too. One may well
question whether the brain really con-
trolls the actions OF men. 1t ought to.
undoubtedly. and in some highly civil
lized beings does so, TO great ex-
tent, but the mass OF US are more
controlled by our desires and our
emotions than we are by what brains
we may possess.
There is intelligence in every cell
OF the body. so that the brain pre-
sides only as manager Of them. The
idea that the rest of us is mere in
ert matter is no longer tenable.
When the Will in the small intestine.
for instance, feel the impact of a
swallowed pin, these small slender
vascular processes will take that PIN
and carefully turn il around so that
the blunt head is forward, the fine
point backward.
One may seriously question, too,
that statement about the adornment
of the head being a function reaching
still to the least civilized aborigines
of every country"
From the looks OF barber shops.
beauty parlors, millinery shops and
haberdasher's windows II would seem
that the adornment of tie human
head is a function reaching to the
most civilized beings of every coun-
try.
You will never get man who has
gone on a millinery expedition with
his wife TO garee that only aborigines
are interested in this matter.
In the beginning men wore long
hair and flowing boards. The early
history of the Jews shows them a
much haired race. Later they began
to look upon long hair as a sign of
effeminacy. This probably arose by
reason of the long hair of the women,
the men wishing to look as much un-
like the ladies as possible.
Yet the heroic men of Sparta wore