The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
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By JULIA HOYT

4 A N argument to my mind in favor LA of the bob is that it obviates hair arrangement. Except for the cut
 tns, cne's hair needs only to be brushed
 and smoothed into place, with an occa- slonal marcel if one has it marcelIed.
 Few women are clever at arranging their own hair. The bob, having done away with the clumsily wrought knot in exactly the wrong place, the many strange and unmeaning puffs dotted
 around the head and the untidy strands or hair struggling down the neck, has to my mind improved the appearance of the head of the average woman.
 To return to the question of the ac- tual hair cut, there are three things to De considered-first and foremost the shape of your head; and second the tex tqre or quality of your hair; third, and wnether you are going to wear it straight or marcelled. How you shall wear your hair Is decided by the shape of your forehead, the type of your face and the general style you affect.
 The shape of your head affects only the way your hair is cut in back and on top, and not the front arrangement. For instance, if your head has ten dency to be flat in the back the hair should be cut very short at the base of the skull and left little longer at the curve of the head, in that way helping to give a rounded effect. In addition. it should probably be waved to prevent its lying too close to the head. haven't the space or the inag- nation to take up all the problems offered by different heads, but a good rule to follow is to press your hair as close to your head as possible and study It we'll, remembering that the thing to be desired is a small and as nearly round head as possible.
 If you want into the famous Antoine's salon m Paris you would see him studying one woman after another: first the shape of the head, then trying different front and side arrangements. studying all the time their profileS, full face, figures, everything which indi- cates their type. His respect for the great beauty of thick hair is so little that If he sees that it's thickness in some spots is hiding well-shaped head he will cold -bloodedly thin it out until It seems as if he was removing all the hair. Naturally he only does this with a we'll shaped head and in cases where It is necessary. Also it is dangerous unless done by the hand of an expert.
 I am told that many women in Paris are beginning again to show their ears. Some years ago there were all sorts of rumors about famous beauty, Clio de Meredei that she had been born with out ears, that they were deformed, etc. all because she was the first woman of that period to cover her ears. Now we speak of showing them as an extra ordinary and revolutionary fashion. Ears that are little and well shaped and pink (of course a little rouge can accomplish the latter requirement), are charming. but in general I can not see that they are much of a help to a weman's looks. However, it may be entirely a question of eye training and we may all grow to admire them hugely If the custom of showing them really returns. For some reasons I rather doubt it, for in my opinion showing the ears demands that one should have an extremely good profile and an unusu- ally good hair line, and even then it is not always becoming. Short hair is unquestionably comfortable and while it is not becoming to all, neither were the different ways of arranging the hair II think it has improved the ap- psarance of the average head and I bAffara the hNb Has oor,a to stav