The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-30
Long Hair Soon To Be Relic
 Of Past
By JULIA HOYT

M CERTAINLY begins to look as if
 woman's crowning glory" is soon
 going to be merely q relic of the pnst. | can picture that some fifty or hundred years from now, paintings and photographs of women with long flowing hair, or with complicated and magnificent coiffeurs, will be. exhibited as amusing and interesting curiosities.
 I read in the paper the other day 2 that two thousand women are having their locks shorn away every day. One still hears many arguments for and against this custom. Those who are against it are almost invariably either the older women. who do not feel that they can adopt it, or men. These peo- pie still feel that it is wrong because, first, it's new, and therefore must be wrong; and. second, because they've had "woman's crowning glory is her hair" drummed into them ever since they can remember, and have grown to firmly believe it. a
 Well, speaking for myself, I had an enormous amount of "woman's crown ing glory" and as far asNI can now tell, I'll spend the rest of my life with with me now. well remember tho day, four years ago, that had my hair cut. It was a very hot day. My hat, as usual, was cutting my forehead in two, owing to the large knot of hair at the back of my head, and my head was dripping from heat. I walked into q hair dresser's establishment and said Gut off my hair" I must say that the first snip of the scissors gave me hock,. like a cold bath or taking gas. However, the first moment was the worst. As my head began to feel cooler and lighter, I derived an enormous amount of pleasure from seeing the long pieces of hair fall to the floor.
 I will admit that I was bit scared t9 go home-and with reason, as I soon found. However, I pretended a bravery that | did not feel, and withstood all sorts of bribes from my father in an attempt to induce me to allow my hair to, grow again. I have stayed shorn ever since. .t
 If one were to listen to the remarks of the anti-bobbers one would imagine that a bob means the entire absence of any hair on woman's head. As a mat ter of fact, beautiful hair is just as lovely short as pinned up. One cannot deny that poets can no longer pen verses to a lady's lovely golden or raven tresses flowing to her waist or knees. But anyway, they were privileged in dividuals, and one must think of the masses.
 As q matter of fact, looking at it cold-bloodedly, and not poetically, it was always an acknowledged fact that hair which was very long and thick, while very beautiful when 1t hung loose, was extremely difficult to dress becom- mgly and attractively. I fail to see how anyone can find beauty in an enormous amount of hair piled, curled or twined around the head. But then, I happen to be very partial to the shape of wemen's heads, and know so many women who were forced to ruin the out lines of their finely shaped heads with large wads of hair that, perforce, ruined the shape.
 The quality, texture and color of the hair is not changed because it is short. As matter of fact, believe that much of the charm of very long hair lay in imagining how pretty it would look when loose. Present-day women seem willing to renounce many of their little eoquettish wiles for the sake of com