The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-13
She Strikes The Happy Medium OnBobbedHair

The question of "To Bob of not to Bob" has created so much comment, that discussion of the medium has been received by one of The Age Herald readers. Mrs. Csllie Brown Lollar, of Vernon, Ala.
 The qunestion of "To Bob or not to evidently been over-duly discussed in both public and private gossip, in pul- pit and in press, and yet it remains wonder if the advice that has been given would not have yielded a greater income had it all been given along dif- ferent lines of conduct.
 | 1 am as far from being a writer as l am from being a maker of styles, but since no one has seemed to reach the happy medium to my individual satisfaction, l will go contrary to the first statement of this epistle and add another article to the popular ques- tion, with no other intention than to offer as soothing thought to some mu. | tilated ''bobbed' victim who has been so harrassed and so deeply insulted with such insinuations as there is ale | ways q sensation of doubt lingering around any specimen of humanity who would dare do such thing, that she is half-minded to do something bad for spite
 Before some one gets the idea that I mean to be antagonistic. I will elimis nate the possibility of such by telling you that my hair is not bobbed for reasons best known to myself.
 Nevertheless, at any time, could hide my tresses away in a shoe-box in my wardrobe without feeling the least bit of condemnation, or without cast. ing one lingering look behind, neither would I feel that I had disgraced the style.
 In nfy opinion there is only one seri. ous thought to take before you make your leap: If you feel that you are forbidden by your Holy writ to part with your ''crowning glory" then you bury the finest of all virtues when you do it. Otherwise, it is every woman's happy privilege to use her own indie vidual taste in the mater of how she wears her hair.
 1 think we are on very uncertain ground when we are gambling on how long the present style will last or what the future style of coiffeur will be. 5ss l have an idea that it will be chang ing as time goes on, but also feel reas sonably sure that women will be able to handle the problem of keeping up with the style without doing serious damage to civilization. When the virtue and intelligence of my sex is being assailed by a few would-be extremists, find it hard for me to say nothing in self-defense, even in as frivolous a matter as this.
 When they say it is only the orisis nal the genuine, the real woman who l can withstand the test of time they place a very low estimate oi the virtue of our mothers as we'll as on ourselves. They seem to overlook the more serious fact that only a decade or so ago the women wore dresses with necks, sleeves, and even skirts; they also wore plenty of such to be both comforts Nfe and decent. Such things seem to saA. s-@ longer style, but discard.
 l do not think the women of today are any less genuine than they were | in the days of quilted bonnets, and hoopskirts; of ruffles and trails, braids | and rats, and other things too numers think of. Now styles and comfort are synomonous terms, and the idea that bobbed hair is more comfortable than | the big puffs and rats that made our heads look like Japanese umbrellas | is not a flimsy one. It is a fact that 1 women will no longer worry in personal attire, any more than they stand for | toll in housework.
 | On the other hand, it is only .ss conservative, non-prejudiced youXg woman who will generously acknowl- | edge the correctness of a style if she hapepned not to be one of the origina- tors of same, and especially if she has been outspoken in her opposition. We sometimes have to shake the moss from our backs before we can see that the thing is not necessarily wrong just l because we were not in harmony with style leaders in the beginning.
 The idea of bobbed haid may have burned our pride at it's advent into sos. ciety, but now the fright has subss sided, and we see there is nothing ridiculous nor indecent about it. So let us not wound the conscience of anyone who wishes to thus satisfy a longing curosity or give vent to a glowing womanly pride
 Rejoice from the facte that your bObbed headed, low-necked, chiffon-be- decked photos can furnish no more amusement for our posterity than those of our grand-mothers whose skirts would defy ample space to pass through our doors, and those of our grandfathers with their four teen-inch beard, the very sight of which would frighten our children into spasms.
 So, daughters, sisters. mothers, grandmothers, and great grandmothers, let your sorrow be turned into rejoic- ing. for bobbed hair does not hint at your virtue, your religion, nor your age, and should you decide to kiss your tresses farewell, do so in good faith believing that when the style demands it, mother nature will kindly restore to your shorn heads the crowning glory. and that the new style when it comes will be no less comfortable and no more