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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

a devils device and the shameless
effrontery Of lawless unwomanli-
ness!
You can hear the protests here
and there today. The other day, a
school board and a hospital board
threatened to discharge any teacher
or any nurse that bodied her hair.
How hard they fight, how blindly
and fanatically, these mad conserv-
atiyes TO prevent anybody from
changing anything! Everything
sane and healthful and wholesome
has been abused as a vicious novelty,
and everything insane and unclean
and Stacking has been upheld a.
sacred heritage from a glorious
past.
The world may be ooasting down
hill but II Is certainly on the move.
Yesterdays paper announces that
the King Of Spain has declared his
intention to issue q proclamation
soon granting the vote to all I'M
married women over % and all
widows who are heads Of families.
LAST STRONGHOLD
Spain was the last stronghold Of
the grand old conservatism. Civil
marriage is unknown there, divorce
abhorrent and impossible, and wo-
men compelled by law to cover their
sinful hair at least with a mantilla,
and to live in homes whose windows
were barred.
Spain is only a year or two be-
hind Turkey in granting women's
suffrage. Turkey is already a re-
public and Spain may become one
in tho course of time. The torea-
doris are almost the only men in
Europe TO wear long pigtails and
perhaps the women will beat them
to the bob.
II only a thousand other idiotic
superstitions could be as easily
clipped and left on tho barber shop
floor.
Some Of these days common sense
may even 60 so far that the Amerl-
can soldier will be relieved Of the
stiff high collar that chokes and
throttles him. A desperate effort
is being made this year to bring
about a reform and give the soldier
the neck-freedom of the British
soldier and Of the American sailor.
But many such efforts have failed.
Until men conquer the high stiff
collar they should be chary of
ridiculing women for their far less
silly conservatisms.
Perhaps we may live TO see men
at summer dances dressed as SEN
sibly as the bobbed haired women
in low-necked shirts and bare
arms. Then the millennium win be
almost visible on the horizon.
Copyright, 1926, BY the Bell Syn
dictate. Inc.l
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
TAKES FIVE SHIPS.

The woman did not scream or
faint, being modern, but she looked
az IL she would have felt better for
one good zip or comfortable
sWoon.
The ruthless barber dipped his
hand in again, shipped again, and
laid down another switch. 1t took
him five trips TO make the entire
distance across that jungle and
there was a little mountain Of de-
tached glory lying on bis table.
And the woman! A magician
could not have changed her more.
From being a faded homely old soul
with a fine head of hair, she had
suddenly become a parsonage with n
fine head. She looked 20 years
younger and 40 times as intelligent.
From being a weak obsolete passee
matron. she had become a forceful,
up-to-the-minute citizen.
Her elderly friend looked at her
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

smallpox. II would be as outrs-
geous and inconsiderste as for n
woman to come into a house with a
train. The work that women's
trains used to do is now left to the
street-cleaners.
Men gave up long hair and ring
lets first with reluctance. Only
the cheap and nasty people, the
awful roundhcads, and cropheads,
went about in laughable hobs. A
true gentleman in those days had
to wear his hair or his wig in ring
lets 10 his shoulders. Where else
was he TO tie the ribbon that his
sweetheart gave him for a love
knot? But by and by the ringIets
went and all men, except a few
cowboys, revealed the backs Of their
uecks for al the world to see.
The boards followed in due course.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
Woman Soon Be Curiosity Says Rupert Hughes

when full grown, or toupees when
only half grown.
The most remarkable thing about
a wig or a toupee is the extreme
distance at which it is visible. You
can always tell a wig or a toupee
before you can be sure what face,
if any, is beneath il.
When I get me mine, I am going
10 have a green one or an orange
one according to the politics Of the
Irishmen / am likely to meet. A
wig of a non-human color has the
virtue of keeping the head warm
and the amiable added value Of pro-
claiming TO the beholder: This is
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

Of her chair and closed her eyes
against the butchery.
But the barber laid down the scis-
sors and took up the comb and
brush again. I suppose that no
other profession In the world goes
through so many false motions as
the tonsorial. 1 was driven TO
shaving myself by my inability to
watch the BARRIERS futile fussings.
One day began to count the steps
and passes a shaver made in scrap
ing off the beard I have never dared
TO let grow out long enough to see
what / would like in whiskers. For
/ belong to generation that never
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
"YOu Can Hear the Protests, Here and
There-How Hard Conservatives
Fight to Prevent Changes!"

with anxious dread. realizing that
the worst was over and was plainly
amazed to find that her dear silly
old companion in the backwaters of
old womanhood was now a some
body confronting the world with
resolution and readiness for combat.
The poor woman herself seemed
to be amazed by the noble dome she
had been concealing all her life.
She had been hiding her light under
a bushel and while admiring the
basket had neglected to admire or
tend the light. And now the basket
was off.
VICTIM IS DELIGHTED.
When I left the barbershop she
was delightfully."- discussing which Of
the numberless hobs was best adapt
ed to her particular Uranium. She
was leaning decidedly toward the
most boyish extreme, but the barber
was apparently trying to persuade
her to approach complete emancipa-
ton by degrees.
They say that scenes Of intense
emotion take place in the barber
shops nowadays. BARRIERS say that
women sometimes come up to the
shears. weep, and run, only to re-
turn again and again. Some women
have baked as many as five times
and departed weeping with their
weeping relatives. But they all
come back.
Women gave up tears as
weapon and a refuge for all occa-
sions some time back. A score of
years ago "The Tyranny Of Tears"
was the name Of most successful
play in which a husband discovered
that his wife's emotional storms
we're only a form Of cowardly bully
ing. Women weep hardly more
than men nowadays.
And soon long-haired woman
will be as rare as a long-haired
man.
Already the ultimate seal Of ap-
proval has been placed on the bob.
With recent paper comes a dis
patch from Kansas City saying that
at the annual convention Of the
Woman's Missionary Society Of the
Methodist Church. SO young women
missionaries were commissioned,
and two-thirds Of them wore both
hair and skirts cut short.
BOBBED MISSIONARIES.
Some Of them are on their way
to China and they will be able TO
point TO their own emancipation
before rebuking the hide-bound Gus
toms of the Celestials.
Bobbed-haired missionaries are
going forth into the wilderness!
And only yesterday you could hard
ly have gone TO a church without
hearing bobbed hair denounced as
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
Men Have Broken Themselves of the
Hair Habit; Now Turn of Other
Sex, He Ayers.
By RUPERT HUGHES

TKKE nav. been :ofes enough
= about women invading the bar
bsr shSps, but the other day saw
the tragedy Of it-or at least
tragic moment which VIII have, /
hops, q happy ending.
I had gone 10 the place TO have
my hair bodied and was seated
NEXT 10 q young girl who was try
Ing one Of the thousand and one
new shingles. There 10 no limit
to them and the BARRIERS are com
ing 10 be regarded with the same
ave az the great dressmakers and
The fashionable physicians. In
New York recently ! was told Of a
barber who had grown suddenly 80
busy that be found IL all but i'm
possible to stesl away for lunch
and his dinner hour was being
pushed deeper and deeper into the
night Appointments with him had
TO be made two weeks ahead as
With q dentist.
The run on dentists is now ex-
eseded only By the run on barber
and people with toothache or hair
ache must nurse their distresses a.
beet they may for a week or more.
II was recently estimated that
In Los Angeles alone no less than
thirteen thousand five hundred dol
lars q day was being spent by wo-
mn On BARRIERS and hair dressers.
OLD WOMEN WAIT.
Dot 10 return 10 the shop where
I was made to realize the new
equality Of the sexes. Il seemed
sstursl enough that the girl next
chair 10 me should be trimmed as
dose b boldne. a. possible. But
vAsn i noted two plump gray
Asiret women well past middle age
ssstsd In he waiting line, I as
suned that thsJ were mothers who
sst come b chspercne their bob
bed dsnshters.
But when the hspper was trim
md and whiskbroomed and had
rsesiyed her little cap from the
porter, given him and the barber
tbsir ups, and gone out, the barber
hcid 40 q finger at one Of the
dderiy women and nurmured,
-Nextr
n 10 a welcome word TO The
naies but this poor woman blsnchsd
40 n abe were being summoned to
ss< suillotins. They say that bodied
hair had us origin in the execution
srs hshit Of shipping off any
ks~ses thst might impede the are
ard IN the defiant fashion the
frsncA women took I'd Of trim
uzsf tAsir cwn locks e Ia victime,
- - show that they wsr. as
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

Encyclopedia of Knowledge and important factor
in teaching for young and old is the of pictures PRO
dnees setcr of book backs from his pocket and goes into
sales talk giby and mechanically want you to how
beautifully of school subjects, nature study,
handled by the Listen. (He rsads) There are
sixteen species of opossu, varying in size from cat
down to mouse. 1.-THE Rsv. Klanp is taggng at BHps
coat, but Bill proceeds srh inspired fire. Some pro-
vded with pouch the under side of the body in which
the young reared and others have sign of pouch
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

that half the population once went
about in hoopskirts and rather navi-
gated the streets IN their half bal
looms than walked as women do
now.
Men also had to break themselves
Of the hair habit. A beard was
once the badge of decent man, and
a naked chin was q disgrace. Now
set Of whiskers is looked upon as
a menace. something to be sprayed
at once with an antiseptic vapor.
WHISPERS INDECENT.
People feel that a man has no
more right to bring a set of whis-
kers in the house than a case Of
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

Turns ard Pa for The first time and treeses ,ith
his mouth open They stand and cape each other aith
out morning. sphe curious silence dsseends upon the erosvd
Bill svays dssiy and sits doavn Z. an oavksvard pause
weh broken BY presence of mind of Rev. Klanb .rho
starts applaase)
KLUMP 4s applause dies doun Turns and see, Pa Calls to
hin): Oh Mr.. Potter you just in time to take the
chair us Pa is coming ovey) You missed very good talk
by Our young friend here think you should knew each
other Mr.. Potter, th. is William Travis
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

little late he'd yell his head off Well was all right A fel
lows got to have little liberty. If my home life had been
different maybe I'd been glad to stay home nights. PA
in nnnoiced during this speech and stands abso
tey flabbergaSted Bill does not him. But all that is
past I'm trying to forget the trouble and
and thanks to Rev. Kump, am once more on my feet
and making my way (applanse). Today am valued
representative of the publishers of the Chldrens Picture
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
By J. P McEVOY

(Shoo1ng st,eeher) The outside of the books is at
tractive the inside Our plan to bring you complete
set on the payment (B bends doacn to hear Ohat Res
Kant is trying to sUhper to him. and sraightens up.
bdyydssed by his eninsiasm almost sold you
books. daughter and obpanse) Well going to tell
you that if to meet my father today I'd shake hands
with him and forgive and forget I'd say Dad you meant
all right, but you just didn't understand that all"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

In Du Maurier's "Trilby" there was
a character called "Taffy." He
wore muttonchops SO long that the
ends Of them traiied over his shout
ders. Du Maurier took a beautiful
line that Browning had written
about womens hair: whats be-
come Of all the gold that used to
hang and brush their bosoms," and
applied 1t to the long yellow whis-
kers Of the men.
THE BARBER BEGINS.
And now the women will have no
more of those tresses that enabled
Lady Godiva to ride through Gov
entry completely covered though she
wore nothing else but her own hair.
Which reminds me Of one Of the
jokes Of the late female imperson-
ator, Bert Savoy, who used to
gasp:
well, lost my job today. Yes
I lost my job today. / was playing
Lady Godiva, and I had my hair
bodied. had my hair bodied and
they fired met"
So many jokes are lost with
women's hair-and 20 many poems.
Kissing her hair I sat against her
feet,
Wound and unwound It, kissed and
found it sweet"
Then there was poor Melisande
whose hair was so long that she
let It down from her tower window
and it fell to the lips Of her lover.
1t was not so pleasant when her
husband saw her and, taking her
By the hair, dragged her all over
the garden beating her head on the
ground and driving her to the not
unnatural expression, 81 ar not
happy! I am not happy" In
which wonderful phrase Maeter-
linck certainly took the prize for
avoiding exaggeration.
But I must get this poor woman's
hair bodied.
Finally the barber took up the
shears of fate in deadly earnest,
seized a thick rope Of hair, went
kerslish, and held in his left hand q
long switch.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
SCENE l

REVEREND KLUMP: Fellow Go-Getters let introduce
my young friend here who going give little talk
which think will carry most appropriate message on
Father and Son Week for all of Gentlemen this is
William Travis.
(BN rises and bous acknowledgment TO APPLAUSE aid
begins speech Nth esfdent embarrassment
BILL: Well never made speech before and don't know
whether know how not. guess maybe don't
VOICES: That's all right. Go We're for YOU
BILL Rev. Kunp wanted tell you something about
Father Son Son Week Well don't know much about
Father Son Week. but do know something about fathers
and sons because I'm myself, and know what it
means to have father who don't understand you, who
don't take any interest your welfare guess Rev Klump
told you something about the trouble got into because
had father who didn't take time to understand who
always accused of going to the devil just because
wanted 60 and have little fun in while. Well
almost did got to the devil and why? Well I'll tell you
why because all he thought of his work and trying to
make money. Is that the way for father act?
don't think He used to holer at because wanted to
practice my saxophone home nights and if came home
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

a wig and ! don't want you 10
think that ] don't know you know
it."
The hair on this Door woman
would perhaps 90 to the hair heav-
en-. Good hair. imagine, when it
Is cut off goes into wiggery and
never dies.
But there the barber stood and
combed and brushed this hair before
he severed it forever for the orig
insl producer. And the poor woman
grew more and more nervous. She
was plainly having q battle to keep
back her tears.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
THE POTTERS
PROLOGUE

WE WERE sitting of the tables of the Go
wv Getters Luncheon which Pa Potter presiding
and the purpose of which to launch the Father &
Son Week in the Potter comuny-one of those weeks in
which fathers and get together and become great COM
rade and pals-just Reverend Harold Kump finishing
his stirring address Pa Potter called and neglected to
hear Reverend Kup introducing the next speaker Young
lad who then waiting outsda young lad whom Rev
end Kunp had rescued from the police who had pnched him
in raid Chinese joint part OF the intensive activities OF
the local alcohol snfes Of the young eProbac who
Is now the road salvation other than friend,
Bill Potter who travelling under the alias OF William Travis
:. such alias WELL you might Just as well read on
il You have gotten this far
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
PEEP INTO FUTURE.

When at length the barber took
up his scissors. she WINGED and
made ready TO flee with q scream.
Her elderly friend gripped the arm
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

ready to face death as those who
had climbed the fatal steps.
This poor woman turned pale,
Ewung the hand Of her ancient
friend and took off her hat, reveal
ing the large mop of hair that was
once called ~woman's GROWING
glory, "and 10 now considered a
proof Of old fashioned slavery.
breads SCISSORS.
She marched 10 the chair and
mounted it with the WY face OF q
dentists victim who would not be
sorry IL the dentist dropped dead.
The barber with the deferential
solemnity Of an undertaken, re-
moved dozen hairpins-those
relics Of an earlier civilization
and let down a cascade of hair, full
and luxurious and as long as her
waist
She was not q pretty woman, per
haps had never been one; and it
was easy TO see that her hair was
her one boast, her one pride. Other
women might have Irofiles and
single chins and streanline figures
but she had hair.
II was pretty, TOO, as the barber
eombed it out, drawing it TO its full
length and murmuring q compli-
ment or two in the undertaker's
past tense: How beautiful it
was. ="
A strange thing, hair. Wire of
a sort spun out Of the human head.
Those who study it say it has much
kinship with the horns that our
brother the deer and our sister the
COW extrude from their skulls. The
roots Of it rarely die, we are told,
By hairologists and grow on and on
after we have gone 10 sleep for the
last time.
II is ss hard 10 kill, they Say,
as the liver Of the man Marx Twain
told about: he took certain patent
medicine for biliousness with such
excellent results that when be
passed on, his liver refused TO re-
sign until four days later. when
they took il out and killed il with
a club.
AS TO WIGS
Hair gets angry, we hear, ii it is
cut and grows faster for every
trimming. Shaving it makes it 50
furious that it fairly springs from
chain and scalp with an almost
audible groWl.
There are many interesting things
said about hair, most Of them uu-
true. But foolish as it is, it is 50
highly priced. or has been till re
Gently, by those with a gift Of
growing it, that many people who
lsek the talent pretend they have IL
and wear what are known a. ,sigs
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1925-06-18
FOOT TO LEARN STATUS
Of PETROLEUM COUNTY
Friendly custer Action lie Filed BY ths
Attorney General Against
Petroleum Beard

To determine definitely the status
Of Petroleum county Attorney Gen
eral Foot has filed suit In the supreme
court seeking TO GUST the board OF
county commissioners for the new
county. or 10 require them to show By
what authority they hold office.
The suit Is a friendly one and the
attorney general has already held that
the county maintains its status regard
less If an act OF the 1925 legislature
which. in transferring small tract Of
land from Fergus to Judith Basin
county, included all the land OF Petrol
cum county within its parent county.
Fergus. by considering the old eastern
boundary Of Fergus as the present
line.
The suit sets forth the procedure by
which Petroleum county was estab=
ished by a resolution OF the county
corpsIffssfurers- -EEepeus county. Nov.
20, 1924, TO take effect Feb. %, 1925,
following an affirmative vote OF resi-
dents OF tile district in the general
election in November. 1924, and brings
to the attention of the court the act of
the Legislature as It appears as chap
ter % Of the session laws of 1925.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1925-06-18
Prisoners to Build Roads

Pierre.-Proprieto of its own ce-
ment mandatory, South Dakota may
launch a paved road program this
summer, using cement from Its state
plant and labor from the penitentary
to span the state with hard-surfaced
highways.
A plan has been worked out by Gov.
Carl Gunderson which provides for
utilization of cOnylct labor In the
building OF paved roads. The cement
plant would. under the plan. be oper-
ated at its capacity Of more than 1000
barrels day and all surplus cement
turned over TO the highway commits
sion for paving.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1925-06-18
stinnea Unable 70 Paw

London - An Exchange Telegraph
Agency dispatch from Amsterdam re-
garding the financial crisis through
which the SHINES organization In Ger
many Is passing, says the SHINES In
terests are not able to meet liabilities
abroad, totanlng 120O00.O00 marks.
The difficulties hare been caused.
says the dispatch, by various foreign
credits Of the SHINES interests being
called In. Efforts to obtain new cred
its in4 the United States failed, It IS
stated. p
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1925-06-18
FOREIGNERS LEAVE
THE BATTLE ZONE
FIGHTING AT CANTON GROWING
MORE fNfENsE-HIF
HOSPITAL
AMERICAN WOMAN INJURED
Army Leaders Refuse 20 Move Trcops
Beyond City For Fear Of
Lopina Advantage.

Canton.-All the foreigners have
been evacuated from the danger zone
Heavy fighting Is in progress he
tween Cantonese and Yunanese forces
at this place. Dispatches said -four
Americans. including two women. who
attempted 10 escape from the fighting
zone IN boat displaying the America
flag. were fired upon by Yunanese ma.
chine gunners and that one OF the wO-
men. Mrs Frank Champion, was hit in
the arm.
Yunanese mercenaries bribed the
crew OF the largest enemy gunboat.
which promptly fired on and sank her
fleet companions.
Up TO the present 200 casualties have
been reported in the general fighting
The Canton American hospital was
hit by zone small she'll and several
rifle bullets the advlces said, and two
American launches en- route 70 the
Christian college at Canton were hit
by rifle shots, bur the occupants es-
capped injuries"
Efforts of business interests to IN
Once rival military forces to retire
from the city to carry on their battle
failed. Both Yunanese and Canton
ese lepsers refused because of the sus-
pIclon that In changing positions the
other might gain an advantage.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1925-06-18
STRIKERS STORM
PLANT KILLED
TROOPS CALLED TO KEEP ORDER
IN CANADIAN COAL
FIELD
GUARDS FIRE ON THE MOB
Cape Breton Town In Hands Of Miners
After Clash In Which Many
Are Wounded

Halifax, N. s.-Five hundred troops
have arrived fully equipped and steel.
helmeted. for duty in the Cape Breton
coal fields, where clashes between
striking coal miners and corporation
police resulted in the death Of one min
er. the serious wOunding OF aDothef'
injuries to two score and the repulse
Of the police.
Striking mine workers we're in IN
disputed possession OF the streets OF
New Waterford after a day Of struggle
in which one OF their number was
killed by gunfire, a second was shot
and seriously wounded, and q large
number Of miners and police employed
by the British, Empire Steel corpora
ton were Injured, some OF them Sc
verely.
General Manager H. J. Mccain. Of
the corporation. and number Of of
egcials who were in the New Waterford
power station when It was captured by
strikers. are missing and were be
IIeved to have sought safety in the
woods.