Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-20
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES f. TRACEHELL.

| fashionable. women had their first
chance amid the centuries to get the
| Jump on men by covering up their
! ears.
Ears look we'll on elephants. but if
| you called woman an elephant, she
would get insulted They are very
touchy creatures. anyway, and have TO
be handled carefully.
| If a married man tells married
woman mot his own that she looks
| better with her hair over her ears and
not tucked back, the chances are 10
to that she will reply: why, what
business is it of yours? You have
enough to do to take care of your own
| wife. 1 wear my hair behind my ears
because l want it behind my ears, so
| there! I could find fault with you, too,
| If l wanted to, but" and she will
| stop with that look which says as plain
ly as a look can, why, 1 could say
terrible things about you. but am too
polite, you lmpolite person, youi"
AS matter of fact, the poor gentle
man perfectly theoretically, of course)
ought to come back with some such
reply, as the following: Why, you big
slmpleton, I regard my own wife as
| perfect, and therefore can't find any,
| thing to find fault with in her, so must
| turn my mind to other ladies. And
simply don't like this -behind-the-
ears business. You look much sWeeter
| With 1t hanging loose waving freely in
the wind. And this. my dear, as the
children say, is not personal finding
OF fault, in any sense, but simply and
solely an attempt on my part, free OF
charge, to induce you to be at your
best, and, through you, all women, for
| none of you looks good with her darn
ears showing"
| Will he say all of this, however? Well
not If he has any sense he won't and
anyway, he won't think of it until next
day
| The very essence of the modern bob,
| as exempliied among women, is the
! free hanging qualities of the gobS of
| hair on the left and right sides of the
| face of the owner thereof.
| Since the sad fact of long hair was
that it required pinning up, and this
same pnning up forced the ears to
stand out more or less prominently, and
since all ears are ugly, it followed as
| the night the day that cutting off the
aforementioned long tresses would re-
lieve the pull on the head
This freedom from strain must be
one of the delights of bobbed hair.
Men who have always had bobbed hair
cannot begin to understand the Joy
with which women everywhere greeted
this new sense of freedom
| Waving freely in the wind, the bob
fell over the ears and concealed them,
except in those comparatively few cases
in which certain types of girls imagined
they looked cute with a "boyish bob. y
| Very few of them did, but as long as
they thought they did, perhaps it was
all right.
The failure came, not through the
"boyish bob" itself, but because such
style of haircut allowed those big
| ears to show up on the feminine hori-
ION.
Carefully consider an ear even the
ear of the sweetest Sweetie in the
world. Is there a thing pretty about
it? Is it not, rather, an absurd piece
OF cartilage stuck on the side of the
| head?
| An ear is no more beautiful than that
other absurd factor in the human face,
the nose, but the nose is inescapable.
whereas the ear may be obliterated, es-
pecially if it is feminine ear.
Keep your ears covered up, nv dear.
Don't forgo the divine right which
fashion has at last given into your
power
| Don't let the movie stars STAMPEDE
| you out of one of the greatest bene-
fits of bobbed hair.
BE good, sweet maid, and let who