Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-02-08

AZ Month after Month passed by
and the number of Victims increased
and Rumor had ii that Elsie Janis.
Carrie Chapman Gait. Elsie Ferguson.
Ethel Barrymore. Bebe Daniels. Queen
Mary. Glenna Collett and GaIli-Curci
had succumbed. the situation began To
look serious. 1t seemed that q good
many Girls who were no longer KIT
tens and who in the Old Days. would
have been knitting instead Of Jazz
Jumping. had been clipped and were
shameIessly exhibiting their Necks for
the first time
Signs Of Webbing.
Mr. WambO began to notice that the
Missus. instead Of saying that any
Woman beyond 30 who got sh.nSIed
was Hussy. began to stall and ask
Questions. She wanted TO know of
him If he thought it was Dignified Of
a Woman who had a Daughter In
Smith College to trim herself up like
Soubrette and try to step out when
she should have no ambition except to
create a Home Atmosphere for her
Husband and Children. Mr. Wambo.
was twice foxy and said he thought
that the Modern Woman had a Right
to do Anything which would not be
stopped by the Police. He had read
the Signs and seen the Handwriting
on the Wall He knew that Friend
Wife was getting ready to Fall and,
when the Time came, she wanted to
be pushed and make out that she had
been talked into ii.
T, She showed him in the paper where
Mrs. Pillsbury of ROcklll. Pa, had
F.. been Bodied at the age of eighty-two
and said it made her look and feel
Forty Years Younger and she wanted
to know if he didn't think it was ride
ulous but he said that IL Mrs. Pills
bury was satisfied. he thought 1t was
Great.
Then there came a Day when she
pulled False Giggle and said that
Lib and Cert were both after her to
go to a Place in the Union Central
Building where there was a man who
had learned it in New York and who
could advise one as to which STYLE
would be most becoming. She had no
Intention of going but it was a Fact
that a great many Women ever so
much older than She had been done
over and you'd be surprised what a
Change it made. Mr.. Wambo, n Dip
lOmat of the First Water, said that
no matter what she did to the Hir-
suite Crop she would always look like
a Million Dollars to him and il she
wanted to make the Supreme Venture
to go ahead and he hoped that her
conscience would be her Guide.
No Ether Used.
Weeks before the big Event every
one but Mrs. Wambo knew that she
was slipping. She kept on protesting
that the Whole Thing was silly but
the Fact that she couldn't talk about
anything else proved that she was
Marked Woman.
Finally she hung the whole Respon.
sibility on to Wambo She said that If
he insisted on it, she would go ahead
and have it done.
Then came the tense Weeks during
which she was trying to decide wheth-
err to have Boyish Bob or a Single
or Terrace Effect or the Fish, Hook
Dngle-Dangles or some ScallOps.
On the Day when she went to the
Union Central Building the Sun stood
still and Traffic was suspended. She
refused to take any Anesthetics and
went through the Ordeal absolutely
alone except for Lib and Cert Ella
and Jess After it was over she didn't
know whether to go and sit in Pea.
cock Alley or hurry Home and hide in
a closet.
Just after she took the Fatal Stem
a Convention of Hair-Dressers in AT.
lantic City decreed against the Bob
but it was False Alarm. Mrs VAN.
bo is now High Priestess of the Cult
and will tell you what Relief II IL
not to be compelled to hang your head
out of the Bath Room Window for
Hours at time.
p MORAL: woman Is as old as her
Husband tells her she Is.