Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-22


~ or something else just around the cor
ner? Read the answers to those ques-
tons in your wife's hair.
Woman's hair is now and always has been
barometer Of the worlds military economic
and political conditions This is because
woman is an opportunist not so much con-
scously as intuitively She has to be that
way, constantly trimming her sails to the
shifting gales
Watch how she rigs that topsail of hers
that Growing glory then you may know
what the world situation is right now and
get a glimpse of what il is developing into
This has always been true since the be-
ginning of hair history according to M. Louis,
lecturer author of the volume. six Thousand
Years Of Hair Styling" and director Of the
Nj. Louis Hair Design Institute NJ Louis
says one can tell from the hair-dress OF an
ancient statue or painting whether the woman
who was its model lived in a carefree era of
ease, confidence and prosperity or in the
shadow of coming wars and disaster.
Hair styles used to move in slow cycles,
corresponding TO the slow rise and fall of
empires and civilizations But things rush
along with hhtz-speed today and therefore
we have just seen "A thousand-year hair cycle
compressed into hardly more than genera
= ton. In fact modern variations Of all the
niePched in quick parade within the space of
81 years. Probably hair history is about to
repeat itself in an even shorter period.
To begin with an outstanding example
Of the present, which is only a resurrection
OF the past NJ Louis offers first on the
strip at the top Of this page the typical Golf
fure OF 1913 Women then piled their hair
high on the head the high hair-dol. Most of
us well remember what in the air at
that time Europe vas giving off threatening
vibrations OF unrest, warnings Of the storm
OF the World War IN America however men
were saying cheerful things
a modern war can't last more than six
months In that time America will become
rich by selling billions of dollars worth of
food and munitions Anyhow there is no
chance that we viii get into it,"
Women echoed these opinions but some
thing way down In their intuitive machinery
made them set that high hair-do storm sig
nal and go into the behavior which accom-
panies II. When men start pulling things
down in one part Of the world the damage
spreads 20 the rest in one way or another
That high hair was accompanied by expen-
siye clothing a sudden burst OF dancing and
all sorts Of extravaganza. II usually does
Historians have pointed out that such
eras Of feminine extravaganza and frivorty
usher in the collapse Of civilizations But the
squandering Is not the cause Of the collapse
merely a symptom Of It. Woman's intuition
tells her that the barbarian Is coming 10
loot and destroy II any OF the family savings
arc not stolen. her own government will take
them as taxes Instinct tells her to blow the
money before someone else grabs Il
Let as see whore that ominous hair-do
doomed up in history before The most
prominent recent one was on the head Of
Marie Antoinette and the other spendthrift
ladies Of France during the 'after-me-the-
deluge' period They felt The bloody shadow
Of The French Revolution creeping upon them
The darker the shadow grew the more hysteri-