Life — August 28, 1924 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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Think Twice Betore You Step Into That Barber Shop “THE following opinions, rendered im- partially, show pretty conclusively how thought is running in this country teeday? A woman who would bob her hair Id do anything,” declared Rossiter \Voon, President of the Lazy Daisy spark Plug Company. “I am all for idea.” Unwomanty,” was the summary of \irs. Dolores McBlease, popular police matron and artists’ model. Mrs. Mc- Iease offered in proof of her theory e fact that her mother had never bbed her hair, and is now, at the age seventy, enjoying the best of spirits. see “Tuere is, 1 suppose, much to said on both sides,” said Horace R. Creak, designer of the O- So-Kozy two-family mausoleum. There are women, I have no loubt, to whom bobbed hair is be- coming. On the other hand, you ught to see my wife.” eee Miss Harker Wance, clocu- tionist, political worker, and all- round good fellow, is firm in her conviction that all women would be bet- ter off for bobbed hair. She regards it s a step in the right direction, and predicts that it is only a matter of tim: before women realize that they are more than men's playthings, and ven- THE FEATHER DUSTER DOME THE SING SING SINGE ture out into the big busy world. “I would not be without my bobbed hair for anything under two dollars,” said Miss Wamble, in concluding her talk THE BRYAN BOB “I woutp not employ a woman with short hair,” affirmed John F. Trowel, of the Little Romp Mortgage and Loan Company. “Bobbed hair is immoral, unpatriotic, and gets in your eye. I have already had two girls in our ac- counting department shot for coming to work with their hair cut.” Trowel has count- es, three telegrams, and a ater taffy, in apprecia- tion of his stand. eee received “Wuat are the women coming to?” asked Roger L. Ult, vice-chairman of the Fewer Vacations fund. “Bobbed law Read What These Experts Have to Say About Bobbed Hair hair, short skirts, bicycles, peek-a-boo 's, talcum powder—where is it all to end? First thing you know, they will be smoking and swearing.” eee More hopeful were the views of Mrs. Caroline Vesey Dounce, author of “Twenty Pretty Ways to Serve Car- rots,” “What Shall We Do with Our Eggplants?” and “Rambles Cranberry-lover.” “The — bobbed-hair rage will soon be over,” prophesied the authoress, idly stroking her silky Per- sian. “And there will be a lot of un- happy girlies who will wish they had those pretty curls back again.” see with a Rosert B. Wainer, stockroom clerk and cheer-leader of the Greater Haines Falls Water-wings Company, could not be made to un- derstand, for some time, what the controversy was all about. After traffic had been held up for half an hour, he gave out the announce- ment that it was nothing to him whether or not women cut their hair. “Or their throats,” he added, with a certain likable twinkle in his eye. see Others who concurred in this opinion were Marcus M. Oats, practical grinder; Miss Fanny La Salle, actress, slack-wire dancer, or what have you?; Sydney V. Urlick, President of the Haut Noblesse Boys’ Pants Company, and Peggy Hopkins Joyce, home girl. Dorothy Parker. THE HOT DOG DANGLE comicbooks.com