PLOT AGAINST WOMAN.

Putaruru Press, Volume III, Issue 114, 24 December 1925, Page 2

PLOT AGAINST WOMAN.

TO STOP “ BOBBING.” A dastardly plot to ruin the happiness of millions of women has been hatched in New York (writes Rothay Reynolds in the Daily Mail). The conspirators have extended their work to Paris, and their agents are active all over Europe. Fortunately a writer in the German .press has discovered their ugly secret. The plotters, he states, are makers of hairpins, tortoise-shell combs, wigs, tranSfcArma/tions, fringes, and plaits, who see ruin staring them in the face. In their despair they have a world-wide war against the shingled woman. The sum of £20,000 has already been subscribed by the wholesale dealers in false hair of America to finance the conspiracy. Money is being subscribed by manufacturers in Paris and, as the plot extends to London, Berlin, Vienna, Warsaw, and Rome, there will be ample funds to carry it out. The aim of the conspirators is to burden women’s heads with masses of plaits and curls and to stick them full of iron pins. Their method is to insinuate the idea that the truly fashionable woman is no longer cropped and to create in women a longiiig for flowing tresses. Not a thought do they give to the misery of their victims inthe months and perhaps years which must elapse before short hair has grown to rat-tails and rat-tails to a tress which can be plaited into a neat knob. All they think of is their own pockets. The agents of these sordid

men are hard at work. They are already sewing unrest in the minds of women by means of ingenious paragraphs in the newspapers. They are seeking to suborn artists to praise the fashions of bygone times, and they have gone so far as to drive poor girls into the streets of Paris with bits of other girls' hair attached to their heads. In Berlin they have no success. Three of the greatest actresses have just been cropped, and a fashionable hairdresser states that he chops off 50 pigtails a day. The only difficulty is the German husband, who appears to have a superstitious idea that a woman’s hair is her glory. Husbands, however, were made to be managed, and the advice of a German to one of her .friends who dreaded her husband’s anger may be usefully repeated. “Go and get your hair shingled,” she said, “and do what I did. Wlhen I got home after the operation and my husband began to fume, I just turned on him, declared that I had been shingled for a whole week, that he had not even noticed it ,and that it was perfectly clear that he didn’t love me. I made such a scene that he gave me a niq2 present next day.”