"BOBBED" HAIR.

Shannon News, 21 November 1924, Page 4

"BOBBED" HAIR.

i » .-> —■ WOKUD-'WIDE AGITATION. FOLLY OF DENOUNCING IT.

the agitation against bobbed hair is becoming world-wide, and it must be causing- great indignation in the ranks of modern girlhood. Ten nurses, it appears, have been suspended from Grant Hospital, Columbus, U.S.A., until their hair grows again,,and 300 woman hairdressers in Tokio, Japan, are conferring at a shrine and invoking the aid of the gods to turn women from the dreadful practice of "bobbing" (writes John Blunt in the Daily Mail). T feel that I can understand the motive of the Japanese hairdressers, for once a woman's hair is bobbed, what need has she of constant costly coiffures ?• But I am at a loss to account for the action of the superintendent of Grant Hospital, unless, indeed, it be that "bobbing" so enhanced the looks of the nurses that the temperature of the patients went up alarmingly. But I daresay, after all, that what really upsets some people against bobbed hair is that conservative streak in many of us which detests innovation. Women have grown their and this is the practical mode of His hair long for so many centuwes that the world in general has come to regard long hair as their fitting adornment and to see in any deviation from the rule a sort of brazen boldness which must be stamped out. I can understand, I believe, what women feel about women in this re-, spect, ! for most me nare indulgent so long as it suits' the woman —because when I see a long-haired youth I have an almost irresistible inclination to give him a kick. I know that long hair may be an expression of his sensitive soul, or of his revolt against social -injustice, or of his tendency to write poems, but I feel brutally uninterested in anything about him save that he possesses ■ long hair which ought to be cut short. My conservative streak demands that men should cut their hair short, and women's conservative streak demands that women should grow their hair long. There- does not seem to be very much' justice about it;if a jgirl looks pretty with bobbed hair I prefer her so, and, in the same way, I believe that many long-haired youths are considered darlings by romantic maidens, v The' only thing that really alters the fashion of the moment is the fas-hion-of the next moment. To fulminate against bobbed hair will delight its devotees, who are usually young women' of spirit. Moreover, I don't want to fulminate against it because, in my humble opinion, it suits some girls admirably. But that again, won't make it stay a day longer than

fashion demands. Already,' indeed, to be on

the wane, and, as fashions of this type run through the world like wildfire, I don't think they need fee so strict in Columbus or so distressed In Tokio. Give things a little time and we shall see-long _ _ _^_. This sounds philosophic, but I'm ashamed to say that I don't want to give the long-haired youths any time ■ at all. I want to huriy them off to a barber. That, I presume, is the prejudice of mar. against man, and so I fear.' that my advice to women to, keep calm will be "of little avail. // #And yet t know it "is wise because the one sure way of keeping a craze alive is to denounce it.