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i The "Nut's" fashion of allowing the hair to <'Tow long in front and then brushing it straight back over the cranium was probably seen first on the stage, perhaps in a Pincro comedy, but it caught on unexpectedly in the army as an ingenious evasion of one of the first articles of military law. By keeping his hair short at the back and round the ears'j and using up all the length over a-s dome-like a skull as he happened to possess, an office! could pass lmisfei* under ia helmet while in. tho walks of peace he figured as the modest possessor of a fairly good head of hair. One day a subaltern was seen by a general officer in the act of arranging'his hair in the new mode. Before his hair could be combed backwards it had first to be combed forwards, and the general saw over the edge of his towel a cascade of hair which covered the greater part of the young "warrior's face. Ho --was gazing afc it in a-stonishmc.nt i when the owner of this luxuriance, with a skillful ierlc of his head, nassed it all unerringly into its appointed place on the top of tiis -scull. Then tho Gen-eral-knew for certain, what he had indeed inspected for some time, tliat the Service was going to the dog» s , a'id ha d (nearly (rot there. Shortly afterwards the authorities took unfavourable noticp'of the fashion, and, indeed, it sccnis to be generally going out.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 January 1913, Page 7

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249

Untitled Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 January 1913, Page 7

Untitled Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 January 1913, Page 7

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