NO BOBS IN ROME.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1926, Page 5

NO BOBS IN ROME.

WHEKES THE WIGMAKER. (By SIXBAD.J The shin-rled maids of Italy have heard most woeful news, for they have found they are of fate the sport. The Queen of late has taken pains to air decided views and now they find they can't appear at court. '"I cannot say I like this modern fashion," said the Queen, "to cultivate a binjsde or a bob; myself. I like to keep a lot of hair upon my bean and shaven necks for women make mc sob. I roay be dull and dowdy, too, I may be out of date, nor with the modern shingled miss compare, but when upon the Royal Throne I hold my court in state the ladies must appear complete with hair." Oh! how Italian maidens weep and how their teeth they gnash : The Tiber now is brimming with their tears, and bitterly do they bemoan the style, alas, too rash, which led them to apply the fatal shears. Now, here's a chance for enterprising men across the foam who seek a likely spec with profits big. for with this Mussolini-like old dame supreme at Rome there ought to be a marked for the wig.