BOBBED HAIR AND OTHER THINGS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18526, 30 October 1925, Page 12

BOBBED HAIR AND OTHER THINGS.

TO THT. EDITOR or "THF. PRESS." Sir,—"Miss Up-to-Date" is particularly unfortunate in her choice of words in championship of the presentday girl. Her reference to "old socks" is in very bad taste, and her letter, as a whole, can hardly merit the term "lady." The suggestion of slang is most unwelcome, and, instead of tho sweetwomanly disposition that attracts. arc confronted with evidence of that boldness which repels, and which is becoming only too prevalent; amongst the girls of the present day. Let me recommend to "Miss 1. p-to-Date" a studv of the lives of Mary ami Martha front the "Good Old Book." She will there get the proper conception of the true woman. If she wants a present-day pattern let her look towards the "first lady" in oiii- kingdom, who has not yet found it necessary to improve (I') God's handiwork b.v lwbbing or shingling her hair, wearing questionable clothing, or worse still, spending her nights smoking, drinking, and jazzing, but who has proved herself as a wife, mother, and model to her sex. The power "Miss Up-to-Date" can wield in this world is a mighty one, but she is fp.st lessening that power, and losing the most beautiful attributes of her creation, by trying to teach Nature her business, and by the many abuses, she is indulging in. Also. she thinks she is making herself more attractive to the opposite sex. Possibly so, but not in n, manner that commands man's respect and honour. Men will fool round with her, drink and smoke with her, but marry her—oh, no. When man reaches tho stage about taking a wife he takes it very seriously, and "Miss Up-to-Date" will then find herself a very l>ad second fiddle to those she terms "old socks." It is one of the inequalities between the sexes that man will, and does, offend against the proprieties and get away with it, but though, he does so, the very same man will not tolerate anything of the sort in the woman he intends to marry. No one wants to deny girls the many innocent pleasures our mothers and grandmothers never had the chance of, neither are they expected to dress in the manner of "olden times, but everyone does want to see them retain that maidenly modesty, which was, is, and ever will be, at once, their most attractive and yet powerful safeguard, but which, unfortunately, seems to be heading towards extinction in the present-day girl. It is simply deplorable to see the terrible wave of excess in all directions that lias overtaken our women kind. As for the bobbed and shingled hair. Woman's hair is one of her . main adjuncts to beauty, and Nature has given it as one of the glories of her sex. If she hasn't got the sense or brains to appreciate it, at least mere man has. If "Miss doubts this assertion, let her put the question to each of her male acquaintances and the answers in confirmation will surprise her.—Yours, etc., ONE OF THE "OLD SOCKS." TO THE EDITOB OF "THE PBESS." Sir,—Dear old "Grandma's" letter this morning was delightful. She is so unlike the old-fashioned grandma that wore wide skirts and poked her liair under a bonnet, and who told her grandsons such wonderful stories of those good old days when she was a girl. Of course I do not know whether this particular one nursed a grandchild or a dog—perhaps the latter, for she certainly has moved with, the times. — Yours, e.tc., , • BALDY. October 28th, 1925. • -