WOMEN'S HAIR

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 4, 6 January 1926, Page 2

WOMEN'S HAIR

SHINGLING BESULTS IN

BANKRUPTCY,

A dastardly plot to ruin the'happiness of millions of women has been hatched in New York (write* Eothay Beynolds 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, h« states, are makers of hairpins, tortoise-shell combs, wigs, transformations, fringes, and plaits, who see ruin staring them in the face. In their despair they have engineered 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 iB being subscribed by manufacturers in Paris and, a* the plot extends to London, Berlin, "Vienna, Warsaw, and Borne, 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 i» no longer cropped, and to create in women a longing for flowing tresses. Not a thought do they give to the misery of their Victims in the months und perhaps years which must elapse before short hair has grown to rat-tails and rat-tails to a trees which can be plaited into a neat knob. All they think of is their own pockets. The agonts of these sordid men are hard at work. They ate already sowing unrest in the! minds of women by means of ingdnibus ■ paragraphs in the newspapers. They are seeking to suborn artists to praise the fushiona of bygone times, and they have gou™ so far as to drivu poor 'girls into the streets of Paris with bits of othor girls' hair attached to their heads.

In Berlin they have no success. Three of the greatest actresses have jUat been croppod, and a fashionable Hairdresser states that he cliop6 off 50 pigtails a tiny, Tlft only difficulty is the Gorman husbfind, who upponrs to have it superstitioiis idea thut a woman's hair is her glory. Husbsuxla, however, were niruU'. to b« nianaged, and the advise of tt German to one tit her friends -\vlio dreiided her hiispand's angei' niiiybe usefully ropefttr cd, "Go iiml get your lijiir liljingled,*' she said, "and do what I djr]. When I gofc«h6Die uftor tho opurtition and niy husbii)ul began to fume, I just turned on him, declared that I lindbeen shingled for a wliolo week, that he h:ic] jipt even noticed it,, and that it was perfectly cleuv that he dirlu 't Jove me. I made such a ncono thai hy gave mo a nieo present next duy.'■'.