Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-11-07 | Page 16 | Why is the Rat?

WHY IS THE RAT Speaking of of the rats work by by the Los Angeles High school girls and banished by order of the authorities here hero are two letters each In its several place Editor I have read your editorial about the school schoolgirls schoolgirls schoolgirls girls who wore rats in their hair un until until until til the teachers made them stop You say the teachers went too far In making the girls leave the rats at home But If you ou will watch those girls with the biggest rats rots you will find that they are doing nothing but thinking of the boys They dont study They The Just I flirt f Now as to that that we Ye shall make no comment If tie Us true tie pity There are ara many things which we dont know One of them is what a girl thinks But we wonder if it the girls gen generally generally emIly agree with the sentiments ex expressed expressed I pressed by our correspondent I And here Is the other Editor Whether or not a girl should wear rats rat IP II school I am sure the teacher did a good thing in banishing them because women are Ure getting bald enough as it is And there s i no better Jetter reason In the world than thim the fact that they wear such i iaP abominable aP masses of unhealthy things to make the masses of their hair seem larger Which Is a more clear dear case As we understand it the women wear rats because they have no hair and they have no hair because they wear rats If that is s the correct view of the case there ther is only one thing to do The rat must go For the Bible Elbie says The glory of ot a woman Is In her ter hair