Show Does Long Hair Mean Strength O O O O 9 O O O 0 Rowers With Full Tresses Beat Bobs L j f x j N rk i. i k The Seven Spinster Sisters Louis iana Tana State Normal colleges college's longhaired longhaired long long- haired cham pion crew I NEW ORLEANS OnLEA'S La Sept 11 By Bye I Does NEA-Does Does a girls girl strength like Samson's rest In her hair I I Have the haired bobbed-haired flappers I shorn themselves of some m mysterious ous source of vitality I Are there girls yet living who are proud enough of womans woman's crowning I glory to cherish It in the face of ot a clip clip-clip clicking of shears that is I sounding around the world proud enough lot of it to go out and battle I j for it They'll tell the world they're be beginning beginning be- be I be-I I ginning to believe e that thai up at Louisiana Louisiana Louisiana Lou Lou- State Normal college at i Natchitoches I For there they have a rowing crew of seven se beautiful girls daughters daughters daugh daugh- tel's of Louisiana's proudest families families lies tIes who wear their hair hall long as their beautiful mothers and grandmothers grandmothers grandmothers grand grand- I mothers did before them And its it's the college championship championship championship champion champion- ship crew having won every con con- test in sight from flOm all the crews i of haired bobbed-haired girls who have rowed against them I The Seven Spinster Sisters they call themselves laughingly Nor mals mal's Freaks the bobbed haired sisterhood sisterhood sisterhood sis sis- sis sis- I of the college calls them And fro point of view of a I bobbed haired world they do not I look freakish Every one of them i ihas has hair thick and shining and long j i jand and flowing falling failing far down below below below be be- low her waist In a cascading massof mass i o of shimmering beauty when it is let down I Now ow L Louisiana State Normal ormal COllege college college col COl- lege Is close to the famous Red river and is surrounded by beautiful lakes Rowing n is o one of the f favorite O amusements em f and exercises e I of the I girls who study there And scores of college crews spring up among the hundreds of students 1 They dont don't row In the shells sheIls of the varsities They row in specially built six-oared six racing skiffs and t the faculty faculty encourages the rowing I Out on l lake ke and river went for tor I practice the crew of the the Seven Spinster Sisters six to row and oneas one oneas oneas as coxswain Then presently the races started And Freaks cleaned up up everything In sight With stead steady powerful strokes those girls girls' their long hair hall whipped to silken banners in the breeze out- out rowed cr crew w after crew crew of haired bobbed-haired sisters And they had the reserve for the spurt at the end that brought them In winners They wont won't give their names to Louisiana the papers Its It's against tradition Just as long hair for women women women wo wo- wo- wo men is approved by Louisiana tra tra- I Their college mates support them in their stand But their has been taken and here they are in all the glory of ot their flowing hair hall and their championship |