Show j- j L. L Over in m California in the town of or Porterville Ii lives ves Mrs 1 Cynthia L L. Templeton She is only 96 years of age but accor according ing to the news dispatches dispatches dispatches dis dis- dis- dis patches she is just as gay and giddy as a girl of 16 and declares that thai she has just begun to have a goo goop good time To show the people in her herI I locality lity that she means just what whai she says on Saturday she visited a barber shop and there ha had her hair bobbed On her return home she astonished the four generations of her offspring by her action She is t the e oldest citizen of the section of or California in which her home is lo lo- lo In the long ago as I remember when the question of universal suffrage suffrage suffrage suf suf- frage was first agitated its strongest advocates were women who had sh short shirt rt hair It was shingled just like a mans man's and as a rule when addressing ad ad- dressing an audience the women were introduced by men whose hair was long hence the appellation short haired women and Longhaired Longhaired Long Long- haired men Many of of- the shorthaired shorthaired shorthaired short- short haired women wore bloomer costumes costumes costumes cos cos- and advocated the cause of or universal suffrage I recall a anum num number ber bel of the advocates of suffrage who I wore their hair shingled But why should not the feminine sex wear wear their hair short The present custom Of wearing bobbed hair Is declared by all those who have had their golden and chestnut and brown and auburn locks Jocks shorn to give them more com comfort comfort comfort fort than when it was worn in the theold theold theold the old way curled about the head But one does miss the long strand of h hair ir usual usually y two of ot the them n that the younger girls wore hanging down the back and tied with a handsome bow of ribbon Just re recall recall recall re- re call a a- afew few years agone when it was the young girl whose hair was dressed that way wayby by by mother and then sent on her way to school Was she not pretty And were vere not the long tresses that hung down her herback herback back beautiful V Well ell we all will say so And yet the aged California woman has set aside all precedent nt I for young women of her age anc and I had her hair bobbed Two weeks ago I walked down the street with my granddaughter Both were bound for the same place place place-a a barber shop She took the first chair I the second She had her hair bobbed and her neck shaved so did I. I Yet if a few years ago anyone had told me that such a athing athing athing thing would occur I w would uld have haye taken It with many grains of of al al- al lowance But bobbed hair i is here to stay and the California girl of 96 who sh shook ok her bobbed locks on Saturday it is said d that 1925 1926 will willbe be her youngest year It might be added that according I to the record Dalilah Delilah caused a whole lot of trouble when she cut the locks of S Sampson and bobbed I his hair |