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Show JUST REFETITIOJJ'OF HISTORY Fads ef thi Present Day Had Their Counterpart In the Fathlona cf Yean Ago. Nothing Is new under tho sun, not even the newect and mowt np-todatc girl striker of the present day, with bobbed hair, nor cen the emploer who cemplnlns of the fashion. A writer writ-er In "Hlackwood" has dt8coercd that In the time of Jnmci I, this fatihlou was nITi-cted by women who donned thu doublet and hose, which aroused the Ire of an unknown author, who In 1020 lampooned the women of the day for so dressing, and distend of keeping, to "the modest attire of the rnmely hood, cowl or eolf nnd handsome dress and klrchlfa" betook themsches to the ''cloudy, ruffianly, broad-brimmed hat nnd wanton feathery." Nor was this all. The extrataganee of her owtuiiH, with the "Freiioh donhlet" whlih took; the place of a "lomvllcd straight gonn" was not In the author's eje thu, deadliest offense; Incredible though It fceeniH, she would "out and cut her hair to the desplinble fashion of the Puritan." So the bobbed hair roines ns n reminiscence of the modern mnld-en's mnld-en's fortbears In the Cocniinters' time. |