Show the fable of the unflinching 0 heroine ea dy by GEORGE ADE bell bel S nd cato service there was a good woman 0 inho ft ho wt next to mary quern queen of scots probably suffered more than any other prominent elit lady of whom vie BO liae haie record it will be recalled that I 1 mary start started ed out ns as a proud monarch and finished 1 d up as a martyr maille n lille 1 mrs 0 started out as a democratic fixture and fInIs finished bed up as a gazelle the unfortunate queen of scots had her head bead cut off mrs did not go quite that far but she underwent a major operation which seemed just as important por tant and which aich was preceded by as much suspense doubt and trepidation as that which racked the royal prisoner mrs before she got into the jam had been married so many years tears that she had concealed all thelle the records cords and changed the subject when some careless friend began to dig up dates she owned up to remembering the spanish american war but the details were all blurred because she was so young at the time whatever may have been her vintage she had a holy horror of looking old or feeling old or acting as it if on ohp th retired list she re referred erred to the other bridgers as girls and would warn any bachelor on the slightest provocation that her husband was jealous she had a pair of scales in her bath room and had tried a facial mask mash and six or seven years tears ago had learned to walk loose and slouchy like a leading lady in a 13 3 show also she wore a one piece contraption which concealed her knee caps unless she had to sit in a steamer chair exit lor for the seven sutherland sisters she had a perfectly laudable ambition to keep on looking an until they chopped her down when she got red in n the face after dancing continuously for about forty minutes she kidded herself that the nigh high color was the flush of girlhood instead of a warning against apoplexy she wore beads and took a swing at a gulf golf ball once in a while and used to sit out in fit the evening and sing with the college boys before the ukulele inas ft as pushed aside by the fhe saxophone and crossword cross word puzzle from this preamble it will be evident that her name should have been mrs ponce de leon if there was any fountain of youth she wanted to hunt it up and dive in headfirst it happened that one morning mrs awoke and discovered that the seven sutherland sisters had become a joke it may be remembered that these girls had tresses which swept the ground and were copious all the way down when all of the seven were bunched the view from behind was like that of niagara falls mrs recalled that in her seminary days it was the longing of 0 every sub deb to be a sutherland so that when the mop was let down it would reach to the ankles in fact it seemed that long hair had bad been the rage from the days of eve cleopatra and lady godiva the last named tor for instance certainly would have caught cold it if the modern style had been in vogue in coventry in the bilth century imagine the shock which came to mrs when she learned that the flappers instead of wearing it down donn to the ankles had decided to wear it only as far as the first cervical vertebra some modern joan of are arc residing in paris had bad taken a tip from the dutch kids and buster brown find and had amputated the whole works just below the ears it seemed that u within thin 24 hours all the cuales in the world were throbbing with excitement and wondering if they would parejo follow suit the situation looks grave the answer was not long delayed all of the young ones fell for the fad within a short time the village barber shop ceased to be the place at the local bootlegger studied the pictures in the police gazette it became a salon the social center of the community congested tor for hours at a time with the very pick and flower 0 of young womanhood prominent citizens who did not know how to shave themselves be began an to resemble arneil torrence all bushed up for a western hairpins Hair pins and side combs suddenly became a drug on the market but bat all the factories making toilet soap began to work night shifts when the new craze began to sweep the woodlands and prairies mrs spoke right up and said it was terrible she pulled the gid one about a womans comans chief glory being her hair flair and she imagine what some of the young toung girls were enking of when they sacrificed a topknot top knot on which they had been working for years sirs mrs stuck atuck to her waves 1 and frizzes friezes anil and the artificial stuffing j and any suggestion that some day she might join the preat great sisterhood of bobs would have given her the bibby Jib birs bips resides besides bhe and the other young matrona matrons aho bo tolled at the card bubles lilot beery day predicted that the was just a temporary orae irae anil triine of f those who had tip hr in an awful liole hole ahon lp 10 ath s shifted back and they t tiled led I 1 i Y wear war it lung long again As month after month passed b by Y and the number of victims increased and rumor had it that elsie janis carrie chapman catt elsie ferguson ethel etbel barrymore bebe daniels queen mary glenna collett and gaall burcl had succumbed the situation began to look serious it seemed that ft a good many girls who were no longer kittens and nho mho in the old oil days would have been knitting instead ot of jazz jumping had been clipped and were shamelessly S Imme lessly exhibiting their necks for the first time signs of wobbling mr began to notice that the missus instead of saying that any woman belond 30 who nho got shingled shingle was a hussy began to stall and ask questions she wanted to know of him if he be thought it was dignified of a woman who had a daughter in smith college to trim herself up like a soubrette and try to step out when she should have no ambition except to create a home atmosphere for her husband and children mr was twice foxy and said he thought that the modern woman bad a right to do an tiling which would not be stopped by the tha police ile he had read the signs and seen the handwriting on the wall lie ile knew that friend wife was getting ready to fall rod and when the time came she wanted to be pushed and make out that she had been talked into it she showed him in the paper where mrs pillsbury riUs bury of Rock fill pa had been bobbed at the age of eighty two and said it made her look and feel forty years younger and she wanted to know it if he be think it was ridiculous but he sald said that it mrs pillsbury was satisfied he be thought it was great then there came a day when she pulled a false giggle and said that lib and gert geri were both after her to go to a place tn in the union central building where there was a man who had learned it in new york and who could advise one as aa to which style would be most becoming she had no intention of going but it was a fact that a great many women ever so much older than she bad been done over and be surprised what a change it made mr a diplomat of the first water said that no matter what she did to the hirsute crop she would always look like a million dollars to him and if she wanted to make the supreme venture to go ahead and he be hoped that her conscience would be her guide no ether used weeks before the big event every one but mrs knew that she was slipping she kept on protesting that the whole thing was silly but the fact that she talk about anything else proved that she was a marked woman finally she hung the whole responsibility lity on to she said that if he insisted on it she would go ahead and have it done then came the tense weeks during which she was trying to decide whether to have a boyish bob or a shingle or a terrace effect or the fishhook fish hook dingle dangles or some scallops on the day when she went vent to the union central building the sun stood still and traffic was suspended she refused to take any anesthetics and went through the ordeal absolutely alone except tor for lib and gert ella and jess after it was over she dlan t know whether to go and sit in peacock alley or hurry home and hide la in a closet just after she took the fatal step a convention of hairdressers hair dressers in atlantic city decreed against the bob but it was a false alarm mrs Is now high priestess of the cult and will tell you what a relief it is not to be compelled to hang your head out of the bathroom bath room window for hours at a time MORAL A woman Is as old as her husband tells her she Is |