Apropos of hair, a curious legal point has been raised by a prominent French member of Parliament. His daughter, a girl of eighteen, wanted to have her hair bobbed, and asked her father's permission, which he emphatically re-
feminine astuteness," to confront fused. decided, with truly him with a fait accompli, and, while he was engaged on his Panis mentary duties she went to th family hairdresser's and had operation performed. When he father returned home and dis covered what had happened, his wrath knew no bounds, and atter exhausting his vocabulary, with very little effect, on his daughter, he marched off, in a state of tary, im bitterly, winding up with the timation that he would be pro-secured, The angry deputy even proceeded to carry out his threat, and lodged a complaint against the hairdresser, arguing that the latter ought not to cut off a girl's hair jour the consent of her parents or guardians. This is certainly 4 new aspect of the paternal right of control. The irate parent will doubt realise on reflection that even a member of Parliament cane not hope to override the dictates of fashion, and that it is better to ho disobeyed than to be ridiculous, "Every man his own landlord ight be the motto for a private Bill which is backed by numerous members of the Chamber and has, been laid on the table of that assembly. The preamble puts for~ ward the startling proposition that it would be quite practicable, by means of a system of loans, to. provide every French family with 200 square metres ground. The idea in to extend the scope of the Ribot Act, which enables responsible persons to obtain money advances at low Fates of interest, s0 as to invest in real estate for purposes of habitat tion. 'The authors of the new Bill propose that the State should set de every year a sum which would begin at Frs, 500,000,000 and would slightly "larger subsequent years. This, they say, would enable 100,000' families' a year to borrow money from the State and become the owners of the houses in which they dwell. Tt is calculated that in the course of thirty scarcely be a ff Such a state of very strongly against Communism Bolshevism and other da and would have consequences of a far-reaching nature. Tt would certainly tend to make France the most stable and least politically adventurous country in the world; but whether the project is financial ly sound is another matter.
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