Tokyo, Aug. 25.
Bobbed heads are synonymous with morals and lack of self-respect! declare 500 hair dressers of Tokyo who have put on record that bobbed tes de-praying to all the gods and goddesses in the ow, on the land and in the wa above to preserve Japanese wor en from. this new foreign devil ment."
The aid of unseen forces wa sought because of the increasing number of Japanese gids who are forsaking the coiffure of Old Japan and are going in with all earnes ness for bobbed tress heads, Mary Pickford curls and that method of doing up the hair whereby ears, both big and smal are coyly concealed.
A regular religious ceremony was gone through during which ssu plications were made to the deity to rescue this land of the gods from such contamination. Next follow. ed harangues in which imprecation were called upon the "traitorous young women who have forsaken
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