"It is a kind of pity ish to have hair shingled," an Amorict book said years' ago.
It ie still more pity ish that women cannot have their hair cut by artists for sixpence, as "Punch" said, our mothers and' grandmothers could in 1883. To wear short hair was a: sign of brains in the beginning, but the brainless wore it later; now the fashion seems universal ho int pioneers of short hair, all mind and lectual lady of 1883 was one of the culture," her hair was cut and lefts and to complete the ychome she often adopted the man-like ulster. Hair dressers then neglected to seize their opportunity. They cut the hair of their patronesses with as little emotion as if they had been men, and barged them the same price.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.