Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Most of us are concerned about our hair. After our health, our families, our bank account balance, if any, hair seems to be high on the list of important things that must be dealt with just about every day.

If we are not washing it, curling it, cutting it, dying it, bleaching it, perming it, combing it, brushing it or blow-drying it, we are cursing it. (everybody probably has a bad hair day once in awhile) I knew a teen-ager who even laid her long hair on an ironing board and proceeded to iron out the natural curl.

Young people upon noticing a white hair, pull it out of their scalps without a thought. But older folks do not want to lose a single hair, no matter what color it is.

If you are as old as me, you can recall Veronica Lake, the movie star who wore her very long blonde hair over one eye. I think it is uncomfortable to look at someone who is hiding one of their eyes. Maybe one was brown and the other was blue, It happens.

Then there was Mitzi Gaynor, singer, dancer, actress, who right on the stage "washed that man right out of her hair and sent him on his way." Mitzi's hair was cut very short so it was easy to do, but long-haired girls would have a hard time doing that. That reminds me of the story of Rapunsel who had very, very long hair. She was a prisoner in a tower in days of old, and she would sing beautiful songs that filled the air night and day. Of course, a prince rode by one day and heard her sing. " I must have her", he thought. So he asked her to let down her golden hair so that he could climb up to her using it for a ladder night after night. Ouch!! You'd think, being a prince, he would ask the king, his father, for a long ladder, but he didn't even think of that.

I read that the Walt Disney Studio is coming out with a new cartoon this coming November with a new, improved version of this old fairy tale. It will appeal to boys this time instead of to only girls, so it will have sword fights and violent stuff like that to make it exciting. I read that the golden hair of the girl in the new movie is going to be seventy feet long. That must be a misprint, but I can hardly wait to see this new Disney movie! I don't mind a little violence as long as the best man rescues and wins the damsel and agrees to pay her hair-dresser's fees for life.