That would be terrible!... An eminent biologist has just affirmed - I come across this impressive information in our Brussels colleague, why not? - that if women continue, for two or three generations, to wear their hair short, they will grow beards!
The reasons he gives for this are plausible. "It is a fact," he says, "that most men with a full beard are bald, bald as an ass as if their hair had fallen into this beard. It is another fact, which seems even more convincing, that most people of the weaker sex whose malicious or overly generous nature has decorated their lips with an abundant pair of moustaches, or their chin with a vegetation of virile appearance, generally have poor hair."
I say that these arguments are plausible; not that they are convincing, I allow myself to point out that the Merovingian kings, those precisely who were called "hairy", are usually represented with a large beard, I say that it is common knowledge that, throughout Eastern Europe, for more than a thousand years, Jewish women, from the moment they get married, have cut their hair to replace it with a horsehair wig, and that it does not appear that their daughters, our contemporaries, have become more bearded because of this.
And I dare, yes, I dare to suspect the biologist in question of preferring long hair to short hair in women, and then of inventing stories so that they will start wearing it again according to his taste. I believe I should warn him that he will have no success.

Women will say: "This misfortune only threatens our great-granddaughters? Too bad for them! As long as we don't have to shave, we don't care! For the moment, we follow fashion." Because fashion is a tyrant whom women and even men obey without question, through all obstacles, despite all threats, torture and death!
But the day when the first beautiful lady, whether the Queen of England or a model, appears on a racecourse or at the theater with a new and becoming hat requiring a bun, all women, I don't know how, fifteen days later, will wear this hat and this bun.

Pierre MILLE.