that human being who crossed her path? That is the question. What interest have people generally in knowing the sex of the human beings around them? Is this not a private, intimate matter?

It is curious to see how indignant some of the elderly people get at seeing some of these boys. Often they cannot control themselves. In a post office I saw a young man with long hair bring a parcel to the counter. An elderly man, who was also mailing some parcels, tried with all his might to insult him. The young man did not say a word. The elderly man cried that the young man ought to have all his hair cut off and his scalp painted with red lead so that everybody could ridicule him. What an idea in the brain of this surely otherwise good citizen! Some- times we have to ask with worry what sort of people are walking in our streets in their nice conventional clothes! What destructive thoughts do they harbor in their brains!

In the newspapers the discussions are heated. We discuss equality between the sexes, but as soon as actual consequences of this discus- sion are showing, we are ready to cry at the top of our voice. Some women are leading the defence of the new movement and ask: Have we not succeeded more in our attacks on the man's world, the master sex, when it is still disgraceful and degrading, yes, almost perverted, for a boy or a man to show himself wearing some of the feminine at- tributes, while we women quite naturally and tacitly accept a girl in men's trousers, men's shirt, men's vest, etc. and with a boy's hair cut? We call her brave and fresh, a real tomboy, a bold boygirl, the par- ents say. But have we ever heard some parents who are proud of their "sweet girlboy" or their "nice little sissy?"

In this way the discussion goes on-some are furious and say that a thrashing is the only thing that helps. Young men are dismissed and lose their jobs because they wear their hair long. The government has to discuss weather a young teacher-aspirant who is the best in his work, may take a post as a teacher at a public school, if he does not go to the barber shop and cut off his long hair. The health authorities have suddenly found that men with long hair cannot work in the food industry. The long hair can spoil and infect the products. What about the girls then? Shall they now cut off their hair and treat their scalp with a razor? The long hair is said to be dangerous for the boys them- selves when they work. They can be hurt at the machines, etc. What an excuse! What about girls—and what about equality between the sexes? Why not the same restrictions for women in industry?

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