Parliament's Week

The Lords:

P: Passed through second reading the Equal Franchise ("Votes for Flappers") Bill, after a stormy session during which Earl Balfour warned: "If you do not pass this bill you will wake up to find . . . that the House of Lords has been abolished."

P: Polled 3 to 1 in favor of unbobbed hair for women in a straw vote decorously conducted by the Conservative Evening Standard. In opposing the concensus of his fellow peers, William Frederick Le- Poer-Trench, Earl of Clancarty doggerelled:

"Long hair no, bobbed no go, Eton crop yah hoo, severe shingle righto."

The Commons:

P: Dozed through a torpid week during which Miss Megan Lloyd George--large daughter of small David--was selected by the Liberal party machine to stand for election to Parliament in the constituency of Anglesey, called "The Mother of Wales."

Miss Lloyd George's political debut was balked by Colonel Lawrence Williams who had expected to be allowed to stand for Anglesey and wrathfully declared: "I've been stabbed in the back! . . . Untold harm has been done to Liberalism by the unfair tactics of certain people in supporting a certain young woman."

Said the Certain Young Woman: "Poor man!"

P: Straw voted against bobbed hair 232 to 217, thus confirming the judgment of the Lords (see above).

Philosophized the Lt. Col. Reginald V. K. Applin: "A woman loses her dignity when she parts with her hair. The beautiful story of Lady Godiva becomes coarse and unthinkable if we try to imagine her as riding without her long golden locks."