Foreign News: Naval Coiffeur

At the pleasure of Lord Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet, one Jonah Uden, a marine aboard the Battle cruiser H. M. S. Renown, was ordered recently to London and there instructed in the art of female hairdressing by a Court coiffeur. Last week Jonah Uden was pronounced capable of waving, marcelling, bobbing, shingling and shampooing. Proficient, he was ordered back to the Renown, where no woman is.

Why?

The Admiralty announced that the inflexible rule forbidding the presence of a female on a British ship of war is to be relaxed when T. R. H....

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