Eve Goes into the Beauty Business.

Eve, Evelyn, and Evelinda find they simply must do something to pay for the rise in hats consequent on these horrid war taxes—

—so, with a view to keeping some of the new officers up to old form, they start a beauty barber’s shop for the blue and khaki—

—which is an immense success from the day of opening. Isn’t Adam on the right getting a dinky frothing?

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Manicuring is simply a screaming success. Two operators are compulsory. For Eve cannot trust Evelyn or Evelinda, and neither of them can trust Eve alone in the dim recesses of that department

But success brings as usual trials in its train, and now Aunt Martha insists on having her hair curled there daily—

—while Uncle Fred is a very glutton for having his hair cut

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