The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-05-20

AN article and added How we'll some OF the writers IN
The q aarlegy Review woald do H." The Quarterly has
acted upon the HINT and The result is article full OF
striking FACT and pleasing fancy any that has sppeaied
in review Tor years. few OF the writer's iaets aha
readers ;,
Since the world began. The hair has besn universal
vanity. The mistress OF Alciblsdts. no aouo, neps
that magnificent dandy waiting many nan noui "hiie
she The golden grasshoipef ana "neis 10 .he
modern youth who fails 10 give his cufs ine moving
touch" ere he ventures into the glare oil baioom gas
In Pufitanic fines, a mans religion was determined
by the state OF The poll IN sui darker ages, long hair
the sgn OF freedom ana cropped mead me marx OF
slave No wonder the hair has had political and re-
ligous significance Tor II IS The only part OF his body
which man shape and carve to has fancy
haoe l,,,udss of PuIone and
ousneyng southwark the color OF the peoples hair
deepens with every ,aalle-Iom the Norwegian fiaxen
10 the blue black OF lie nations the shores OF the Med
iierranesn sea Each hair is tube filled with fluid,
and the color OF that fluid is the color OF the hair The
reason why black hair is black is simply because its
cooring fluid contains charcoal (caIbon) than that
Of any other and hair becomes gray This fountain OF
It's lie and beauty dries az. Hence The hair may, and
does sometimes, become gray IN an hour. As rule,
the xher the color ol The hair. the hner lis quality An
eminent German un,ewe the labor OF count
ing the number OF hairs in heads OF four different eolors
la blonde he found one hundred and forty tbon,
sand hairs in q brown one hundred and nine thousand
four hundsed and forty IN black, one hundred ana
two Thousand nine hundred and sixtytwo IN a red,
eighty eight thousand seven hundred and ioyhe iouI
scaps being about equal IN weight. From Their way
ing, sken beauty poets and artists delight IN golden
tesses Shakespeare mentions black HAIR but twice IN
all his writings while bis aus 10 hair OF lighter
shades are 10 be counted by The In the London
National Gallery there not black haired female
head though The beads are exceedingly numerous fet
The fashionable shade Tor hair has deepened OF late years
la The last century golden hair sold as iayor by
dealers 10 their most important customers at two dol
lars ounce-neatly TWICE the pfice OF silver The
dark shades IN vogue are procured IN The SCUM oil
France, where the girls eagerly offer their uxu-
rant locks TO the ha-dsae shears for twenty
agaudy cotton handkerchief For light hair the reaper
of inck In "A alr nero
is IN" can Tell by The smell alone, whether sheai
OF hair grew French, English, Irish, Scotch WEIGH
or German heads
Women seldom become bald, because there is a
larger deposit Of ial in the female SCALP than in the
male but their hair becomes gray as early IN lie as
tina, OF the other Hence, says our willy REVIEW.
err .he glossy rnsles which The poor peasant girl OF
Tours parted with few SOUS nes-egg towards
her dowry have doubtless aided in procuring suitable
hepma,e for some blue spnsier fast dowager OF May
fair" The consulted his halter upon the sub
eci OF mems badness. That fortunate man-foEinnale
M having 30 delightful customer-ex pressed the opn-
that The why men become bald at an earile
age now than forty ears ago is The general OF sik
hats which keep The head a, higher temperature thar
beaver ones. WheIeupon the reviewer achieves the
capital observalion that we are, them sacrificing ou
natural nap in order that The beaver may recover
his"
History has much 10 say upon the hair and beard. In
the middle ages long hair highly esteemed and was
much worn among The gentle classes though The clergy
denounced il vanity, and EVEN as a" mortal sin.
When Francs 1 was wounded in the head and was, IN
consequence, Obliged TO be cropped all the French couT
tiers in compliment 10 their king, submitted 10 The shears
and short ha became for time, the fashion thoughou
Europe In EogaBd short hair came IN with the Reor
nation In the OF the TudoTs, both men and woner
wore Their hair short winch gives to The portraits Of ina
Iesiod bard disas eeabe effect As The hair shor,ese'
the beard allowed 10 grow and there has never beer
time when The hair and beard were both worn long
With the Stuarls every knows long hair egainet
Its old ascendency and the beard diminished though The
Punans inveghed against the flowing curs OF the Cav
alters with than the ferocty OF the earlier priests
The reign of Louis Kill of France was the time wher
perukes were inve6led-.hose lofty and solemn monu
ments OF human iollS-a period IN the hisory OF han
which the reviewer approaches with awe Louis XII
appears would his hair long from childhood and
enable those oil his courers TO whom Nature
had been liberal lis bestowmen' OF hair, TO Initiate
very udcrous entry in Pepy Diary. November 81. 1868
marks the introduction OF these poHentous
into England:
Home BY and BY, comes Chapman, the perriwig- ma
ker, and upon my liking II Qhe wgl without more ado
went up, and then be cut OF my bair which went I
little TO my heart al present 10 part with II; but benl
over, and my perwig on, paid hun three pounds, AM
away went he With my hair 10 make up another OF
and l. by and by, went abroad alter had caused all my
maids 10 look uponil and they concluded II do become
me. though Jane was nightly troubled for my parting
with my own hair, and 60 was Besse
November S, 1863 Lords Day.-To church where
found that my coming III perrtw1g did not prove 81
strange afraid would Tor thought that all the
church would presently have cast their eyes upon me
but find no such things"
grown such that "tne face appeared only small
pmpIe in Tie midst Of vast of hair" peuwig
makers the great architects oil tnS triumphant Of
perukes. had Their carriages, veTled wants. and grand
hotels, and important percentages 10 the State
Queen Marie Antolnetie herself invented osGW
which represented all the efnemens OF landscape gar
denhg From The altitude Of the head dresses in 1878
II found that they intercepted the view OF spectators
IN the rear OF them the opera, and the director wal
obliged 10 refuse admiiance 10 the amphlhcae those
persons who wore such inmodeate ooif lures. Such
the expended these tremendous besddesses, ant
such the detail required in their different stages tina
ladies' OF quality Often under the hands OF The artist
the entire day. Thus. when they had 10 attend enter
tanments on succeeding evenings they were forced Z
sleep in aim chairs for lear Of endsngerDg the hnsh
the coifwsg The female head-dress, having now ar
rived ts most Alpine elevation, suddenly ioppled owe
and FELL by the mere accident OF the Queens hair com
ing OF during her accouchement The court, out OF com
pment TO her Majesty, the hair fenfant; other
followed, and the fashion was al an end
Passing over much which should like TO pick fep
morsels from but cannot Tor lack OF space come TO
humorous passage upon the British whskcT," which
must copy without condensation
"Of the modern beard and whiskers," says the Re
view, we desire 10 write respectfully. A mutton oho
10 have suggested the form OF the substantial Brit
ish whsker Out OF this simple design countless vare
ties of forms have ARISEN How have they arisen Ca
any one give an account OF his whskers from ihei
birth upwards To our mind there Is nothing mys
FERROUS than the growth OF this manly appendage. D'
any far. seeing youth deliberately design his own whs
kerr Was there ever known a bobbledehoy who saw
great future 10 his silken down, and determined e
train in the way It should go! We think not, British
whiskers in truth, have grown up like all the great IN
suutioR Of the country, noselessly aRd persstenuy-a
outward expression, as the Germans wood say, OF III
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