St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-28

to be priests, because they had both their
face and lips shaven.'' Saint Wulston, the
Bishop of Worcester, used to preach against
long hair as immoral, criminal and beastly.
He carried a penknife in his pocket, and
whenever anybody offending in this respect
knelt before him for his blessing, he whip
ped it out slyly, cut handful, and throwing
it in his face, told him to cut off the rest or
he would 90 to hell. But men have been
willing to run the risk of damnation for the
sake of curls and long hair. In the time of
Henry l.. Anselm, the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, issued his decree of outlawry against
offenders, but the court patronized long
hair, and the bulls and Nominations of the
Archbishop were useless and idle. The king
and his mobiles wore their hair in long ring
lets down their backs and shoulders. Serlo,
the kings chaplain, once preached sermon
on the offense, and so eloquent did he grow
that the king wept. Determining to strike
while the iron was hot, he cut off the long
locks of the king and some of his mobiles, but
in six months they were as bold sinners as
ever.
At last nobleman dreamed as he lay on
his bed that the devil sprang upon him and
tried to choke him with his own hair. He
started in his fright and actually found that
he had great quantity of his hair in his
mouth. Conscience stricken he considered
this warning from heaven. The clergy
heard the story and made the most of it. The
fashions changed, and thus the dream OF
dandy was more efficacous in effecting what
the prayers of the preachers could not accom-
plish, In the times of the Roundheads and
cavaliers bald head covered piety, and long
white locks were the abode of vice and in
iquity.
Peter the Greats interference in 1705 in
the matter of mere hair was the most daring
as well as the most successful. Then the
beard was condemned by every country in
Europe, which was all the more reason why
the Russians hung to theirs more fondly as
a mark to distinguish them from foreigners,
whom they hated. Peter resolved that they
should be shaver, aud the edict went forth
not only that the mobiles but serfs should
shave. A certain time was given the people
and if they wore boards after that fine of
100 roubles was imposed Priests and serfs
retained theirs on the payment of a copeck
day. Great discomfort prevailed. but the
people thought it was wiser to cut off their
boards than to run the risk of offending
king who would as soon cut off their heads.
GOLDEN HAIR.
Red hair, golden, auburn and bronze red
hair have ragged at different periods in the
worlds history. Venus was golden haired.
The great Italian painters, Titian,, Paul Yer
onese, Giorgione, all drew golden haired
beauties In the days of Titan, says Vercel
Ii, the bellies used to sit out on the house tops
to catch the golden flashes of the sun on
their damp tresses. The Greek women many
years before had fondness for golden hair,
toll If Wh IN hu
his wife out of doors because she came home
one day with her hair stained yellow. After
the conquest of Gaul and Germany, and
when the tawny-haired captives appeared at
Rome, they quite set the fashion of red hair
again. An old rhyme used to rum
Heigh for the apple, and no for the pear
Bnt give me the pretty girl with the red hair.
Shakespeare delighted in golden hair. "Her
sunny locks hung on her temples like the
golden fleece" says Bassanio, in describing
Portia in the Merchant of Venice" In the
'"Two Gentlemen of Verona" Julia says Of
Silvia and herself: "Her hair is auburn;
mine is perfect yellow" Black hair, strange
to say, the great bard only mentions twice
in all his plays, showing that he imagined
light hair to be the peculiar attribute OF soft,
delicate women. OF Milto, the beautiful
Ionian, we hear; HHer hair was yellow; the
locks a little curled." Helen, of Troy, Pop
pea Sabina and Lucaetia Borgia had beauti-
full golden hair. Leigh Hunt, in one Of his
essays, says that the hair of Lucretia was
golden. He had in his possession lock of
this celebrated woman's hair, presented him
b Y Lord Byron, who obtained it from lock
of her hair preserved in the Ambrosean Lii
brary at Milan. ''If ever hair was golden"
he says, ''ths is. 1t is not red; it is not
yellow: it is not auburn. 1t is golden and
nothing else; and, though natural looking, |
must have had surprising appearance in
the mass" Many great men had golden
hair. Alexander the Great, Demetrius, Of
Macedonia, Scyla the Dictator, Commodus,
Camoens, Tasso and Alfiera. Cervantes had
yellow hair and brown beard, and when
Commodus walked in the sun his locks gilt
tered like fire, so that some believed his hair
had been sprinkled with gold dust Mary,
Queen of Scots, covered her hair with artifi-
cial golden locks.
Some women have hair long enough when
uncombed to fall to their feet. Byron had
such one in mind when he wrote:
Her clustering hair, whose longer locks were
rolled
In braids behind, and though her stature were
Even the highest for the female mold,
They nearly reached the heel
Boadicea, the brave queen of the islanders
of Great Britain, is described as having long
hair, flowing over her shoulders and reach
ing below the middle Of her back. Mrs. JEFF
ferson Davis has hair which, though sprink
led with white, trails six inches on the
ground. Nature is queer in some of her
freaks concerning hair. The Cafusos, who
are cross between the native American In
dams of Brazil and the negroes from Africa,
have the most singular hair in the world. 1t
is a mean between the long, straight, stiff
hair of the Indian and the curly hair of the
negro 1t arises perpendicularly from the
forehead to the height of foot and half,
thus forming prodigious and ugly peruke.
The Pauuans of New Guinea have hair some
what similar. They are mixed breed,
formed by cross between Malays and ne
groes They wear their frizzed hair so much
pushed up around their heads that its cir
conference measures about three feet, and
when released two feet and half. Cincaa-
natl Conaaaercidl- Gazette.
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