Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-07
BEARDs, HAIR AND WIGS.
Fashions In Hair and Legislation with
Reference to the Rearti

sions IN regard 70 the method OF wearin:
the Ealr and beard are always Interesting
| In the French navy the officers, quarter
masters and sailors are now authorized Il
wear beayds, so Tonga The growth does no
exceed six ceutimeters in length and i
carefully kept. A Belgian Colonel ha;
notified his regiment, which is i'll garrison
! at Client that wearing the hair Capoui
fashion Will no longer DE tolerated, such g
couture being girlish. and eXhOrted the
men TO tend their boards carefully, since il
" compromises the dignity OF the uniform to
wear a beard reSemblingthe hairy fringe OF
AZ ourang -outang's muXle.' 1t is not SO
| long since NJ. MegnIn, the French Minister
| of Finance, authorized the members Of the
Court of Accounts TO wear boards. in Bel
| GUM the Chief Justice of the Court of APP
peals warned q young advocate who was
about to plead case that il was violation
of precedent and propriety for lawyer to
| appear before the tribunal wearing mus
tache, and replied to the young gentle
| mans plea that the mustache was only 4
microscopical one; at is not question of
! quantity, but of principle" However, the
! Court did not insist upon the offenders go
ing out and purging himself of contempt
| forthwith. as he obediently offered to do.
| The wearing of muStaches has become
| common among English barristers, probab-
/ ly to the increased despair of good conserv
| alive lawyers; but the English law wig still
| maintains itself upon the heads of bench
/ and bar, though it cannot boast of any very
great antiquity, and can bestudied in all the
stages OF It's development. The Judges,
Queens Counsel and some other officials
still wear the long full-bottomed wig when
in full dress. The Judges on ordinary
occasions wear short wig, much like what
! nv win ~
the last century, and by all gentlemen in
its middle portion. The barristerS ordi-
| nary wig exactly represents the wig as it
was worn in its last stage Just before the
great French Revolution. The wig as seen,
for instance, in the well-known portrait of
James Boswell, might at this day be worn
in Court by barrister and would hardly
attract notice. The only difference would
be that Boswell's wig was powdered,
whereas the modern legal wig is made of
white horsehair. Examination of collec-
tons of old English portraits reveals the
fact that the legal wig has an antiquity Of
less than two centuries, and falls short by
500 years of being entitled TO claim the
immemorial usage of English law. which
runs from the beginning OF the reign of
Richard |. On the first use OF the wig by
the Judges, they wore 1t as it was worn by
persons of fashion, and as powder came in
they also followed suit. The earlier
Judges are all represented in their portraits
in black caps, Worn over the sergeants Golf
which were afterwards both indicated i'll
the circular depression in the top of the
wig in which might be seen the edges of
the white muslin Golf below the diminished
representative OF the black cap shrunken
TO round black patch. The Manchester
Omnibus Guards were not long ago for
hidden 70 wear must2Ches, though the
prohibition was not extended TO whisk-
ers or boards. No little excitement
was caused i'll Berlin by the action of
the hOtel-keepcrs, who first forbade the
wearing of the mustache by walters
and then extended the prohibition to
all their male house servants. In no we'll
regulated Paris cafe or restaurant would a
garcon be tolerated who wore Il mustache.
There would be no great difficulty eXpe-
rienced in compiling a very fair sized vol
ume of French official regulations concern
ing the beard and Dlustache. In 1872, for
instance, all soldiers were forbidden to wax
their mustaches or 10 twist the ends into
pointed shape, and only few months later
the wearing of the muetache was per-
nitted 10 the grcnadiers alone. This per-
mission was extended in the thirteenth
year Of the Republic to all cavalrymen
except Dragons. In 1922 the circle was
HideDed and all officers in infantry
corps, whether with the grenadiers,
carbineers and Yoltiguers, were allowed
to wea. the coveted appcndage, and ten
years later Soult made the wearing of
the mustache by all soldiers compul-
sorry The prohibition of mustaches in
the navy was always based upon their
tendency to attract salty particles and cause
liberation of the lip. The employees of tie
Bank of France are forbidden 10 wear
nustaehes, aud though there is not any
fixed rule in the Courts, there is a strong
and very general prejudice against listen
ing to advocates who wear them. The
orders Of 1910 and 1922, regulating the
costume Of lawyers at the bar, are silent
upon the subject, and i'll the ancient Par
iiaments the mustachc was worn impair
tally by Judges and advocates. The French
clergy abjure the mustache, with the
exception of missionaries. priests in the
colonial service and chaplains, who wear
it and the beard as well. but this
Introduction is of modern origin,
rs ii The days of Mazarin and Richelieu
the priests wore the royttlc Just as the
courticr5 did, and the natty and nicely po-
luadcd ard powdered mu5tache was until
1888 the inyariable ornament of the stylish
abbG. 1t is not so long since the prisoners
iu the Massachusetts State Prison were al
lowed 10 wear boards, when they desired to
d. so. With the result that three men out Of
five ayailed themselves Of the privilege
Out in hungary, at the city Of Szegedin.
forciblc shaving of the head has been
adopted with success rs a method for the
Encouragement Of tFamps and gypsies. In
China, not long ago, for some reason not
stated, the Government ordered its subjects
to abstain from shaving the head for a
period OF one hundred DAYS. and pun
ished some sixlv residents of the
rjtv of Foochow With q castigation with
bamboo rods and q round fine. after which
their heads we're carefully painted and
vanished. 1t is rather curious by the
way, that the Chinese should regard the
pigtaiI as an almost sacred object. whereas.
in reality. It IS badge of contest, and the
people Of China were known before the
Manchu invasion as the long-haired ma
ton. tits only few months Since Bishop
Ishechc Of Three Rivers, in the adjoining
Dominion. forbade all the Catholic ladies