The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05

persistently and tenderly, comb in hand,
Strengthening out few hairs at time.
1t was two months before she left the
hospital, and by that time, think, she
was recOnciled to the natural color of
her hair"
The darker and grosser passions are
typified BY artists and authors. as rule,
in brunette women, the good angels,
whether of the material or spiritual
world, being crowned with a glory of
| golden hair, and even the little cheru-
bim have halo of yellow rings
round their plump faces. But this point
opens up too broad field of discussion,
and leads one away from some curious
facts in relation to the various uses that
woman's hair haS been put to beside
that of decorating the head of her own
kind and furnishing material for senti-
mental watch-chains, painful memorial
pictures and agonizing jewelry.
The Japanese, for example, have
shown particular ingenuity in utilizing
it, and on grand scale. The women
| of whole provinces are shorn to manu-
facture a single article that requires
the strength, durability and elasticity
only to be found in the human hair. In
the construction of the splendid Budd-
hist temple at Kioto, which cost, by the
way, over three million dollars, whole
ton of ropes made of hair, furnished by
devout women as their contribution,
was used in the construction of the
building.
At South Kensington is exhibited an
extraordinary coil of rope, weighing
six hundred pounds and eight hundred
feet long, made in Japan by order
of Tycoon whose name l can not
undertake to spell from memory.
During six years all the ''spare hair
of one entire province was consumed
in its manufacture, but at the time it
was completed an English nobleman
travelling through the country was SO
struck with it as curiosity that he
offered in exchange for it the finest steel
cable that could be made in England.
Ms Japanese Majesty accepted the
offer. and the hairy hawser was after
ward presented to the great Kensington
collection.
The idea that savages are the only
members of the human family that
delight in wearing hair as an ornament
is quite mistake. Lace made of it is
an ancient invention. In the "Cheva-
lier aux Y Eppes'' beautiful lady de-
mands of the King Ris silken mantle
fringed with the boards of nine con-
quered Kings, and hemmed with that
of King Arthur, who was yet to con-
quOr.
Queen Elizabeth valued highly her
''pointe tresse" lace. made of silvery
white hair. and the most expensive and
rare of its kind, woven, by the way, en-
tirely in BedfOrdshire; hence Turner's
allusion "And Bedford's matrons wove
their snowy locks" The Countess of
LennoX presented her beautiful daugh-
ter-in-law, Mary Queen of Scots. with
a ''pointe tresse' collar made from her
own hair and woven BY her own fin
gers-a tribute of affection which his
torians claims would scarcely have been
given had the Countess believed her
fair daughter-in-law guilty of Darnley's
dreadful death.
In concluding this article I must men,
ton the most superb head of hair ever
seen in this cOuntry-that of the Mar
quese Conception Montalvo de Quene
OF CUBA very beautiful woman. who
has made occasional visits to New York.
OF eXguisitely modelled figure and tall,
her apparent height is added to by mass
i've plaits of hair wound tightly about
her iinely-shaped head in the form of a
coronet and fastened with a small dia-
mond dagger. When these plaits are
unwound they fall in shimmcring cas-
ca6e of furnished brown tn tho floor
eighty inches in len2th-over two yards
and as fine as spool silk. Ones pen
rather fingers on the picture of the Mar
quise, for her hair was only one of her
personal charms. Her skin was as soft |
and pure as a garden rose: her large |
dark eyes had the peculiar freshness
and open look of child's: her mouth |
was lovely enough to drop nothing but
pearls and rubies, which i am sure it !
did in the shape of pretty speeches. and
her manners befitted Princess Charm |
Enquirer.