Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-06
HUNG BY A W0MAN'S HAIR
MADE RICH BY ONE. AND A ROPE
OF WOBIEN'S LOCKS.

From. the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Poets have always shown Keen ap-
nreciation of woman's browning glory
That little, grand man Pope wrote:
mir tresses mans imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws Us with u single halr'
The particular hair which suggested
this pretty figure Of speech could scarce
10 have ornamented the head of the au-
thor's adored Lady Mary Wortley Mon
taqu. for 1t was a notorious TACT tnaJ the
learned lady entertained aprotOunu pIeJu-
dice against brush ana comb, ana was
wont TO conceal her tangled tresses
meath a hideOus cap. Dryden SAID OF the
one hundred and fifty thousanuJh parI Ol
a. woman's capillary attractions;
She knows her man, and when you rant and
can draw You TO her with single hair.
Carew added his testimony in the lines:
These curious locks. so aptly entertwined,
Whose sUery hair soul doth bind.
That a solitary hair might prove as fatal
ina mans neck as to his soul was shown
in the execution of the California muir
derer. Wasielewsky, few years ago:
Judge Belden, grim satirist, sentenced
the criminal and then suggested that JUS
lice should be made peculiarly retribuJive
nv an original method OF hanging, in
which a long black hair from the head OF
the woman so brutally murdered, and
which had figured in the testimony, should
be the final means when cut Of letting the
weight drop and sending the murderer In
to eternity.
A single hair in the hands OF detective
or on the shoulder Of mans coat mas
been we'll utilized in the tragedy and
comedy of real and mimic life-as in
stanced in France this very month, when
one white hair from the head of his victim
was the convincing testimony that sent
the murderer Delacourt to his doom; and
a little comedy by Octave Feuillet called !:
4sFor One Fair Hair'' has been revived
with success, the thread of the story be-
ing literally in this case a single golden
hair.
Do You remember that master touch Of
a master hand-pOOr "Fantine" selling
her splendid locks that her child might
nave bread? l have known similar in
stances in real life, and among the hum
dred tons of human hair that are bought
and sold each year in European marts,
how many bundles of silky hair lying
among the cOarser grades from PEASANTS
heads breathe of a silent sacrifice? For
lust as much as the hand and ear does
the hair betray good blood and fine breed
ing.
That luxurious mass of long, blue
black perfumed hair-'How came it
here$' | asked the swarthy foreman,
burnt under the Southern sun.
lit was cut off the head Of young wife,
madam, whose husband left her here ill
abandoned. She wished it be sold to pay
for her coffin, and she knew that dealers
10 not like to buy dead hair any more
Than they do feathers plucked from dead
gOose,'' he concluded in a most matter of
fact way. Most pathetic OF all was a
package of soft. lustrous, silvery-white
hair-a mothers sacrifice, no dOubt-and
which, OH grim Fatel will bring higher
price than even the heavy faxen braids
at their side.
For the rest, for those pounds upon
pounds of brown and yellow and black
tresses, one can look at them without
emotion, for, like the Sleeps wool, they
we're grown only to be shorn and for the
sake of few silver coins and gorgeous
'kerchief that tempers the wind to the
peasant lambs of Auvergne and Brittany.
Two women. both celebrated in their
way, deliberately cut on their hair, Char
lOtte COrday was one. She had no trinkets
nor mementoes to distribute among her
friends, so she tOrestalled the grim valet
Of the gullotine and cut of her beautiful
hair herself, sending locks of it to her
family and dearest friends.
OF that proud, arrogant and ambitious
woman. Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough,
we might say she cut off her hair instead
Of nose to spite her face The Duchess
had very splendid hair, unusual in length
and abundance, and exceedingly fine. The
great soldier, her husband, who was very
much in love with her, entertained for it
Rprofound admiration, and was won't to
say he loved every hair on her head. In
deed it was his delight TO unblnd her
tresses himself and let them fall in lux
urious cloud about her stately person.
Nevertheless, the noble couple INDUCED
at various times in very ignObe domestic
battles, in which the warrior was apt to
get wOrsted; but on one occasion he did
come out victorious, which so chagrined
and enraged the Duchess that she deter
mined 10 do what she thought would out
rage her husbands feelings the mOst-sO
going to her tiring-roOm she took a sharp
knife and slashed her superb HAIR of.
Then there was the Countess of Suffolk,
who welded poverty and Mr.. IbOwaId.
One must admire her for her pluck, as well
Z as her beauty. When it became necessa-
& r for the couple to give state banquet,
though their money chest was empty, the
Countess did not hesitate 10 sell her eX-
qusitely fine and fair hair, of which she
rad an abundance. Twenty pounds ($100)
vas the sum she received for it, and that,
doubtless, provided a right royal feast in
those days of cheapness and plenty.
Women in prison, even under fe sem
lence, never give up all attempts TO en-
belllsh themselves, and, | am told by the
officials, md enjoyment not only in CIV
pg their hair extra attention, but even
N scraping the whitewash of the walls
with their fingeT-nails to use as powder,
and substitute red ink for rouge.
AT South hensingtOn is exhibited an
extraordinary coil of rope, weighing six
hundred pounds and eight hundred feet
long, made in Japan by order of a Tycoon
whose name ! cannot undertake TO spell
rom memory. During six years all the
spare hair" OF one entire province was
consumed in its manufacture, but at the
lime II was completed an English no.
beman travelling through the country was
so struck with 1t as curiosity that he
inferred to send in exchange for 1t the finest
steel cable that could be made in En-
gland. His Japanese Majesty accepted
he offer, and the hairy hawser was after
ward presented 10 the great Kensington
collection.
In concluding this article must men
ion the most superb head Of hair ever seen
n this country-that Of the Marquise
conception Montalyo de Quene of Cuba
very beautiful woman, who has made
occasional visits 10 New York. OF eX-
quisitely modelled figure and tall, her ap-
parent height is added to by massive
laits Of hair wound tightly about her
nelly shaped head in the form OF a coro-
90 and fastened with a small diamond
agger. When these plaits are unwOund