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

Poets have always shown a keen APP
probation of woman's browning glory.
That little. grand man Pope wrote:
Fair tresses mans imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with single hair"
The particular hair which suggests
this pretty figure OF speech could scarce
~ have ornamental the head of the
authors adored Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu, for it was notorious fact
that the learned lady entertained pro-
found prejudice against brush and comb.
and was wont to conceal her tangled
treSses meath a hideous cap. DRYDEN
said of the one hundred and fifty thou
'sandth part of wOman's capillary at
fractions:
She knows her man, and when you rant and
swear,
Can draw you to her with a single hair"
Carew added his testimony in the
lines
''1hese curious locks. SO APPLY en.w;ned,
Whose ere1y hair soul doth bind"
That a solitary hair might prove as
fatal to a mans neck as to his soul was
shown in the execution of the California
murderer, Waslelewsky, few years
ago. Judge Belden, a grim satirjst,
sentenced the criminal and then suy.
geSted that justice should be made Pc
eculiarly retributive by an original
method of hanging. in which 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
into eternity.
In the profession of quackery, it is
often made the foundation of incanta-
tons and love charms, as the hair may
come from the head of the loved or
hated one.
In olden times, when a monarch of
France cOndescended to pluck a hair
from his royal head and bestow it upon
a loyal subject, it was sure indication
of further and more substantial benefits
70 come
We are told, both on scientific and
scriptural authority. that the very hairs
on our head are all numbered. DR..
Winslow, after many laborious expert
mentS. asserts that the average num-
der of hairs to the square inch on a
woman's head is by actual count one
thousand and siNty-siN: on the whole
head from one hundred and thirty thou
sand to one hundred and fifty thousand.
Take this number of hairs en- masse, let
it be long, fine, lustrous and pure in
color. and whether it falls straight as an
Indians in unbroken folds, or in curling,
clustering masses, or yet in graceful,
.shimmering waves and ripples, it does.
indeed form really glorious ornament.
and one that any woman is 10th to lose
or part with.
Do YOU remember that master-touch
of a master hand-poor Famine" SELL
ing her splendid locks that her child
might have bread? have known SINH
lar instances in real life; and among
the hundred 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 silent sacri-
fee? For just as much as the hand and
ear does the hair betray good blood and
fine breeding.
In the great port of Marseilles one
has capital chance to test his acute
ness by examining the piles of hair col
lec:ed for expectation.
That bundle of FURNISHED golden
locks, breathing faint odor of violets,
YOU feel sure is from the head of some
young virgin but yesterday made 1.-THE
bic of Christ" for the Church, like
the guillotine. demands woman's hair
before she quits .'this world" Here is
q package of shining chestnut curls.
with such a look of life about them that
it is easy to imagine the dark blue eyes.
the pink and dimpled face they once en-
wreathed-cut of. perhaps, to keep a
roguish lover from prison. That luxur-
ious mass of long, blue-black perfumed
hair. How came it here| / asked
the swarthy foreman, burnt under the
Southern sun.
sit was cut off the head Of young
wife, madam, whose husband left her
here ill-sbandoned. She wished it to