Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-11

Montagu, for 1t was notorious fact
that the learned lady entertained a
profound prejudice against brush and
comb, and was wont to- conceal her
tangled tresses meath q hideous cap
Dryden said of the one hundred and
fifth thousandth part of 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 entertained,
| Whose every hair a soul doth bind.
That q solitary hair might prove as
fatal to mans neck as to his soul
/ was shown in the execution of the
California murderer, Wasielewsky, a
few years ago. Judge Belden, grim
satirist, sentenced the criminal and
then suggested that justice should be
made peculiarly retributive by an Or
iginal 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 into eternity.
A single hair In the hands of a de-
tective or On the shoulder of mans
coat has been well utilized in the trag-
edy and comedy of the real and MIN
ic life-as instanced in France this
very month, when one white hair
from the head of his victim was the
convincing testimony that sent the
murder Deleceurt to his doom; and a
little comedy by Octave Feurliet, call
ed For One Fair Hair" has been re-
vived vita success, the thread of the
story being literally in this case q
single golden hair.
Two women, both celebrated in
their way, deliberately cut off their
hair. Charlotte Corday was one. She
had no trinkets nor momentos to dis
tribute among her friends, SO she fore.
stalled the grim valet of the gullotine
and cut off her beautiful hair herself,
sending locks of it to her family and
dearest friends.
Of that proud, arrogant, and am
bilious woman, Sarah, Duchess OF
Marlborough, we might say she cut
off her hair instead of her nose tG
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, en-
terta1ned for it profund ad
miration, and was wont to say
he loved every hair on her head
Indeed, it was his delight to unbino
her tresses himself and LET them fall
in a luxurious cloud about her stately
person. Nevertheless, the noble coup
lie INDUCED at various times in very
igno5le domestic battles, in which
the warrior was apt to get worsted
but On one occasion he did come ou
victorious, which so chagrined anC
enraged the Duchess tina she deter
mined TO do what she thought would
outrage Der husbands feelings the
most, So, going to her retiring room
she took a sharp knife and slasheC
off her superb hair.
Then there was the Countess O.
Suffolk, who welded poverty anC
Mr.. Howard. One must admire he
for her pluck as we'll as her beauty
When it became necessary for The
couple to give state banquet, though
the money chest was empty, tn,
Countess did not hesitate to sell ex
quisltly fine and fair hair, of which
she had an abundance. Invent,
pounds was the sum she received fol
it, and that, doubtless, provided ;
right royal feast in those days o
cheapness and plenty.