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

| uead nalr any more tcan they do featfl-
ers plucked from dead GOOSE" he
concluded in a most matter-of-fact way.
Most pathetic of all was package OF
soft, lustrous, silvery-white hair-a
mother sacrifice. nodOubt-and which,
oh. grim Fate! 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, take the sleeps wool,
they were grown only to be shorn and for
the sake of few silver coins and gorge
GUS 'kerchief that tempers the wind to
the peasant lambs of Auvergne and
Brittany.
Two women, both celebrated in their
way. deliberately cut off their hair.
Charlotte COrday was one. She had no
trinkets nor mementOes to distribute
among her friends, so she fOrestalled
the grim valet of the guillOtine and cut
off her beautiful hair herself. sending
locks of it to her family and nearest
| friends.
OF that proud arrogant and ambitious
woman, Sarah, Duchess of MarlbOr-
ough, we might say she cut off her hair
instead of nose to spite her face. To be
more explanatory, it seems that the
Duchess had very splendid hair, un-
usual in length and abundance. and ex-
ceedingly fine. The great soldier. her
husband, who was very much in love
with her entertained for it a profound
| admiration, and was wont to saw he
loved every hair on her head. Indeed,
it was his delight to unbind her tresses
himself and let them fall in a luxurious
cloud about her stately person. Never
theless, the noble couple INDUCED at
times in very ignoble 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 de-
termined to do what she thought would
outrage her husbands feelings the
most-so going to her tiring-rOom she
took sharp knife and slashed her su-
perb hair off.
As the last locks fell to the floor the
Duke entered with a jewelled peace
offering in his hand. At glance he
took in the situation, and then. without
word, he stopped down. gathered up
one long tress from the Singing h cap
upon the ground. placed it in his bosom,
and, with the tears rolling down his
bronzed face, silently passed out. 1t is
said this was the last violent quarrel the
ducal pair ever had.
Then there was the Countess of Suf-
folk. who. welded poverty and Mr..
opI ret Il hp, g., h.,,.
pluck, as well as her beauty. When it
became necessary for the couple to give
state banquet, though their money
chest was empty. the Countess did not
hesitate to sell her exquisitely fine and
fair hair, of which she had an abund-
ance. Twenty pounds Zone hundred
doliars) was the sum she received for
it, and that, doubtless. provided right
royal feast in those days of cheapness
and plenty.
An old copy of the Protestant Afer-
cury tells of Lancashire lass who
sacrificed her tresSes for even more
notable object. She was in love with a
worthy youth. who heSitated to return
her affection. as she was poor and her
friends would not give her the portion
of fifty pounds that the mildly-smitten
young man demanded. Therefore. the
courageous maid journeyed up to Lon
don and sold her hair. which was long
and of a tender yellow. to an honest
chapman in London, who paid her
sixty pounds (threc hundred dol
lars) for it, and soon sold it in wig to
his advantage,
To an Indian girl no humiliation is so
great as to have her hair cut off. The
matron of the London Institute. in Civ
ing me 4 description of the introduction
to civilization of the yeung Sioux. Paw
nees and Chippewas, said: at requires
great persuasion to induce them to en-
ter bath for the first time, and still
more to induce them to desist from eat
ing the soap, which they invariably
take for something good to eat. To
don the garments of the white woman |
and sit on chairs instead of floors their |
red skins rebclled against; but all these |
difficulties are mere bagatclles when |
compared with the hair-cutting process. |
Persuasion. brides and sometimes
threats even have to be used to gain |
this sacrifice to the altar of cleanli-
iiecs"
"how doyou account for it?' asked.
Altogether because it is the Indian
fashico when mourning the dead to let |
the hair fall over the face like thick |
veil, ana which muffles the wailing the |
women give vent to. The mere thought |
that if any brave of their blood should |
be summoned to the happy hunting
ground they could not mourn him in |
proper Indian fashion causes them ex-
treme notification. and consequently |
when the coarse black braids fall to the |
floor in our littr' layatory almost tragic |
scenes ensue. lsater on, when they are
made to understand that cleanliness is
the only condition imposed on its growth
they become reconci.ed, for their hair
grows rapidly"
Women in prison, Sven under life /
never give u; all attempts to
embellish themselves. and. l am told |
by the officials. find enjoyfaert not only !
in giving their hair extra attention. but
even in scraping the whitewash off the
walls with their tinger-naiIs to use as
powder. and substitute red ink for
rouge.
An incident of the unwilli,gness of
woman to part with her hair was given
me by a physician from one of the great
London hospitals. A poor coryphee
from the Globe Theater was brought to
him in most piteous condition from
to change the color of her
hair to 1.-THE glorious golden" prom
Used by the makers of well-advertised
'.blondine." The stuff did metamor-
phose the color. The pretty coryphee
made up her complexion ana eyebrows
to match, and for brief season she en-
joyed the special admiration of the