Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-10
A woMAN's HAIR.
AN ENTERTAINING CHAPTER.
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Cincinnati Enquirer.l
Poets have always shown keen 40
probation Of womEn's browning glory.
That little, grand man Pope wrote
Fair tresses mans imperial race ensnare.
And besIiy draws as with a single hair.
The particular hair which suggested
this pretty figure Of speech cOnld
scarcely have ornamented the head Of
the authors adored Lady Mary Wort
ley Montagu, for il was notorious fact
that the learned lady entertained pro-
found prejudice against brush and
comb, and was wont to conceal her tan
gled tresses meath hideous cap. Dry
den said OF the one hundred and City
thousandth part Of q woman's capillary
attractions:
she knows her man, and when you rant
and swear.
Can dtaw you to her with single hair.
Carew added his testimony in the
lines
These curious locks 50 aptly lniertwiued.
Whose every hair a soul doth bind.
That solitary hair might prove as
fatal to a mans neck as to his soul was
shown In the execution Of the CaliCor-
MIA murderer Waslelewsky feg years
ago Judge Belden, a grim satirist,
sentenced the criminal, and then sug-
gested that Justice should be made pc
culiarly retributive by an original
method Of hanging, in which long.
black hair from the head Of the woman
so brutality 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 de-
tectiye has been well utilized IN the
tragedy and comedy Of real and mimic
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 murderer Della
court TO his doom and an elegant little
comedy BY Octave Feuillet called - For
One Fair Hair - has been revived with
success, the thread Of the story being
literally in this case single golden hair.
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 q monarch OF
France condescended 10 pluck hair
from his royal bead and bestow it upon
a loyal subject, it was sure indication
Of further and more substantial benefits
TO come.
We are told. both on scientific and
scfiptUral authority, that the very hairs
on our head are all numbered. Or.
Winslow. after many la0orious expert
Dents. asserts that the average number
of hairs 20 the square inch on a W.
man head Is by actual count LOGO :;
on the whole head from l3o,0J1 70
10000. Take this number Of hairs
IN mqsse-le. it be long, fine, lustrous.
and pure IN color. and whether Il falls
straight as an Indians in uu5ToEen
folds. OF in curling, clustering masses,
or Yet in graceful, shimmer'ng waves
and ripples, it does indeed form really
glorious ornament, aud one that any
woman is 10th TO lose or part with.
Do you remember that master touch
Of master hand-poor " an.ile -
selling her splendid locks that her
child might have bread | have known
similar 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 colrser
grades from pea ant, heads breathe OF
a silent sacrifice: For Just as much
as the hand and ear does the hair be-
trav good blood and fine breeding.
In the great port Of Marseilles one
has a capital chance to test his acute
ness by examining the piles Of hair
collected Tor expectation.
That bundle Of FURNISHED golden
locks, breathing faint odor Of yIole.s.
sou feel sure is from the head Of some
yourg virgin but yesterday made the
bride Of Christ" for the Church, ike
the guillotiue. demands womau's hair
before she quits this world Here
IS package OF shining chestnut curls.
with such a look OF life about them
that il is easy 10 imagine the darE-5lue
eyes, the pink and dimpled face they
once enwreathed-cut OF. perhaps. 10
keep q 1oguish lover from prison.
That Luxurious mass Of long, blue
black perfImed hair How came II
here | asked tAe swarthy foreman.
burnt under the southern sun.
1t was cut Of the head Of young
wife, madam. whose husband lcf, he'
here ill-abandoned. She wished u 10
be sold 10 pay for her coffin, and sh'
knew that dealers do not Ike to bag
dead hair any more than they 40 fel.
theirs plucked from dead goose, q.
continued. in a most matter-oi-laci va :,
Most pathetic Of all was pa aage %
soft. lustrous. slyery-whiJe haT-.
mothers sacrifice. no doub.-lnd which
oh, grim Tate vii bring q higher pric'
than even the heavy daXen 0rlids a
their side.
For the rest for those pounds upor
pounds Of brown and yellow aad blac'
tres es, one can look a. them without
emotion for, like the sheep wool
they were grown only 10 be shIr- aud
Tor the sake Of a few silver CONS an
gorgeous 'kerchief that tempsrs Ia
wind 10 the peasant lambs of Augcreat
and Brittany.
Two women. both celebrated in ;heI
vav. deliberately Gu: of their hair
Charlotte CoIday vas one. She haC
no trinkets nor mementOes 10 distribute
among her friends, 50 she fOfe'tal.ec
the grim valet Of the gailiotine aad ca
off her beautiful hair herself. sendn'
locks Of 1t 10 her family aad deares
friends.
OF that proud. arrogant. aad anbl
,ious woman, Sarah. Duchess OF Mari
borough, we might say she cut OF hat
instead of nose TO spite her lace. ]
Be more explanatory. 1t seems that ~
Duchess had very splendid hair, unu'ua
n length anu abundance. and exceed
ipclv fine. The great soldier. her hus
hand. who was very much in love Siil
her. entertained FOR It pro'oun
A..a..nr and was wont % saI