The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-31
CONGRESSIONAL HEADS.
SHAPES AND STYLES AS VIEWED
FROM THE HOUSE GALLERY.

Reeds jolly Heed-MemberS With
Gray Hair and Mem bers Who Are
Bald-Diherent Styles OF Wearing
the Hair-Mr. Aliens Peculiarities.
From the Washington Post.
There are some Jig heads in Congress
Not big heads in Re sense some use tue ex-
preston, indignantly, but large heads
heads that by nature have been developed
and endowed with size. Some heads are
large and roomy inside without being in
any way extraordinary In external con-
struction. When a man has discovered
his own greatness little in ad-
vance of the rest of the world, he is sup
posed to get the big head. Other heads not
alwas big, get 50 periodically, under certain
conditions, and there are heads that merely
feel big when in fact they are not at all
unusual in size. Some such heads there may
| be at tire capitol, but those are not the
ones which have attracted the reporters
observation The familiar proverb about
big heads and little ones, is not proved in
| the House
HMr. Reed has one of the biggest heads and
the brightest wit
Mr.. Cox, famed for his wit, has q very
small head. Allen, the bright humorist
from the South, has a head not as large as
| the one and larger than the other. So il
is clear that the size of tire head has nothing
to do with the size of the WIZ, when 1t comes
! to applying the rule TO Congress.
| Mr.. Reefs head is big and round and fat
1t looks as jolly as a big English plum-pud-
ding at Christmas time, or like the man in
the moon when he's full. 1t is a head that
inspires confidence and excites admiration
One is always thankful in looking upon it
| ~ * s-it hair
is a natural speculation as to what new lines
of beauty may yet be revealed by progress
| size dropping out of those hairs. What a
study for phrenologiat!
There are more bumps in Mr.. Cox's head.
1t is small and bOny hcad-it is not so
| filled in and rounded off with fat. 1t is a
| little but long head. The bump of wit is
| pronounced.
Mr.. ALIENS HEAD.
has much of the humorous and comical
| about it. 1t looks as if it had been got up
in self-sacrihcing good nature to amuse the
| public. 1t presses itself into notice and its
| form and appearance becomes part of Mr..
| Aliens bright humor. 1t is a fine head,
| built on good lines, and is partly bald. But
it could not get bald as most any merely
ordinary head would The badness has
not begun with little circular clearing
about the crown, gradually increasing with
|
| forehead and run back. 1t has not ex-
| tended back from the temples, or thinned
| the hair all over alike. 1t has not followed
any of the ordinary tracks The hair is
| brushed straight up from the forehead and
temples in luxurious pompadour, or as if
| it would be luxuriant pOmpadour, but the
| hair suddenly gives out in spots. The
| bumps of ideality are bare. A vigorous
| bunch of hair stands straight I'D on the
| hmm n HIM Of lie
BARE or nearly So On some spots one, two,
or half a dozen hairs find footing. But
| wherever there is a hair it is pompadour.
| There is enough hair on his head 20 cover
all the baroness, and to spare for a wig to
cover the whole head Of Hr Tillman.
| LOOKING DOWN FROM THE GALLERY
it is the congregation of heads that protrude
upon the observation. Such headsl If the
whole American people could step into the
gallery unobserved some day and look down
| upon those headsl Then there would be an
expansion of national pride that would
spread all over the country.
| Sometimes there are feet where the heads
ought to be, but the heads are what arrest
att ntion. They are striking and i'm
| pressive group. Bald heads are in the large
majority. There are little heads and big
heads; gray heads and red heads. The for
mer are by far most numerous, but there is
%.
There are round heads, long heads and
square hoads-but they are all great heads.
BIG HEADS.
The biggest head of them all is that which
rests on the thick neck and broad shoulders
of William Bourke Cochran, tho Tammany
orator. Probably the most shapely head is
that which every one hkens to the bust of
Shakespeare. 1t rests with striking pose
upon the shoulders of Mr. Bacon, of New
York. A very large and a great head is
carried by Gov. Long, who SAYS he intends
to carry it into retirement at the expiration
of this term. 1t is firm, impressive head.
1t has big, bald, strong forehead, and it is
full of hard sense as well as picturesque
ideas
Mr. Glover has a remarkably large head
for the little body it controls.
Samuel d. b. Henderson has big, hard
head with heavy jaw and square fore
head.
Judge Crisp has a big, round head, of
more amiable lines than Mr.. Reeds, full Of
good nature and logic.
Mr. Buchanan has very large method
zeal head to balance his rotundity of person
Bynum has a big head, full Of details of
the tariff These are the men with strik-
ingly large heads.
| THE SMALLEST HEAD
in the House is that owned by Mr.. Nc
| Clalnmy, oil North carolina. Mr.. Belmont
has n small head, with very intee tual
scowl which he parts in the middle But il
is TO the barber rather than to the phrenol-
ogist that most of the congressional heads
appeal
Above all else, the heads are picturesque.
Some are beautifully bald-from the fore
head TO the neck, and from ear to ear, with
only enough hair around tho edges to en-
phasize the high polish upon the shining
domes. Hon. John Lynch has head OF
this sort-a shining and shapely head, that
seems proud to be uncovered before the
world. The hair on other heads is slowly
retreating before the steady upward growth
of the forehead. Many fOreheaos have be-
come high and intellectual Within tho past
two years. Again, the cycle of time has cut
a swarth around the crown, and each wear
makes little broader circle The spot on
Mr. Randal's crown, which was but small
two years ago, is now fully two inches in
diameter A vigorous growth of stiff gray
hair covers the rest of the head, without
even a part through its heavy mass.
Mr.. Furan's raven locks, which have been
his pride and the admiration of the CALLER
les for three terms, are now struggling
against the growth of little bald spot al
the crown
Mr.. Matson is trying to cover a great
bald crown with half dozen long hairs
coined up from tho temples. The temples
used TO furnish hair enough TO cover the
! yyl baaI INIT tbpep lone, boi,.s