Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-08

ping ashes or some other strong alkali on the skin to destroy the growth. The Indians of the Pacific coast frequently clip of or pull out the hair on the top and the back of the head, leaving lock over each ear, while in the South it was practice among the Indi- ans to extirpate the hair on all portions of the head save the back, and leave that for scalp lock. In all cases, wherever the lock or locks were left, they were always adorned in the highest style of Indian art, sometimes with feathers, occasionally with wampum or beads, and not infrequently their size was increased and their length extended by the use of horse hair
 The Philippians have no hair, properly speaking, but what answers them for hair is really different from the hair of the white races. If 8 hair from the head of a Caucas- ian be examined through microscope it is found to be hollow and composed of sections or joints somewhat resembling these of 6 cane, or in some case like ladder with its rounds. The hair of an African Is entirely different in this respect, being solid and round, this constituting the difference be- tween wool and hair; but nevertheless the fact that his wool is solid appears only to endear 1t to the African, who gives it all the more attention perhaps because he has so It. tie of it, and divides his scalp into patches, gathering up the hair from each into 8 eireu- lar knot and tying 1t with string as care fully as though 1t were treasure. In the interior of the dark continent the wool of the negroes is frequently long, though nev CT straight, but so difficult is the task of disentangling their locks that not much at tempt at ornateuess is made in the African headdresses. Livingstone says that when an African chief makes his toilet the most he ever attempts in the way of arranging head dress is to comb his wool up into 8 pyramidal shape, stick few feathers in 1t, and hang one or more strings of beads 4to 41 rAG lie unique edifce.
 The Asiaties have always been famous for decorating their heads. The Moham. medans of old shaved their heads, except a single knot of hair at the exact top of the head, which was left for a practical pur- pose, the Mohammedan doctrine being that at the resurrection of the dead the angel Gabriel was specially detailed to attend to the Mohammedans, and he raised them by the top-knot. Accordingly the top-knot was left full and strong in order that the hold might not break, hole being left in the top of the coffin in order to facilitate the angels work The Chinese method of hair dressing is too we'll known to need de- scription, while in India the styles are both numerous and diversified, many of the tribes of the Punjaub being distinguished from each other by their methods of dressing the hair.
 According to Lubbock, Darwin and other authorities, the head dressing of the South Sea Islanders is ornate in the last degree, while not infrequentIy their styles of dress ing their hair are so ingeniously grotesque as to create the impression that the arrange ment was solely for the purpose of exciting laughter. Sometimes most of the hair on the head is clipped away, leaving 8 number of short, round tufts, as though the scalp were planted with short paint brushes. De- casionally the hair is cut away from the fore head and temple, leaving it at the top and back of the head; sometimes the back of the head is shaved, leaving the haiy on the top and sides; but generally the entire growth of hair is left upon the head, and as the capillary adornments of the New Zea- flanders are very long and bushy, the colHure of chief generally assumes enormous pro. portions. One traveller mentions the fact of seeing a chief in New Zealand whose head dress was over three feet in diameter and ar l ranged in long cones, the surface of the scalp being divided into great number of small circles, and the hair growing in each twisted up and so curled as to form inverted scones, l the point being toward the scalp.
 But not content with these extraordinary | appendages, the South Sea Islanders have 8 l practice of dyeing their hair and in the most | extraordinary colors. The natural color of their hair is a ietty black, but they have a { number of pigments, which ii well known to them, by which they colo1 their locks red, green, blue, yellow and white, and every variety of color may be
 seen in the course of days walk. But the New Zealand dandy is frequently not satis- fled with having his hair of one color, and so will dye 1t in several, making bands or stripes across his cranium. recent travel
 CT records having seen New ZealaEder with l an enormous shock of bushy hair. In front the hair was left it's natural color. Next, from the ear across the top ot the head to the other, came strip of white hair, then a
 band of red, then streak of green, then a blue stripe. and this parti-eolored savage, who resembled nothing so much as an extra ordinary habited clown in the circus, was not only the admiration of himself, but of the entire village in which he lived, so that in New Zealand, as well as in more civilized countries, the adage: ''Varisty is the spice of life," is perfectly true.