Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-06
CONGRESSIONAL HEADS.
Their Shapes and Sizes as
Seen from the Gallery.
SOME GRAND HEADS OF HAIR.
Big Heads and Plenty of Wit-Bald
and Gray-Haired Members.
Different Styles of Hair.

Different Styles of Hair.
There are some big heads in Congress
Not big heads in the sense some use the
expression, inelegantly, but large heads
heads that by nature have been
developed and endowed with size. Some
heads are large and roomy inside, with.
out being in any way extraordinary in
external construction. When a man has
discovered his own greatness little in
advance Of the rest of the world, he is
supposed to get the big head. Other
heads not always big get so 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 the Capitol,
but these are not the ones which have
attracted the Star mans observation
The familiar proverb about big heads and
little ones is not proved in the House.
Mr.. Reed has one OF the biggest heads
and the brightest wit.
Mr.. Cox, famed for his wit, has very
small head. Allen, the bright humorist
from the South, has head not as large
as the one and larger than the other. So
it is clear the size of the head has moth
ing to do with the size of the wit, when
it comes to applying the rule to Con-
gress.
Mr.. Reeds head is big and round and
fat. 1t looks as jolly as big English
plum pudding at Christmas time, or like
the man in the moon when he's full. 1t
is head that inspires confidence and
excites admiration. One is always
thankful when looking upon it that it is
not covered with hair, and there is ma
tural speculation as to what new lines OF
beauty may yet be revealed by progress
sive dropping out of those hairs. What
study for phre nologist?
There are more bumps on Mr.. Cox's
head. 1t is small and bony head-it
is not so filled in rounded off with fat.
The bump of wit is pronounced.
Mr.. Aliens head has much of the hum
orous and comical about it. 1t looks as
if it had been got up in self-sacriticing
good nature to amuse the public. 1t
presses itself into notice, and its form
and appearance becomes a part of Mr..
Aliens bright humor. 1t is fine head,
built on good lines, and is partly bald.
But it could not get bald as most any
merely ordinary head would. The bald
ness has not begun with little circular
clearing about the crown, gradually in
creasing with the circle of time. 1t has
not started at the forehead and run back.
1t has not extended back from the tenn
pies. or thinned the hair all
over alike. 1t has not followed
any or the ordinary tracks.
The hair is brushed straight up from the
forehead and temples in a luxurious
pompadour, or as if it would be a
luxurious pompadour, but the hair sud-
denly gives out in spots. The bumps of
Ideally are bare, or nearly so. On
some spots one, two. or half a dozen
hairs find footing. But wherever there
is hair it is pompadour. There is
enough hair on his head to cover all the
baroness and to spare for wig to cover
the whole head of Mr.. Tillman.
Looking down from the gallery it is the
the congregation of heads that protrude
upon the observation. Such heads! If
the whole American people could step
into the gallery unobserved some day
and look down upon those heads! 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
ing and impressive group. Bald heads
are in the large majority. There are lit,
tie heads and big heads; gray heads and
hood, TEo ~ 20,
numerous, but there is enough red to give
effect to the scene. There are round
heads, long heads and square heads
but they are all great heads.
The biggest head of them all is that
which rests on the thick neck and broad
shoulders of William Bourke Cochran,
the Tammany orator. Probably the
most shapely head is that which every
one likens to the bust Of Shakespeare. 1t
rests with striking pose upon the shoul-
ders of MIR. Bacon, OF New York. A very
large and great head is carried by Gov
ernor Long, who says he intends to carry
it into retirement at the expiration of his
term. 1t is firm, impressive head. 1t
has big. bald, strong forehead, and it is
full of hard sense as we'll 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
forehead.
Judge Crisp has big round head, or
more amiable lines than Mr.. Reeds,
full Of good nature and logic.
Mr.. Buchanan has very large meth
odical head to balance his rotundity of
person.
Bynum has big head, full of details
of the tariff. These are the men with
strikingly large heads.
The smallest head in the House is that
owned by Mr.. McClammy, of North Car
olina.
Mr.. Belmont has small head, with a
very intellectual scowl. He parts his
hair in the middle. But it is to the bar
ber rather than to the phrenologist that
most of the Congressional heads appeal.
Above all else, the heads are pictur-
esque. Some are beautiful bald-from
the forehead to the neck, and from ear to
ear, with only enough hair around the
edges to emphasize the high polish upon
the shining domes. Hon. John Lynch
has head of this sort-a shining and
shayely head, that seems proud to be
uncovered before the world. Thehair on
other heads is slowly retreating befor the
steady upward growth of the forehead
| MANY fOreheads have become high and