The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-15
SENATORIAL HAIR.
Distinguished Legislators Who Boast
of Hirsute Adjournment.
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From the NeD York World.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-"In his hair
there is strength" This was the thought of
Delilah when she pruned Samson's locks.
The bald heads of the Senate are many, but
the men of much hair are as brainy as they
Senator Blair rode last week to the capitol
with a red-headed boy, and he said, as he
sat in the street car: 'Why, your hair Is
red! But have hope; it may become darker
When | was a boy they called me Reddy,'
and, indeed, my hair was as norid as yours"
Blars hair is now a crushed strawberry,
with line Of white here and there running
through it. It is thick, long and glossy
John G. Spooner combs his hair with saw
1t is brown and long and each identical hair
stands out by itself, so that his head looks
like poTcupinc ready for battle. He Is
snged cat, however, and he runs more to
| brains than to beauty.
We have half a dozen Pompadour Sena-
tors, and among these are Teller, Beck and
voorhees,. These men comb their hair
without parting, and they make their thatch
stand out from the scalp, Cullom's hair IS
a long, sable silver, and it is combed much
like that of John C. Calhoun. 1t rises up
from high, dark forehead, and lies as
The bees Of political ambition
are buzzing about it, and the Presidential
hornet clings close TO his scalp Beck
has beautiful hair 1t is short and curly,
and it forms many ripples on the top OF his
massive Scotch head. 1t was once jet black,
and the gray now begins to creep around
the edges, but it is as glossy as though it
were polished and oiled, and the head be-
meath it is packed full of figures. Beck
thinks while he is sleeping, and it is said
that some of his bills he prepares in his
dreams He has gone to bed at night, as
boy, thinking of an abtruse mathematical
problem, and awakened to find that his
mind had solved it during the night. He
wears chin whiskers and his eye snaps with
vigOr.
Voorhees, hair is shorter than Cullom's
and it is cross between red and
brown. 1t might be called a mahogany
shade, and that Is the fashionable color this
season. Voorhees, head is one of the biggest
in the Senate, and it almost vies with that
of the man here in Washington who has
sold his head to museum for $3.50 He
has used up the proceeds, and he is perhaps
the only instance in history of a man who
has eaten his head
1t is easy to see how the Presidential bee
roughs up the hair of Sherman and Allison.
A lock of black silver fails over Sherman's
high forehead, and Allisons iron-graav
thatch lies as though his scalp was covered
with cowlicks. Henderson has very nice
combs it we'll up from the forehead, and his
parting is decidedly PLAN. Plumb's hair is
as brown as the dried corn-silk of Kansas,
and it is almost as long. Senator George,
Of Mississippi, has also brown hair, and he
seems to comb it only on Sundays. Turpie's
thatch is iron-gray and is plastered fiat to a
little round head.
Among the black heads of the Senate are
the millionaire Stanford, the cOurty John
Daniel who looks like Edwin Booth and
Senator Sabin, who represents Minnesota.
Sabin's hair is jet-black and it shines like
creased ebony. He keeps it well combed,
and his clean scalp shines through it at the
part. Stanford wears his hair pompadour,
and his forehead is high. CnandlerS head
is the smallest in the Senate He wears a
No 3 hat, and his thatch is like that of
badger, decidedly gray. Paddock is white
haired, and Dawes has hair of silver. George
Vests locks are s.raw-colored and Ingalls,
well-trimmed head is covered with iron
gray hair His hair is thick and it is as
long as the hairs of a tooth brush. He keeps
it well combed and he has it cut twice every
month.
Ingalls, has human scalp-book in his
library. 1t is an Indian trophy 1t hangs
by his desk as he plans his bitterest speeches,
and at times he wishes, no doubt. that he
could use the scalp-knife as well as his
tongue. It makes ones flesh creep to hear
Ingalls, describe how the Indian Scalps his
fallen foe. His eyes flash as he talks and,
in tones dramatic tells how the savage
grasps the lock in one hand and swings the
knife in a circle of light about the head of
his victim He then, with a gesture, shows
how, bracing himself with his feet on the
fallen mans shoulders, the Indian jerks off
the SCALP, and it cracks like pistol, the re-
port being produced by the suction like the
pulling of wet piece of leather from a fiat
stone. FRANK q. CARPENTER.