Telegram-herald., 1889-10-09

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lguoret : coue.
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tng TIE Perslzns were went % cat - Dot
o1ly Their owu hair but the names q their
horses TIE sane historian te-is TAX the
Ayr.zns beng defeated BY ths L.aoe1 eno-
Elans. mzde = SAcFi1ce q Their locks, and
vowed that they woula remain sRoru - long
Ss they had not reconquered Tayrs.
A. sparta. Lycurgus had dscreed the
wearing cf loBg hair, out tbs AM - which
P.utarch auudes, was never much ooeyed
Tae Spzrtzns. when taey aitalne1 their siI-
teenth year, did ss the young Athenisns,
and burned their hair upon The altar %
either Diana or hars. The Tact Is al the
barosriaus who used 70 come from across
the seas ia those tunes wore ncwing locas,
and the Greeks had no wish 10 resemble
them. SAYS the Boston Traveller Our prlm-
iuye ancestors. the Britonss and Ike Them,
the Gauls. allowed their hair 70 grow undis-
i
and men Ike Caractacus must have locked
curious. Conquered by the Romans. tue
Gauls and britons were ign0miniousiy
clipped In MS enumeration Of the Gallo
tribes led into captivity By Casar, Lucian
speaks Of tho Ilguses, ''now shOrn, but ere
while possessed Of an abundant mass OF
hair" Those Of the Gsuls who obtained
their liberation fastened 20 let their hair
grow again; IL order the more 70 mark the
Importance they attached to flowing locks
they took 10 shaving their slaves
In France when a nobleman was convicted
Of anv felonious ofenso tho razor was in
variably applied to his pate. Clotaire l.,
King OF France, caused his own son, Gonde-
band, 70 be shorn for conspiring against
him, and, by way Of adding 70 the disgrace
OF his sentence, he Immediately afterward
issued an edict condemning 70 the severest
penalties anv one who should by stealth or
violence cut Of the hair Of an honest man.
The hair question assumed disquieting pro-
portions in France, for in the year 1901
Pierre Lombard, Archbi shop OF Paris (whose
head left much 10 be desired IN the matter
Of capillary adornment), was prevailed upon
by the ulalcOntents 70 become their cham
pion. He was a learned and good man, and
no doubt he had often pondered upon the
unseemly appearance of his close-clipped
crown in the silence OF the closet, until he
took up the cudgels like man determined
to win.
The King OF France at that time was the
gallant Phillip II. generally known as Phil
| ip Augustus. After giving the matter bis
most attentive consideration he signed the
magma charter Of capillary liberty, at about
| the same time his royal compeer. John Of
| England, was making a dismal face over
| the charter Of Runnymede.'
Generally speaking, the English follow
the French IN the matter Of personal adorn-
ment, but in this case the English were be-
forehand. So early in the reign of Henry
| H. our plebeian forefathers had obtained ex-
emption from the obligation of having their
| hair cut, aud they obtained 1t without much
| ado.
We hear nothing more about short hair
until the sixteenth century. From the time
Of Philip Augustus to that CT Francis l.
| every one, lord or lumpkin, let his hair fall
| down his back.
| Historians and chroniclers speak a great
| deal about oils and ointments that were
| used by the wealthy and noble of the middle
| ages, and it appears TO have been a pretty
| prevalent custom TO powder ones locks
with gold dust.
Every one knows how long hair and shor,
! hair had marked political significance dur
| ing the war Of Charles L against the Pre-
tender. 1t was no joke then 10 be caught
with bristles in Prince Rupert's camp, and
to have come with curling LOCKS under
| Cromwelrs eye would have been to run the
| risk of being sent, not to the hair, but L
the headcutter's.
Charles ii. brought back the fashion o1
| long cavalier locks, but these were soon su
| perseded by the towering wigs introduced
| by Louis XIV. He had a very poor head Of
hair, thin, lank, and OF dirty buff color
and his barber devised a most vo.aminOu:
perique TO meet the emergency. The fash
ion renamed in use until the middle o1
Louis XIV's reign, when it gave way I,
the famous powdered wig. The great re
public swept away the wigs and many Of
the heads that were in them. II was ther
that the pig-tail fashion came in for DO
high and low, and lasted long enough to bt
remembered by some men of the presen
day. NoDoleon l. mercilessly cut off the pig
tails of his republican soldiers, and nearl,
caused mutiny among the army of Egyp
by so doingi Similarly, immense disconten
was excited in the Britsh navy when tht
Admiral abolished the pigtail some sevent,
years ago. So we come down 10 the presen
time, when we crafty our individual taste
in the matter Of our heads OF hair, unless
indeed, we are private soldiers or pauper
or convicts, or are put INTO a reformatOry
when. for the general good, we must yielC
| to sanitary cropping laws.