The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-11-13
MEN WITH LONG HAlR.
How Warriors Of Oldsn Times Dresss
.9l Their Head Adornmont.


Their Head Adornmont
st. Paul held that 1t was shame TO Q
man 70 wear his hair long, and so he tells
the Corinthians in his first epistle TO them.
On the other hand, Huychins, patriarch Of
Jerusalem, Al, Deco, declared the outward,
visible signs Of manly perfection to consist
IN an ample beard and In hair flowing down
the shoulders. In remote ages the Per-
slams, who now have their heads shaven,
wore long hair. Darius had most luxuri-
ant poll, and Alexander, who conquered
him, probably paid few visits TO the hair
cutters In the course OF his lite. Al
ciblades and his clique Of roues introduced
the effeminate fashion Of hair into Greece.
Before their time the Athenians were
roundheads, and 1t Is fair TO presume that
Aristides the Just, who did not pride him
self above measure on his devotion to the
graces, sported good crop Of bristles and
ignored comb. -
Herodotus relates that in token Of mourn
ing the Persians were won't to cut OF not
only their own hair but. the names Of their
horses. The same historian tells that thp
Ayrians, being defeated by the Laced@mo-
mans, made a sacrifice OF their locks, and
vowed that they would remain shorn as long
as they had not reconquered Thyr@.,
AT Sparta, Lycurgust had decreed the
wearing Of long hair; but this law, 10 which
Plutarch alludes, was never much obeyed.
The Spartans, when they attained their six
teenth year, did as the young Athenians,
and burned their hair upon the altar OF
either Diana or Mars. The fact Is, all the
barbarians who used 10 come from across
the seas In those times wore flowing locks,
and the Greeks had no wish TO resemble
them, says the Boston Traveller. Our prim-
tive ancestors, the Britons, and like them,
the Gauls allowed their hair 10 grow undis-
turbed. 1t often reached below the waist,
and men like Caractacus must have looked
curious. Conquered by the Romans, the
Gauls and Britons were ANONYMOUSLY
clipped. In his enumeration Of the Gallo
tribes led into captivity by Caesar, Lucian
speaks Of the Liguses, "now shorn, but ere
while possessed of an abundant mass Of
.hair.n Those Of the Gauls who obtained
their liberation hastencd TO let their hair
| grow again; In order the more TO mark the
! importance they attached TO flowing locks
| they took to shaving their slaves, 4, i
In. Francewhcn nobleman wasconvicted
Of any felonious ofiense the razor was in
! variably applied to his pate. Clotaire L,
King OF France, caused his own son, Gonde.
band, TO be shorn for conspiring against
him; and, by way Of adding TO the disgracs
Of his sentence, be immediately afterward
issued an edict coudemning TO the severesi
penalties any one who should by stealth OF
violence cut of the hair of m honest man
The hair question assumed disquieting pro
portions in France, for In the year 1901
Pierre Lombard, Archbishop Of Paris <ahoss
head left much To be desired in.the matter
.of capillary adornmeut), was prevailed upor
By the malcontents 10 become their cham
,pIon. BE was q learned and good man, snt
noidoubt be had often pondered upon th,
unseemly appearance OF his elose-clippet
crown in the silence Of the closet, until b,
took up the cudgels like man determined
TO win.
The King of France at that time was th,
gallant Phillip IL, generally known as Phil
! IN Augustus. After giving the matter hi
most attentive consid Grafton he signed th'
magma charter of capillary liberty, At abou
the same time his royal compeer, John o
England. was making n dismal fsce owe
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