Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-11-06

Voweo that they would remain snoru rs long
Is they had not reconquered ThyrD.
At Sparta, Lycurgus had decreed the
wearing Of long hair; but this law, TO 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 70 como 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-
five ancestors, the Britons, and like them,
the Gauls, allowed their hair TO grow undis-
turbed. II 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, LuciRn
speaks Of the Liguses, "uow shorn, but ere
while possessed Of an abundant mass Of
hair" Those of the Gauls who obtained
their liberation fastened 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.
In France when nobleman was convicted
Of any felonious ohense 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 disgrace
of his sentence, he Immediately afterward
issued an edict condemuing TO the severest
penalties any one who should by stealth or
violence cut on the hair Of an honest man.
The hair question assumed disquietinR pro-
portions in France, for in the year 1901
Pierre Lombard, Archbishop Of Paris (whose
head left much to be desired in the matter
Of capillary adornment), was prevailed upon
by the malcontents TO become their cham
pion. He was 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
70 win.
The King Of France at that time was the
gallant Phillip H., generally known as PHI
ip Augustus. After giving the matter his
most attentive consideration he signed the
magma charter of capillary liberty, at about
the same time his royal compeer, John OF
England, was making dismal face over
the charter of Runnymede-
Generally speaking, the English follow
the French In the matter Of personal adOrn-
ment, but in this ease the English were be-
forehand. So early In the reign Of Henry
IL our plebeian forefsthers had obtained ex-
hair cut, and they obtained it without much
ado.
We hear nothing more about short hair
until the sixteenth century. From the time
Of Philip Augustus TO that Of Francis 1.
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 q pretty
prevalent custom to powder ones locks
with gold dust.
Every one knows how long hair and short
hair had marked political significance dur
ing the war of Charles 1 against the Pre-
tender. 1t was no joke then to be caught
with bristIes in Prince Rupert's camp, and
to have come with curling locks under
Cromwelps eye would have been to run the
risk of being sent, not to the hair, but to
the headcutter's.
Charles II. brought back the fashion Of
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 q most voluminous
perique to meet the emergency. The fash
ion renamed In use until the middle Of
Louis XIV.'s reign, when 1t gave way to
the famous powdered wig. The great re-
public swept away the wigs and many Of
the heads that were in them. 1t was then
that the pig-tail fashion came in for both
high and low, and lasted long enough to be
remembered by some men of the present
day. Napoleon /. mercilessly cut of the pig
tails of his republican soldiers, and nearly
caused mutiny among the army Of Egypt
by so doingl Similarly, immense discomfort
l.sA
Admiral abolished the pigtail some seventy
years ago. So we come down to the present
| time, when we crafty our individual tastes
in the matter of our heads of hair, unless
indeed, we are private soldiers or paupers
or convicts, or are put into a reformatory
when, for the general good, we must yield
to sanitary cropping laws.
The Queer Profession Carved Out by N
Enterprising English Woman.
Absolutely the latest Importation from
England established herself yesterday OF
Upper Broadway, says the New Yorl
| Herald. She is tall and rather hard
featured woman from Manchester, who dis
plays the extraordinary sign on the door o
her fiat: "Disciplinarian of Children" He
sister established the particular ''profes
sion" which she follows in London nearl,
two years ago, and 1t is now transplanted T.
New York. The mothers and fathers O
families will probably be able to judg
whether the idea is worth encouraging
or not
my sister," said the Manchester woma
who has established herself here, ''reali1
ing that the majority Of mothers love thei
children too much to punish them severely
conceived the idea Of setting herself up as
public disciplinarian. She is woman q
great force Of character and unerrin
judgment In all matters concernin