The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-08

! linaris lemonade, which Uncle Sam has
! duly paid for. Grandpa Isaac Bassett,
who has been in the senate chamber boy
and man, for fifty-eight years, tells me he
never knew a senate which had so many
/ bald headed members as this one About
two-thirds of the senators are more or less
bald. Fully twenty-five present the bare
craniums which tradition assigns to the
front rows at the opera
The baldest, bleakest state in the Union,
Judged by its representatives in the senate
chamber, is Nevada. Both Jones and Stew
art have large deserts on their heads, and
when the silver bearded statesmen from
the silver state confer in the senate cham
Der bystanders are prone to remark that
the wealth of Neyada's soil is not in the
surface, but in the depths. 1t is a note
worthy coincidence that Stewart and Jones
are Of about the same age, are both
blonde, have flowing white boards that
could be transplantcd from ones chin to
the others without exciting comment and
are also the pOSsessoTs of two bleak and
barren sections as near alike as one sandy
township in Nevada is like another
The two prettiest bald heads in the SEN
ate are those of Edlnunds and Sawyer
The word ''prettiest" is here used deliber-
ately, for | contend that u bald head may
be pretty. That it is more often ugly only
adds charm TO the aesthetic specimen which
we occasionally come upon. Now the bald
head of Senator Edmunds is q delight to
the eye. The entire head, excepting
hairy fringe near the neck, is Of delicate
pink, as sweet as a baDy's face, and so
smooth that the experienced fly dips his
feet in some convenient mucilage bottle
before attempting to traverse that glairy
surface | once heard q lady in the diplo-
matte gallery-and being a diplomate's wife
she was experienced in such matters-say
Senator EdmunQs' was the only bald head
she ever saw which she wanted to kiss. 1t
may be added that Senator Edmunds'
pretty pink pate possesses other character
istics of note. When the Senator laughs
it is not his face that wrinkles, but the
back part of his bald head In such a case
the wrinkles roll up and dance and twinkle
for all the world like the little waves of
fat on a cooling baby's ''tummick."
Senator Sawyer's bare loft is almost as
sweet as that Of the senator from Vermont.
1t, too, is pink and clearly, but is slightly
married by few bumps and hollows
When these two statesmen and HiScock
and Allison happen to come together, as
they often do, we have two good pairs to
draw to. The contrast is striking. Hiscock
has the most beautiful head Of hair in con-
gress; it is free and flowing, it turns out
ut the ends like the hair of n curly headed
girl, and the iron gray which is now its
prevailing color is here and there dappled
with shining black. Allison, despite his
twenty-five years of congressional labors,
has fine, luxurious crop of hair, which is
neither black nor gray, and which has Il
tendency to fluff like womans bangs.
If we wanted to draw to these two pairs,
and to fill on the hairy end, we would take
George, Of Mississippi. He is noted as the
senator who wears the largest hat in con-
gress-No. 9 is. If he were to have his
hair moved off he could get along with a
size or two smaller Mr. Georges big,
sturdy head with it's shaggy covering re
minds one very much of the old buffalo
bull kept in pen at the National museum,
and who is intended to be the patriarch of
the National Geological park which con-