The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-04-03
HOW THE HAIR IS PARltD
Onlv One Parts His Hair Mathematl-
ally in the Middle.
SENATOR WHO STRADOLES The STYLE
Another Looks Like an Optical Advertisement.
Chandler is Never Seen Without His
Glasses. Hoar'S Old Fash
ion Specs.
especial 10 News AMI ob-errer.)

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majority OF the members OF Congress.
though the exact figures are not obtain
able. nor necessary TO this story, wear
glasses. 1t is not this fact which is in
teresting. but the manner il which those
glasses are worn. Senator Chandler. Tor
instance. can never be disassociated from
his large. black-rimmed bow glasses. 1t
| is said that the Senator from New Hamp-
shire sleeps With these glasses on, but
SO far as the newspaper men in the press
gallery are concerned. this is hearsay.
The gentlemen Of the press gallery 10
! not invade the bed-chambers O sleeping
! statesmen, though at times they APP
/ proach. in some instances. to this degree
OF familiarity. But, did YOU ever see
q picture Of Senator Chandler, in which
The most conspicuous feature Of his face
| was not his glasses? You never did. The
only time at which Mr.. Chandler IS With
| ont his glasses is when he removes them
m~omentarily that he may readJust them
on his nose. From one side OF the
glasses stretches a long black-silk dou-
BILE string. the lower end OF which
reaches down TO his waist and IS sad
~ some OF his intimate friends to be
NItcneU 10 MS SuSpcNueI DutlOH. VI
Chandler when he looks at 4 man or a
woman, or any other object which may
or may not interest him, tits his head
back and seems to try to look from an
der his glasses instead of through them.
Really. when Mr.. Chandler is looking at
Il fellow Senator On the floor OF The
chamber his head is poised as though he
we're studying the weather through the
coiored skylights.
Senator Teller, of Colorado, does not
make observations through his glasses at
the same angle at which Mr.. Chandler
does. The senior Senator from Colorado
has a long nose, and a very sharp one,
ard he poises his specks so very near the
tip Of it, they sometimes fall, while lie
is delivering himself OF a speech, from
his very thin face to the yellow carpet
which covers the Senate floor.
The biggest optical outfit worn in the
Senate IS that belonging TO Senator De-
Doe, of Kentucky. lie wears massive gold
spcctacles. The bars which reach from
the bow TO his ears are about one-third
o. an inch wide and CORRESPONDENCE thick.
As re bends above his red mahogony
desk, his fat, round and hairless face and
his broad bald forehead. seem TO shine
with gold. When he readjusts these
spcctacles and rises to address the Pres
,itlGnt il lIc SENATE, II Is litiu 10 get
away from the suggestion that the Blue |
Grass Republican is advertising optica.
goods.
Senator Hear is rarely TO be seen with
out his slender steeI-rimmed spectacles,
which he puts on and takes off very much
as might some old grand dame of the
Colonial school. His rosy, full, CHEEKY old
face, his bright blue eyes, his white hair
and his spectacles and withal his
quaint, calm, Down East way Of speaking
are the things which cause nearly every
body at the Capitol to think of him as
Grandpa Hoar.
Senator Alien, of Nebraska, is also con- !
s]picuous by reason OF his spectacles. not
so much because CT the Instruments
themselves as his way Of using them. He
seldom looks through them, but nearly
always peeps or glowers over them. When
he speaks, he ducks his head between
his big broad shoulders and rolls his eyes
upward as though the glasses that he
wears far down on his nose were n
great impeachment to his vision.
Some men in Congress have very pc
culiar hair Then again there are those
whose hair is if the usual sort,-just or
binary, omlnOn hair. These
AS in the matter Of mOney,.so it is il,
the matter Of hair-some men have much
N' SCANS 49, q 1 ISiG are men f.
IN Co2gress-even in the senate. who are
absolutely INDECENT in the matter Of hair.
spectators il the galleries of the House
OF representatives ask during every day.
VINO IS that large man down there with
the funny color hair?" The answer, if the
person addressed be at all acquainted in
the House must be, Why that is Mr..
LorimeI, the Chicago boss" The exact
coior OF Mr.. Lorifner's hair is a puzzle to
every spectator who IS not color blind.
NobOdy ever tried TO describe Mr.. Lori
lhers halr without getting tangled W.
1T is not yellow, it is not red. it is MOI
purple. yet it is ell Of these at the same
time Some persons have said that if a
gold brick, g ripe carrot and some sum
mer sunset could be mixed in a yellow
mortar with Q purple pestle. the result
ing color Would resemble that of Mr..
formers hair And Their too, there is
such q shocking mass OF this hair. 1t is
oiled up on his head and behind his head
1t drops down upon his coat collar and =
curling coWlick laps down over his right
eye. Mr.. Lorinler keeps his hair sin =
nigh state OF cultivation.' 1t is always
brushed and FURNISHED.
Ar- Eoonan, also Of Chicago. has at
tractiTe hair. HIS hair is of the Snan-
lSh type and is worn in The Ouesaaa
stSie-black. loEg, With q suggestion ~
curiiness, and brushed straight AVA
from the forehead and temples. From
me galleries he appears 70 be a Span
ISL hldalso or something like that. and
mas come 10 be known as the member
from Puerto Rico. He pays strict attep-
ION TO MS hair, and it is said the bot
'er 10 SEo" it off. that he chooses the
company OF bald head men on the floor
OF the House.
Though thpra ic ,o,uh
gray 4air in the Senate and uoneo 80
Representatives 10 strff var,rol 49,