The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-01
HOW THE HAIR is PARTED
Only One Parts His Hair Mathemati.
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.
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Washington, d. c., March 30.-A large
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 in which those
glasses are worn. Senator Chandler. for
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 do
not invade the bed-chambers of sleeping
statesmen, though at times they APP
proach in some instances. to this degree
of familiarity. But, did you ever see
picture of Senator Chandler in which
the NEST conspicuous feature of his face
was net his glasses? You never did. The
only time at which Mr. Chandler is with
cut his glasses is when he removes them
mcmentarly that he mag-feadjust them
on his nose. From one side OF the
glasses stretches long black-silk dou-
Die string the lower end of which
reaches down to his waist and is said
by some OF his intimate friends to u
hitched to his suspender button. MY
Chandler when he locks at man or
woman, or any other object which may
or may not interest him, tits his head
back and seems to try to look from I'M
der his glasses instead of through them.
Really, when Mr.. Chandler is looking at
a fellow Senator en- the floor OF the
chamber his head is poised as though he
were studying the weather through the
colored 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 long nose, and very sharp one,
and he poises his specks SO very near the
tip of it, they sometimes fall, while he
is delivering himself OF 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. He wears massive gold
Spcctacles. The bars which reach from
the bow to his ears are about one-third
OF an inch wide and correspCndingly thick.
AS he bends above his red mahogany
desk, his fat, round and hairless face and
his broad bald forehead seem to shine
with gold. When he readjusts these
spectacles and rises to address the Pres
ident of the Senate, it is hard to set
away from the suggestion that the Blue
Grass Republican is advertising optca:
goods.
Senator Hear is rarely to be seen with
out his slender steel-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 Allen, of Nebraska, is also con-
spicuous by reason of his spectacles, not
SO much because of 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 bread shoulders and rolls his eyes
upward as though the glasses that he
wears far down on his nose were
great impeachment to his vision.
culiar hair Then again there are those
whose hair is if the usual sort,-just or
binary, common hair. These predominant.
AS in the matter of money, so ii is i'll
the matter Of hair-some men have much
and some men have little. There are men
in Congress-even in the Senate, who are
absolutely INDECENT in the matter Of hair.
Spectators in the galleries of the House
Of Representatives ask during every day,
Who 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 MIR.
Lcrimer, the Chicago boss" The exact
color CT, Mr.. Lorimers hair is puzzle TO
every spectator who is not color blind.
Nobody ever tried to describe Mr.. Lori
mers hair without getting tangled up.
1t is not yellow, it is not red. it is not
purple, yet 1T is all of these at the same
time. Some persons have said that if
gold brick, ripe carrot and some sum
lner sunset could be mixed in a yellow
mortar with purple pestle the result
ing color would resemble that of Mr.
Lorimer's hair. And then too there is
such shocking mass CT this hair 1t is
piled up on his head and behind his head
II drops down upon his coat collar and q /
curling cowiick laps down over his right
eye. Mr.. Lorimer keeps his hair '.in
high state of cultivation" 1t is always I
brushed and FURNISHED.
Mr.. Nocnan, also of Chicago has at !
tractive hair. His hair is of the Span
ish type and is worn in the Quesada
style--bIack, long, with a suggestion OF
curliness, and brushed straight away
from the forehead and templesy From
the galleries he appears to be Span /
ish hidalgo or something like that, and
has come 10 be known as the member
from Puerto Rico. He pays strict atten
ticn to his hair, and it is said the bet
ter to show it off. that he chooses the
company CT bald head men on the floor
Of the House.
Though there is enough white aud
gray hair in the Senate and House of
Representatives to stuff several mat