The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-01
Boards AND BATTLES.

More than once a difference in the
fashion of wearing the hair has de-
noted division of factions (writes
contributor to Pearson 8 Weekly.
We have the wel-known examples of
the roundheads and the cavaliers. ~To
the former, long, curly hair was an
abomination, they hated the flowing
locks of the gay cavaliers, and they
regarded such tEesses as a symbol Of
ungodliness.
On the other hand, the cavaliers re-
garded the closely-eropped hair of the
stern-visaged roundheads as symbol
of narrow-mindedness, bigotry and cant.
At the time of the conquest the Eng
lish wore their hair long both upon
the head and the upper lip, while the
chin was kept bare. The Normans, OF
the contrary, wore their hair very short,
so that Harold IS spies reported to the
king: "The host did almost seem to
be priests, because they had all their.
face and both lips shaven.
After the invasion the difference in
appearance of the victors and the VAN;
pushed was accentuated by the tyran-
nv which compelled the Saxons to grow
all IHG1f HAIL. In ldt6I udy but ACdAV1S,
SO far as regarding it as sign of
severity, took good care to let their
hair grow on purpose, ehectually TO
distinguish themselves from the Nor
mans.
The fashion of wearing long hair
spread, and caused almost endless
bother between the people and the
clergy, who based their objection upon
St Paul s declaration that long hair
was shame unto a man. "
The Pope decreed that long haired
people should be communicated when
living, and should not be prayed for
when dead. From nearly every pull
pit the evil of long hair was Published,
and the wearers were cursed. All this
was in vain, fashion laughed at it,
and king and subject wore ringlets in
defiance of the shorn priests.
This war between the long haired and
the cropped soon had serious conse-
quences. There were all kinds of
tumult, some of which had farreaching
results; but it was in France where the
question of the length of the hair al
tered history.
Louis VII, unlike the disobedient
English, obeyed the iniunctions of the
| church and cut off all his flowing curls,
until he resembled monk instead of a
| king
This caused the greatest consterna-
tion at the court, and the lively Eleanor
of Guienne did nothing but make fun
of her lord to the courts gallants. In
| fact. she lost all affection for the shorn
sovereign, whom she looked upon with
contempt.
Then came all manner of differences,
| terminating in divorce and the loss of
| Guienne and Potion to the French SOW
ereigns. The tickle Eleanor married the
long haired Henry, who nafterward
reigned as Henry II of England, and
she bestowed upon him those rich prov
inces of France Had Louis VII not
cut off his hair, the history of the
world would have been quite different.
Peter the Great was monarch who
decided that the Russians should be
shaven, under penalty of a heavy tax
for such as preferred to grow boards
4 The receipt which was given for this
tax consisted of copper token bearing
a hairy face on the one side and the
date on the other No man wearing
a beard could enter town unless he
produced one of these borodovaia,'
which had to be renewed each year.