The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26
BROTHER BILL ouIETEp.
By Tales Sister Tells Him of Times
 When Men Wore Wigs.

From the Boston Herald.
 'I was talking to sister yesterday" said Brother Blll "about the preposterous fashion that women wear their hair in nowadays, and. I told her just what think about 1t.
 " Well, I guess they'd be unpleasanter still to you, said sister, if you could get little closer to them and see what the rolls, as you call them, are made of, and how sometimes they don't match up, and all that; I think it's dreadful myself
 And then I talked some more about this frightful fashion. pitching into it hammer and tongs, and then I asked her why, why under the canopy did woman do such things? But by this time she was getting little angry at me for pitching into women so, and then she pitched into me.
 Because it's the style, you young chump,' sister said-she doesn't often say things like that to me. but this time she was sort of wrought up. When it's the style for women to wear false hair she says, they wear it, just as men did when 1t was the style for them to wear it.
 Men wear false hairv says, be- cause if I'd ever known they did I'd for gotten all about it, and the idea of mems wearing false hair certainly did astonish me.
 WHY, Ol COuTSe. bne says. DOn judges on the bench in England now wear great wigs. Didn't everybody in old times-all the men-wear false hair-wigs? !? Have you forgotten all the history you ever read or all the pictures you ever saw of men wearing wigs in this coun- try in colonial days? Didn't everybody, every man, wear false hair, a wig, in those days? Maybe they didn't all wear false hair; maybe som eof those wigs, oh Ia nf nr thing, but all the men then wore wigs.
 Why, William, you make me tired sister was quite off her trolley now. You don't suppose that long hair that George Washington used to wear down his back in 8 queue with nice ribbon tied around the end of 1t was his own hair, do you? You don't really think do you that George Washington had Buffalo Bill hair that he used to take down nights when he went to bed?
 Why that queue was a wig that he used to take off nights and hang on @ hook or 8 block or something! And do you know, Willy, I sometimes think I would like to have seen Washington with out his wig7' and sister softened little, here. and smiled as she thought how George would have looked without his Buffalo Bil lhair; but she was going again in minute.
 Don't you know the soudiers. every body in those days wore wigs? Haven't YOU seen millions of pictures of them in wigs? Haven't you read about how their wigs used to get twisted so that they were all awry? Haven't you read in stories about how men used to take on their wigs, indoors. for greater comfort. and how, when anybody came to the door they would clap on their wigs?
 "'False hair?' sister went on. now very indignant Men all wore false hair when it was the fashion for them to. and don't YOU suppose they all would if 1t was the function now? Wouldn't they all put on wigs and make themselves 1eurteen tnou- sand eight hundred and seventy-four mil lion times as ridiculous as women ever thought of doing? Why--
 "But by then I knew that the thing for me to do was to get my hat. for when little sister gets going like that it's time for little Willie to get out