The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-08
M E N, w MEN
 AND T HIN G s

and it's mode of dressing among the He brews. and also given some data con corning it's treatment by the Greek. and Romans.
 am now going to fry an l~give some interesting facts of the changing modes of wearing it among some of the other peoples who come into history after the ancients.- Gauls and Britons wore long flowing locks; but the Romans in- troduced among them the custom oi wearing the hair short.
 The Saxons. who were proud of their long, fair hair, wore it loose. divided in the middle. The Normans cut their hair short curiously shaving the backs of their heads, but after the conquest. soon began to copy the English custom of long hair. It will be seen by this that while the Norman invasion changed the mode of living yet in turn tho in vaders adopted the style of che con quered country in the matter 0: dressing the hair.
 It would make an interesting and in- forming article, or even volume, if some one would get the information and hav- ing digested it, set it out in a compTe- hensive way showing just how the wearing of the hair has had its influ- ence on various peoples from the time of the ancients down t, the present day. I know that certain books look ing more to the commercial side of the question have been publ shed in the in- terest of trade.
 One could easily pass up the Baby lonians, Chaldeans, Assyrians. Egyp- tians, and even the Hebrews and the Greek and Romans, and still have enough territory left to make a fascl- hating story. Turning on- back on both the Roman Empire and the repub- lic and starting after the birth of Christ. one couid set i starting point and choose for q tex, or use as a the sis, Paulg regarding it a shame for man to wear long hair. though the re- verse for the, woman.
 It could be easily shown that in srite
  years there is still quite Pauline fol- lowing in the twentieth century among the public which, however wrong 1t may be, cleave to the first century prej- udice, against long haired men and short-haired women" It will be re- called that for long time the male temperance reformer was always pie tured in cartoons as "long-haired" in dividual while the female of the spe- cfes was invariably presented with he. hair cut short
 But it is not always safe to take the coiffure of either & man or woman as a sure index to their characters, for n spite of the Pauline intsrdi.tion, two of my best friends in the Baptist min istry are men who were famed for their long flowing locks. I refer to the late pr. James B. Hawthorne. one of the greatesy pulDis orators of the nineteenth century, and q man of re- markable courage, an1 t, Dr. Len C. Broughton. in the opinion of Sam Jones. a man in whom hair and backbone predominated. Ear be it from me to take up any exarrp.ns of r'.,-t-ha!red women who have made their names synonym for bravery.
 
 The fact however, remains that among the early Christians the custom of men wearing short hair came into vogue. I haven't the time or the in clination to take up in detail the cus- tom of the religious orders which have shaved their heads in part. I suppose they found their warrant in so doing from the Nazarites, and also from the fact that on one occasion even the great apostle himself navins shorE his head to keep vow.
 Henry I and Henry II favored the Norman mode; but long hair became again fashionable after their deaths. In the days of Henry III the hair was cut half way to the shoulders, waved and curled; while the women confined their tresSes in cauls of gold network. Subsequently mems hair was cropped all around in straight line. and the women wore wimples, showing only a solitary curl on the forehead. In the times of Edward W and Henry VII haIr was again worn long; while Henry VIII and his subjects favored closely cropped | heads.
 I might put in here by way of paren- thesis that in France, in the time of King Francis I, long hair was worn at court; but the king, proud of his wound | on his head, himself wore short hair, in the Italian and Swiss fashion, which soon became genera. I think all The | more of the French King for the very human trait of wishing to exhibit his | honorable scars.s In tn reign of Louis | XIII the fashion of wearing long hair l was revived in France, and it became | desirable to have the hair curling
 Under Elizabeth, false hair was greatly worn. padded with cushions, under -propped, with forks, wires etc., | and adorned with gold. pearls and | precious stones. but men wore their | hair short; but it is we'll known that | the gallants of Charles Is time wore | their hair in long, flowing locks, while the closely cropped hair of the Puri- | tans brought the name of "Roundheads" down upon them. If we could general ize' from the Cromwellian ,nflict it | would be easy to prove that the shopt- haired men outfought .he long haired ones.
 Charles II brought Fr snch fashions into Eneland; men wore enormous pe- rukes, falling over their shoulders; women spread their hair out at the sides over cushions, with ringlets fall ing therefrom. In the reign of Queen