STUDIES IN HAIR-ANCIENT AND MODERN.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 114, 10 November 1900, Page 3 (Supplement)

STUDIES IN HAIR-ANCIENT AND MODERN.

A correspondent writes to a Home paper: — "Having a few hours to spare, I strolled into the Roman Gallery of the British Museum, where there are bust portraits in marble of celebrities and others who lived in the first and second centuries of the Christian era, and the thought struck me that both old and, young were blessed with good heads of hair. I then 1 became interested and wjnfc through the Greek, Assyrian, and Egyptian rooms, but I could not find one with a bald head ; the majority have profuse curly locks. So far as we know, they did not use hair promoters or restorers, which may account for the fact. I then turned my steps to St. Paul's Cathedral and studied the statues. I found several bald heads, the majority with high logheads and scanty locks, and none to come up to the Roman's curly head. On«; has only to take notice at. a place of amusement when the National Anthem is play* ed, and the sterner sex uncover, to be convinced of the fact that men as a body are getting balder every 'Woman s glory is her hair.' Presently we shall have to add to that, 'and man's glory is his wig.' "