thousands of years, and may be yet seen depicted
upon the walls of Egyptian temples in the precise
forms as worn at present, while in modern times the
perfection of art has been in the wig of a Lord
Chancellor. Although this latter example of the
result of science is not the actual hair of the wearer,
it adds an imposing glow of wisdom to the general
appearance, and may have originated as a necessity
where a deficiency of sagacity had existed, and where
the absence of years required the fictitious crown of
grey old age. A barrister in his wig, and the same
amount of learning without the wig, is a very different
affair, he is an imperfect shadow of himself. Nevertheless,
among civilized nations, the men do not
generally bestow much anxiety upon the fashion of
their hair; the labour in this branch of art is generally
performed by the women, who in all countries and
climes, and in every stage of civilization, bestow the
greatest pains upon the perfection of the coiffure, the
various arrangements of which might, I should imagine,
be estimated by the million. In some countries they
are not even contented with the natural colour of the
hair, either if black or blonde, but they use a pigment
that turns it red. I only noticed this among the
Somauli tribe; and that of the Nuehr, who are one of
the wildest savages of the White Nile, until I returned
to England, where I found the custom was becoming
general among the civilized, and that ladies were
adopting the lovely tint of tbe British fox. The
Arab women do not indulge in fashions; strictly conTHE
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