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we find, in our most elevated classes, that which seems so strange in 

 savages. 



The head of hair offers the same considerations. With savages as 

 with us, it is an object of no less special care. Negroes, Hottentots, 

 Polynesians, etc., stiffen their hair with grease, and color it with pow- 



Fio. 10. 



FuiAS Modes op dressing the Hair. 



ders, red, yellow, white, etc. (Fig. 10.) Everywhere they decorate 

 it with flowers, feathers of all sorts, brilliant crystals, grains of glass. 

 Well, our fathers pomaded and powdered themselves ; our women 

 pomade themselves, and put flowers, feathers, and diamonds, in their 



