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a great length, while the Egyptians often removed 

 it as an incumbrance. There is no " fashion " con- 

 nected with the hair, in vogue at the present time, 

 which is new. It is not a modern idea to resort to 

 borrowed or " false " hair to satisfy the caprioe of 

 fashion, neither is it to dye the hair, or dress it with 

 unguents and oily substances. 



The Greek, Egyptian, Carthaginian, and Ro- 

 man ladies, more than twenty-five centuries ago, 

 made use of the most extravagant quantities of 

 borrowed hair, and they wound it into large protu- 

 berances upon the back of their heads, and to keep 

 it in place used "hair-pins" of precisely the form 

 in use at the present time. The Roman women of 

 the time of Augustus were especially pleased when 

 they could outdo their rivals in piling upon their 

 heads the highest tower of borrowed locks. They 

 also arranged rows of curls formally around the 

 sides of the head, and often the very fashionable 

 damsels would have pendent curls in addition. An 

 extensive commerce was carried on in hair, and 

 after the conquest of Gaul, blonde hair, such as was 

 grown upon the heads of German girls, became 

 fashionable at Rome, and many a poor child of the 

 forests upon the banks of the Rhine parted with 

 her locks to adorn the wives and daughters of the 

 proud conquerors. The great Caesar indeed, in a 

 most cruel manner, cut off the hair of the van- 



