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po hemn. *; 
568 Chignons. 
who love their lords,’ had the misfortune to shake off the 
entire pyramid of hair! Accordingly, her fashionable and 
illustrious ladies followed suit, and appeared at Court in the 
simple locks that Nature had provided them with. 
The popular opinion leads to a belief that most of the 
hair which is supposed to add so much beauty to this sham 
adornment of the modern dele, is imported from Germany. 
After all, fashion shifts nearly as much as a duly shaken 
kaleidoscope. About the date of the battle of Waterloo, 
we read (in the Quarterly Review), the light German hair 
was principally called for. “This fancy, or predilection, 
went out about the epoch of the Napoleonic restoration, 
and the darker shades of brown (chiefly from France), 
became the rage.” At our present date of writing, the 
saffron tint is once more in vogue. We remember to have 
read somewhere that immense profits are realised by 
dealers in hair, who purchase it wholesale from the 
Bretonnese peasantry at “Fairs” fora nominal consideration. 
It is curious, and not altogether without profit or 
interest, to compare past with present times. There is this 
difference between 1852 and 1866. The reviewer from 
whose remarks we have previously quoted, winds up 
his instructive article with these observations) me 
is needless to add that anything like hirsute luxuriance 
about the sacerdotal physiognomy is offensive to every 
orthodox admirer of the va media, to all the Anglican 
community, it is probable, excepting some inveterate 
embroideresses of red and blue altar cloths and tall curate’s 
slippers.” 
Nous avons changé tout cela—a change has come o’er the 
spirit of the dream. Our Divines and embryo Divines 
cultivate moustachios, and indulge in a profusion of beard 
and whisker! 
Before we conclude our discursive article, which, begin- 
ning with the name of a heathen, has descended to these 
ritualistic times—glancing, ex passant, at the hirsute vagaries 
of some of our clergy—a word or two on chignons, regarded 
from a sanitary point of view, may not be thrown away 
upon our fair readers. While we think it right to calm 
their natural fears regarding gregarines—for there is little 
doubt that in this case a mountain was made out of a very 
nasty molehill; and that the savant who fancied he dis- 
covered them mistook the fictions in his own head for facts - 
in the heads of the ladies; and would have been better 
employed in taking out the bee from his own, than in 
