TATTOOED HEAD. 
CHAPTER XI. 
PERSONAL ORNAMENTS. 
In every age and nation, men have been dissatisfied with 
their natural appearance, and have adopted various ways of 
improving it, which implies a general conviction of natural 
deficiency, and this runs through all grades of society. When 
a greater impression was to be made, man did not trust to his 
natural countenance to make it, but called in the aid of various 
adjuncts. To give the Bishop the venerable look becoming 
his high and sacred office, a wig, almost as large and white as 
the fleece of a lamb, was deemed requisite. This strange idea, 
however, has passed away ; the good sense of the age caused 
it to be laid aside at the proper time, for had it been longer 
persisted in, it would doubtless have had a contrary effect to 
