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If we were inclined to commence this chapter with a text, we should have no difficulty in finding an appropriate one. For example, these words of St. Paul:—

"If a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her."

Or if our wish is to choose a graceful motto from some poet, what neater lines could be found than these:—

"Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair."

All writers, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, join in praising with unstinted terms the advantages which personal comeliness derives from a handsome head of hair.

In all ages women have been deeply sensitive of it, and even when fashion decreed that the flowing locks should be cropped, it was only to supply their place with artificial ones of more luxuriant amplitude. Few