Now, I put the question to you Seraphin, is not this sort of election jugglery far more ridiculous and disgusting than the most preposterous periwigs of the last century?
In the eighteenth century, they decorated their heads with periwigs and pigtails, making it a matter of conjecture whether both ladies and gentlemen were not in the act of developing themselves from monkeydom into manhood.
But in that age of periwigs this misfortune was of little importance.
Pepys, we have seen, wondered if periwigs would survive after the terrible plague.
These bushy periwigs are found also among the Kaffirs in Africa and among the Cafusos of South America.
Pruner-Bey, who appears to view these bushy periwigs as resulting from the natural growth of the hair, remarks that he has met in Europe three individuals whose hair had the same aspect.
He had heard too much talk of periwigs not to feel resolved to wear one himself.
Reaching the landing he crossed a small gallery, where hung portraits of historic Virginians--governors in periwigs and lace ruffles and statesmen of a later age in high neckcloths.
On the high plastered walls, above the book-shelves, rows of bygone Bassetts looked down on their departed possessions--stately and severe in the artificial severity of periwigs and starched ruffles.
Ribbon reigns triumphant: it ties our periwigsinto bunches at the ends; it hangs in loops round our waists; it ties our shirt-sleeves up in several places; it twists itself round our knees.
The periwigs so altered were known as short bobs, the bob being the fullness of the hair by the cheeks of the wig.
There is a fear of the hair of periwigs during the Plague.
Then, as my own hair was still short, I bought a couple of dark periwigs of my own colour, and put on, the better to go to Whitehall in.
Now, I put the question to you, Seraphin, is not this sort of election jugglery far more ridiculous and disgusting than the most preposterous periwigs of the last century?
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