New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . istorian tells us that when he walked inthe sun his locks glittered like fire, so that some believed thatthey had been sprinkled with gold dust. DYEING THE HAIR. It is true that sprinkling wnth gold dust was often practicedby the ancients. According to Josephus, the horse-guardsof Solomon daily strewed their hair with gold, which glitteredin the sun. The muchprized golden tint was alsoproduced by some chemicalprocess now unknowm.^lian, speaking of Atal
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . istorian tells us that when he walked inthe sun his locks glittered like fire, so that some believed thatthey had been sprinkled with gold dust. DYEING THE HAIR. It is true that sprinkling wnth gold dust was often practicedby the ancients. According to Josephus, the horse-guardsof Solomon daily strewed their hair with gold, which glitteredin the sun. The muchprized golden tint was alsoproduced by some chemicalprocess now unknowm.^lian, speaking of Atalanta,says that the color of herhair was yellow, not producedby any womanly art, but al-together natural. He wouldnot have spoken this way ifthe art had not been wellknown at his day, Tertullianof Garthage, one of the fa-thers of the African Ghurch,also speaks of some of hisblack-haired countrywomenas constantly employed ingiving their hair a fair centuries later, St, Jerome notices the custom of dyeingthe hair reA^ which was then the favorite color. It was per-haps about this time (f ir we can not now recall the exact date) 12*. Fig. 878.—QtiEKN Ohrirtiva. 274 THE HAIR AND BEARD. that Claudia, surnamed Rufina (red-haired), a celebratedBritish lady, attracted so much attention at Rome. Apropos^it is related of the ancient Britons, that, not content with thenatural color of their hair, which was generally fair or yellow,they made use of washes to render it still brighter. The art of converting black or dark-colored hair into fiirhas been practiced, according to Mrs. Jameson, in moremodern times. She says: Every one must remember, in theVenetian pictures, not only the peculiar luxuriance, but thepeculiar color of the hair—of every golden tint, from a richfull shade of auburn to a sort of yellow, flaxen hue, or rathernot flaxen, but like raw silk. I have often been asked if thesepale-golden masses of hair could always have been the contrary, the color was o
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