Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1885 — Bald Heads in the Senate. [ARTICLE]

Bald Heads in the Senate.

Senator Edmunds, the presiding offieer of the Senate, has fallen into the habit of wearing a black silk skull cap; He is very bald, and the air of the Senate Chamber is uncomfortably cool to exposed cranial surfaces, causing colds and the consequent inconveniences. So he wears this little black cap all the day, in the committeerooms, in the Vice President’s chamber and in the chair of the Senate as its presiding officer. And there are some other heads hi the chamber quite as bald as his. The nearest approach to the system which Senator Edmunds has inaugurated is the course o*f Senator Williams, the hero of Cerro Gordon. He wears a wig. It is very neat and very well-fitting, but he has a way when he has occasion to stroke one side of it of taking hold of the opposite side to keep it in place, thus giving the illusion away at once. Senator Coke, of Texas, is one of the baldest men in the Senate. There is a vast expanse of “forehead,” extending away over the top of his head and down in the rear so far that there is only a fringe of gray hair running rpund from one ear to the other. Indeed, the fringe may be said to run clear around, for it is heavier in front, where there is a bunch of white beard. Cameron, of Wisconsin, is quite as destitute of capillary covering as those mentioned. His rather small head and retreating forehead fairly glisten in their polished nakedness, while on his face, in marked contrast, is a full growth of snowy white beard. Senator Harris, of Tennessee, is another bald one. He has a peculiarly shaped head, very wide at the back and narrow in front The fringe of hair running around the vast expanse of baldness is white as the driven show. Lapham and Sawyer are also baldheads, but the other Senators are fairly well supplied with head covering.— Baltimore American.