Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1892 — When Wig-Wearing was Universal. [ARTICLE]

When Wig-Wearing was Universal.

A oentury and a half ago wig-wearing was at it* height, and little boys four or five years of age submitted to having their heads shaven preparatory to donning their false head-dresses. A Leyden professor—Rivers by name —shocked all churches by declaring that a Christian must necessarily wear a wig or be eternally loßt. On the other hand, Dr. Thiers, a celebrated Catholic, assailed wig-wearing priests in a good-sized volume. The ancient Egyptians all wore wigs, and the early Christians from A. D. 427 to A. D. 917 considered a false bead-corering a badge of distinction. This, too, in direct opposition to Tertullian, who in vain declared them devices and inventions of the devil, and Clement of Alexandria, who warned his hearers that when the sacred hands of the clergy were laid on their heads' the blessing would not penetrate through the false hair. —[St. Louis Republic.