Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1910 — Judges’ Wigs. [ARTICLE]

Judges’ Wigs.

The wig is only worn by English barristers to give them a ster* judicial appearance, and no one can say that It fails in this respect. The custom was originated by a French judge in the seventeenth century when, happening to don a marquis’ wig one day, he found it gave him such a stern and dignified appearance that he decided to get one for himself and wear It at all times in court This he did, and the result was so satisfactory from a legal point of view, that not only judges, but barristers, also, took up the custom throughout Europe.