Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1891 — Famous Wearers of Bangs. [ARTICLE]

Famous Wearers of Bangs.

Cleopatra wore her cow’s-tail red hair banged round her face and ears. Old Mother Eve is pictured with [ loose tresses playing about her brow and temples. Salome, the Carmencita of biblical days, wore a bang; so did Magdalen, the beautiful Queen Bess and the beaux and beauties that Van Dyke painted. Louisa, the lovely Queea of Prussia, pinned her tresses with a star and let them tty again windward about her cheeks; the fascinating Mm. Roland, whose dark, serious, changing eyes no artist could paint, pulled her shock ol brown hair within an inch of her eyebrows and bound it with a fillet: Mine, de Stael, the religious, skeptic, sloven, scholar, wit and queen of the salons frequented by such men as Talleyrand, Schiller, Maribeau, Voltaire, Rosseau, De Lafayette, Napoleon and Louis XIV, openly confessed that, although sne might not wash her face once in a week, her front hair had to be looked aftei every day, and she wore a head-dress of beaded crape with a frill of little spiral curls running across her fore< head from ear to ear that kept in curl, but caught fluff, feathers and any dust that was flyivg. Empress Josephine, Queen Hortense, Mari< Louise and other coquets of the firs' empire banged their nair,