Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1903 — Battered Locks. [ARTICLE]

Battered Locks.

In Abyssirtla one method of doing the hair that is adopted by warriors is to stroll into the market pjace, buy a pound of butter and, putting It upo the top of the hair, stand still while the sun arranges things. When the halr-is thus dressed with melted butter the Abyssinian knows that fate cannot or will not touch him. He Is a picture of well dressed elegance done in oils. Another style is to tress the hair, and every tress means something. A young warrior with a head of hair untressed is Of no account He has not yet killed a man. When, however, he has done so all his hair is shaved off except enough to make one tress, which is of the same signification as a notch on a pistol stock. After that every man he kills entitles him to add another tress until as a conquering hero of 100 tresses he in. a formidable man to try conclusions with. ' v”