Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 420
tocut off their Hair then we have reason to take up a lamen-tation over the sin of our first Parents which hath occa-sioned so many Persons in our Congregation to be sickly,weakly, crazy Persons. Long Ruffianly or Russianly (I know notwhich word is right) hair equally worried the par-sons.… … reprinted, and is full of logical arguments. Thisoffence was named on the list of existing evils whichwas made by the general court: that the men worelong hair like womens hair. Still, the Puritan mag-istrates, omnipotent as they were in small things,did not dare to force the becurled citizens of…
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