Show origin of nun s headdress very few persons says a french paper know the origin of the head dress which so many nuns wear and which hides so much of their faces it was formerly the custom for convents to send nuns to the various cities and towns for the purpose of collecting alms and as a rule rufe two nuns one old and the other young went to each place they wore small caps and were popularly I 1 as swallows of lent on a certain ash wednesday two of them succeeded in obtaining admission to ane kings palace in paris parts and though the monarch and his courtiers were at dinner they did not hesitate to solicit alms from them one of the nuns was very pretty and the young nobles who were feasting cast such bold glances at her that she blushed with shame whereupon the king rose from the table and taking his napkin folded it in two and placed it on her head in such a man mer that it congealed con sealed her blushes ever since that day it is said this kind of headdress has been worn by nuns |