Garland Globe | 1908-08-15 | Page 8 | When Men Wore Wigs

When Men Wore Wigs. When thoy begin to talk' about tariff j it Is interesting to look back over the i pages of history and seo what things . woro at ono tlmo considered necessities. necessi-ties. In tho tlmo of Sir William Pitt It was considered highly Improper for a man to appear without his hair powdered, pow-dered, so Pitt put a tax on tho powder, tho guinea pig tax as It was called. In consequence, the Whlg3 cut off their queues nnd only men servants wero allowed hair powder. It was Anally bo unremuneratlvo that tho tax was ro-movod.