JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT.
It is beginning to feel something like spring. However, we mustn’t be too certain, for April is the month for little tricks of all kinds. Let us be careful and not be caught by make-believe spring weather.
hair-braids in the olden time.
I’m told that, eight centuries ago, girls and women wore their hair in braids. Each woman had two braids, which she slipped separately into long, narrow cases of silk, or some other material, and wound with ribbon. They hung like base-ball bats. On the statue of a queen of those times, the braids, cased in this style, reached lower than the knees.
Years ago, every British sailor dressed his hair in a pigtail at the back, so that it hung
“Long and bushy and thick,
Like a pump-handle stuck on the end of a stick.”