PIGTAILS AND POLITICS.
Sir—lt is interesting to note that tho Chinese are not plomi in malting the abolition of the pig-tail the outward and visible sign of political progress. I was told by my grandfather that in tho closing years of tho 18th century, when he was "a boy at Eton, he and other scions of the old Whig .families, bv common consent, cut off their pig-tails to show their sympathy with tho French roTolutionary doctrines of liberty, equality, nnd fraternity. This, at. a Tory School like Eton, required considerable. courage, for a fashion of dress which included the pigtail was there and then rigorously held' to be the badge of a gentleman. But most boys at English' schools were then as now keen politicians, and tlicy were carried away by the speeches of Fox and the writings of Eoussenu. History repeats itself.—l am, etc., G. E. A. December 19, 1010.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1006, 22 December 1910, Page 9
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151PIGTAILS AND POLITICS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1006, 22 December 1910, Page 9
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