It is the custom in European, if not in all American, prisons to
shave the head and face of criminals in order to have the full
force of the moral expression furnished by the contour of one
and the outlines of the other. A profusion of hair may disguise
the head whose shape often reveals a degree of turpitude. A
luxuriant mustache may hide a mouth about which lurks the
evidence of the basest instincts. (Text.)--San Francisco
_Chronicle_.
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