Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-11-28

chant of Venice" speaking of yellow hair
say:
And YOU shslI see it purchased by the weight
Which therein works miracle of nature,
I Making them lightest that wear most OF it;
So are those crsped. snaky, golden locks,
/ Which makes such wanton gambols with the vino
Upon supposed fairness, often known
/ To be the dOwry of a second head
! The scuI that bred them in the sepulchre.
! About the only exceptions we find to this
custom in ancient times are those of Sappho
the "Tenth muse" of Plato Julius Caesar
and Theseus. Sappho is said to have had
very dark hair, Alceus, one of her lovers,
calls her
ozark haired, chaste sweetly, smiling sapphO,"
an Antipater speaks of her as
seThe beautiful dark-haired woman of Lesbos
Julius Cesar was extremely negligent of
his hair, and had dark hair while Theseus
who, according to Plutarch, was a "dark
haired handsome you'll" i" won Ariadne by a
total neglect of hair-dressing.
Milto. better known as Aspasia, so called
from her great resemblance to that great
beauty, is represented "with yellow hair, the
locks little curled, and long and beautifully
flowing" She was the only woman in the
Court of Cyrus of Persia whose fayorite
she became, who did not color or adorn her
hair. From this we Judge this custom was
often at variance with the simplicity of Ma
ture.
Bailv, whom we cannot but look upon as
madman, yet whose lines in their mad
ness are even more grand than those of Lee,
says in a strain gorgeously beautiful;
srwIh liFhtsome brow, and beanag eyes and bright,
! Long glnri0us locks. which drop upon the cheek,
/ Like gold-husd cloud-lakes on the rosy morn"
And Byron speaks of 'long floating au-
burn curls," and GLOSSY ringlets,"
Hector according to Homer, had black
hair, and his great enemy Achilles had yel-
low hair. Describing the funeral rites of
Patroclus, Homer says:
! HPatroclus decent on the appointed ground
They place, and heap the sylvan peataround,
Aud from his head divides the yellow hair:
Those Gazing locks tIom which bis youth be vowed,
And sacred grew, TO Spereluis' honored food"
Alexander the great hal long flowing
hair and richly CURED. His mother is rep
resented in medals of her AGE, according to
PIutarch, with leaves gracefully intertwined
in her hair TWAS custom with the an
clients topowdert their hair yellow, as it lately
was to powder white.
Boards have always been consi dered as
type of wisdom. Lucian speaks of several
cases in which the beard of man was taken
as the recommendation of his skill in phys
ic. The, golden beard of 1Esculapius is
quite famous.
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having been translated by the Soothsayers
to read that "a person of courage and supe-
rior beauty should take the reins of govern
ment IN his hands, and suppress the tnmults
with which Rome was then agitated." Sylla,
who was then in power, said, 81 amthe man,
for nv locks of gold arc sufficient proof of
my beauty"
Boadicea had yellow hair which fell in
rich profusion down to her thighs
The Emperor Nero had yellow hair, as
did also his wife Poppe Sabina. A single |
hair coming out of her head Nero caused it
to be fastened with gold to the head of the
statute of Juno.
Byron, who had an appreciative eye for
every point of female beauty, and language
no less beautiful to express it, says, of gold |
en- locks:
'Here can trace the locks of gold
Which round the snowy forehead wave"
And again:
'Tlat form with eyes dark and cheek so fair,
And auburn Of gemmed and braided hair,
With shape Of fairly lghtness."
Charlemagne had hair of an unusual col
or for man in the prime of life-beauti-
fully white.
Lucretia Borgia was possessed of hair
which caught and charmed the eye of Lord
Byron, and that tasteful Judge of beauty,
Leigh Hunt; added to the beauties of be-
ing a golden hue, and luxuriant, falling in
rich profusion over her shoulders, it possess
ed the charm of length and fineness. Leigh
Hunt, in that beautiful article published in
the "Indieatorp on "Female Beautv," after
stating he is in possession of a single hair
of this mysterious and beautiful being says:
1--WE quote from memory,) "If ever hair was
gold it's this; it is not red; it is not yellow;
it is not auburn; it is golden, and naught
else, and though natural looking, too, must
have had a surprising appearance in mass.
Lucretia, beautiful in every respect must
have looked like vision in a picture-an
angel from the sum
Mary Stuart, in childhood, had yellow
hair, but in age she wore false yellow to
conceal her gray locks. BrantOme says Of
her gray hair:
"SfheaE-si boHde--st cendres." ID |,
Elizabeth of England wore false hair,
and that red! "There is no accounting for
tastes" .f-F e....,t
Cervantes, the author of "Don Quixote,n
had brown hair. His taste was in favor of
yellow. i4 aaa h
Tasso, the great epic poet had yellow and
sung of no other.
A sketch of the Countess Guiccieoli
reads thus: aHer hair, which is ungathered
on her head, plays overher falling shoulders
in a profusion of natural ringlets of the
the darkest auburn"
The French first introduced powdered
hair as beauty, and among the first whom
we heard of as using powderis Annie of
Austria wife Of ,nuis XIII rhoan hair woe