The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-07-29

was her doom. is lowered with golden
rinplets; and the wronged Arthur sings
plafntively of his false queens golden
hair, with which he used to play nm
knowing and in blither spirit Browning
harps the praises of the noblest, purest,
surest, woman, whose locks
SIMMER than the wild-grape cluster,
Gush in golden plenty round her neck.
King Edward w., monarch extremely
susceptible to the charms OF womanklnd,
seems to have an especial liking for falr.
haired ladies-the pale yellow tresses OF
Elizabeth Woodville helped to raise her
to the royal chair as queen, and she had
to be content with sharing her consort's
affections with the frail goldsmith's wife,
of whom Dayton wrote:
They which do thy angel locks behold
As the base dross do but respect his gold;
And wish one hair before that massy heap.
And but one lock before the wealth OF Cheap.
Fair Rosamond's crisped locks are com
pared by an old balladist to threads OF
gold, and we prefer to believe him, rath-
ar than the more prosaic writer who as
esrta
MALICIOUS anne reports ner udlr WAS IT,
And that she smoothed 1t with a comb OF lead
Another Inflated beauty, Beatrice de
Cenci, was remarkable for her beautiful
golden hair; and golden lock that once
glittered on the head of Lucrezia Borgla,
now lies quietly among the treasurers OF
tee Vatican. Queen Catherine PARIS
hair was of this rare and splendid hue
Miss Strickland, who possesses a ringlet
taken from this queens head, after she
had lain in her grave for more than two
hundred years, describes it as exactly re-
sembling threads FURNISHED with gold
and singularly enough the daughter OF
GATHERINGS rival was rich in the same
respect. Elizabeth was proud of her
golden hair, and delighted to display it
for the admiration of her courtiers, Oh
course, her foes declared it was red, not
golden; and in miniature Of the time
the painter has certainly lent color to
the libel-as libel it undoubtedly was,
for some half dozen years ago, lock OF
the great queens hair was discovered in
a copy of Sidney's Arcadia at Wilton. II
had been presented to the Chivalric poet
by Elizabeth, and is described as soft
silky, and wavy, of beautiful golden
brown color, without tinge of red, and
still shining as though powdered with
gold dust. Mistress Anne Turner, the
wretched tool of the titled murderers
of Overbury, was famed for her yellow
hair as we'll as yellow starch. A rhym'
ing admirer of her beauty, who describes
her appearance after she had expiated
her crime at Tyburn says the
Locks like golden thread,
That used in youth to anshrine her globe like
head,
Hung carelessly down.
One world-famous lady owes her immor'
tality to her golden hair. Petrarch's
eyes wandering at church, fell upon Lau'
IA, arrayed in green mantle, on winch
her golden hair fell in plated tresscs, and
his heart was won for ever
The snare was set amid those threads of gold
To which love bound me fat.
In the Sonnets he is contoually rhapso.
dising about
The bright tresses which detied
The sun to match them in his noenday pride,
while he complains
The gold and Topaz of the sun on snow
aTo Sudlucu aoo'S LAoSS - N'i
Soaring the short green Of my liie's vaiu years.
The possessOrs of golden hair may
justly he proud of the homage paid to it
by poetry and art, and its admirers may
plead precedents without end to excuse
their enthusiasm. Not that any excuse
is nece ssary, for 10 genuine article al
ways was, is, and will be beautiful; but
that is no reason why every black-haired
and brown-haired damsel should be
seized with an insane desire to play the
part of the Fair Ono with the Golden
Locks, and dye in despairing rivalry
Let them remember that the colcr of hcI
hair was the one item IN his future wiic's
charms to which even the fastidiOus
Benedick was indifferent; and although
it may be true,
Fair tresses mans imperial race ensnarc,
And beauty draws us with single hair,
they may rest assured no such power
lies in locks of the nondescript, washed
out hues the silly followers of silly
fashion have made as familiar az they