The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-07-29
READING FOR THE LADIES.
A New Fashion Of Wearing the Hair

Spite of social science gatherings and
s;ronyminded women, Beauty will not
take kindly to Philosophy; the ladies'
bless them cOntemptuOusly turn up
their pretty noses at the dogmatic asser'
tions of its priests. and delight in acting
in direct opposition to their pet theories
Not long ago, the admirers of blue eyes
and fair hair were Disguised by certain
wise men announcing that the blonde
was rapidly becoming extinct, failing to
hold her own even in her native North.
Let them take heart and rejoice Fash
ION with the feminine love OF contra
dictiOn) has determined to thwart the
disciples of the new school, and set nat.
ural selection at defiance, and the hat
has gone forth that the blonde is the
true type of beauty, and golden your on
ly hair. Amber-colored locks are liter.
ally worth their weight in gold, and all
the hair-markets Of Europe are being ran
sacked to enable Partisan bellies to witch
mankind with beauty not their own, en-
cept by right of purchase.
GOLDEN LoCKs-oLD FASHION REVIVED.
This rage for sunny locks is no new
folly; it is but an addition to the long
list of revivals this so-called age of pro.
gress has witnessed. Fashions last
freak has not even the dubious merit OF
novelty. The toilet-tables of would-be
Greek beauties were furnished with vile
compositions for transforming dark into
light tresses. The ladies of Rome, aff1ict-
ed with similar madness, adopted the
like practices; and Ovid bitterly cOnl-
plains of the result of his mistreSss eX-
pcriments, (Which seem to have been
about as successful as those of Iittlebat
Titmouse), turning the poets favorite
tresses to a nondescript tint, neither
black nor golden, but mixture of both,
more curious than satisfactory. In the
middle of the fourteenth century, yellow
hair became the rage once more, a fash
ion the painters did their part to perpet-
uatc by giving golden locks to all THEN
Mad9nnas, saints and goddesses. In
England, the mania lasted through Eliz-
abeth's reign, when
Mighty hands forget their maAliness
Drawn with the power of heart robbing eye.
And wrapped In letters Of a golden tress.
WIGS, AND HOW THEY WERE OBTAINED.
Not content with employing art to
change the original color of their hair,
or more probably disappointed with the
results of such efforts at improving na-
ture, fashionable danes hid their despised
locks with horse hair periwigs of the
coveted hue or prevailed upon poverty s
golden-haired daughters to sell them the
browning glory of their womanhood.-
Little children were decoyed into pri-
vate places, despoiled of their hair, and
sent shorn but rejoicing away, happy in
the unwonted possession of a penny or two
Even the dead were not secure against
the unscrupulous caterers to fashion,
Does not Shakespeare tell us:
So are those crisped, snaky, golden locks,
Which make such wanton gambols with the wind
Upon supposed fairness often know
To be the dowry of q second head A.
The skull that bred them In the sepulchre.
sCNNY-HAIRED HEROTNEs OF HISTORY
AND ROMANCE.
The ancient poets, as became the de-
scendants of the golden-tressed god. de-
lighted in sunny-haired heroines, and
their modern brethren of the Tyre have
fallen in their wake. Taso draws his
Amazon with locks spreading like sun
beams on the wind. and decks the brows
both of Arminia and and the false Armi.
da with hair of the same bright tint
Chaucer's Emile boosted yellow hair "a
yard long, guess; and every one of
Spencer's women are g0lden-tressed.
Shakespeare, more catholic in his tastes,
loved q black.haired lady; but even he
seems doubtful as to the wisdom Of his
admiration, as though he believed with
Bergerac, that as man must necessarily
become slave to beauty, it was far bet
ter to be deprived of liberty by golden
chains than hempen cords or iron letters.
He makes false Cressida's uncle assert
that his niece would be more beautiful
than Helen herself "an' her hair was not
somewhat darker;" and we find more
than one golden haired beauty among
his fair creations. POtent's Julia has
locks of perfect yellow; and both the
wife and daughter of Pericles are en-
dowed by the poet with tresses of bright
gold. Lucrece's hair he tells us, like
golden threads played with her breath
While Bassania says Of Portia:
4s7 s.- Her sunny locks
Hang on her temples like golden fleece,
Which makes her seat of Belmont Colchis'
strand,
Aud many Jasons come in quest of her
And again contemplating her portrait
after his fortunate essay ut riddle-read.
ing
tsfta In her hairs
The painter plays the spider, and hath woven
A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men,
Faster than gnata In cobwebs
Byron preferred to sing the praises of
dark haired damsels but Scott's bride OF
LammermOor has locks of shadowy gold,
divided on q brow of exquisite white
ness, like = CLEAN of broken and paid
sunshine upon hill of snow : and Rose
Bradwardine is "a very pretty girl of the
Scotch cast of beauty, that is with pro-
fusion of hail of paley gold Hoods au-
riferous heroine, Miss Kilmansegg, as a
matter of course, had golden hair as well
as q golden leg. The Laureate pictures
Aphrodite, in the famous trial of beauty,
drawing FsfE9 aYg
From her warm brow and bosom her deep hair
A-'',c.ir' ~olden round her lucin threat
AzA sA6uldef. ~ Is
One OF the charms of come-into- the gar.
denMaud Is her sunny hair; and we are
told how the shadow Of the flowers stole
the garden gloss from the tresses Of the
gardeners daughter a. she stood at the
garden porch. Poor wilfhl Elaine, %
suddenly snitten with the lore which