, 1874-02-01

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FAlH HAIR had THE CALL.
| oEnnotteB made virtue Of necessity: lila ~.
unsempted people, they died poor but bonass ".ns1
though Las was one that did not, Tha 1noAs; 1;as ':
Athentan BLONDES is too long to recount =. ~
stretches to the crack Of Grecian doom M It
they invade the poetry Of Rome and hannt 1Ien hal
starrys H. 1a1r.halred pagan ghosts. In Tircirs ifs
mortal co1ors. Horace makes no secrat aas u, n ~
preference, and Ovid likes his maids rathe- m a'7
| derdone, the redder the iuicier. ILL.,
After the fall OF the Roman Empira TIM H.. ,
shas and Lesbias, the Chloes and LYdiss ~ ~
ensna5ed the hearts Of Latin poets, went on ont
ing back again in tho revival Of tssts ssoup sg,
letters, first timidly neeping from 11,a tha
page OF Illuminated m;ssals, then II t;so o
sougs Of jougleur and troubadour. Tho rho
poets as they ca1ne on caught up the oI5
strain Petrarch, Tasso, aud Ariosto and al ~ ~
samF taiey, and nearly all the Malounas mi
AaSaa22.s OF Italian aud Spanish art aso
BRILLIANT BLONDES.
Il1e taste OF Franco Was for tresses h,,ndo
lettes" and 1T blondes chevenx," and tbs ia.nnn.
women who led statesmen about and w,stoJ 49,.
revenues Of kingdoms or SO. armies in not;on eaa
uatil the dcst}l Of Louis Quatorze, curIel g1a,a,:
ing ffesses- Among these, aud best known ~
all, Was tue beautiful, Infamous Lucreta Ro11;. =.
the rarest beauty. an Italian blonde. This ia ~
poets assertion, no Painters whim, but m.t-
ter OF proof. In the Arnbrasian library At W;ia,
there Is lock Of the Dorgia'a hair. Byron h.d
snsle hair from it; Leigh Hunt describes l..
and Landor writes OF it: 81 Calm hair meanaa,''
ing with pellucid gold"
The dawn Of English literature .euews sue.
e1aaco 20 1afs women Claucer's heroines Lays
"ooLDEH HERES"
and Sponsor will have no other. He c,1,a !,
''beautys lovely bait, =" when Britomart reyeals
herself. 'sA1s
About her backo and all her bodie round:
Like "a tho shining skye In soumnr,s night
1s creasted with all lines Of nc1ie Hight
The Ehzabethan poets matlp it not only rho
golden age Of literature. but OF hair also. Thev
were OF one mlL1 about it. Beaumont a,j
Fletcher. NARROW. Middleton, and esoeci,ll7
Robert Greene. the original type Of the Doheui.t
we're all blonde worsnipers- Greene saya of
Silvestro's Ladie:
Her lair Of golden hue doth dim the besms
That proud Apollo g1Te:h from lis cosch.
And in the Penitcpt Palmer ode:
thought my mistress hair we're gold.
And IN their locks my heart fold
Her amber treEses ware tile sight
That wrapped me in vain delight.
Shakespeare thinks less of the color OF hair thai
other poats the master deals rather With cian
acter,
RUT OF PoRTA IIE SAYS:
Her sunny .vcb hing on her temples Like eo1asu
And in his GSth sonnet he ajludes to the custom
OF robbins the skulls Of the dead OF "coldcD
tresses to adofn the heads OF the living, pr.c-
tice the thought OF which must give US pause
Raro Ben Jopson prefers ''crisp curls." and
Likes "chestnut color, OF gold upon black, )" No
doubt that was Lila toast ut the Mermaid, drank
in cups Of sack and canarie. Tho fashion vaa
1naltered in England through the seventeenth
century. Tho d.ssolnte court OF the Resto7ar
tion WIS alive with sE,gawling women with
T1SE-DuGEEESE3 EYzs AND YELLOW HAIR
Charles himself kept . ton weight OF them ST.
Peter LeIy painted their portraits.
There was no change Until Louis tho Four
:eenrh, the Granlo '1onarque condcscende{l to
lie, after whom was the general doiuga. At lis
'ourt every woman WHO respected herself wa
:itler . natural OF an artificial blonde no con-
'ronlise WAS possible. In fact, the rula WAS tod
trict, and like all tyranny, produced revolution.
;reat monarch he'd gone to enliyen tic shades
nth their wit, and to captiyate tho ghosts with
heir manners. the reign Of blonde beauty was
'ver. Ideallam gave place to materialiam. The
runettes came Htorming into power and took
utter feminine revenge. ThoY
MADE IT HOT FOR BLONDES
They even got them into contempt. The DE-
criptlve terms of beauty were changed. There
'as no more talk OF auburn ard gold red
eads" was tue common phrase. Beauty had
avou trosses, and women wore beautiful not q
le golden dawn, but like tho warm summer
lidnight. Tho brunettes had long and undis-
1ted reign, until, Us have remarked the
rench Empress commenced re-alrauSeYnent
the world Of fashion and sentiment With
10 decline Of her power, the worship Of the
ondos will probably subside, and we shall soon
10 the last Of yellow jute and aha1l speak a
,rnerly Of "tow-heads and "carrots."