, 1874-02-01
BLONDES.
The Fair Ones with Golden
Locks.
Sunny Trcsscs in Times Ancient and
Modern.
Prospect that Brunettes Will Again
Regain the Ascendency.

FToSpeCL L4aI hruneLteS VIII Aga1
II Regain the Ascendency.
John E. Russell in The Springfield CLASSY Republiea,
The CAUSES Of vast changes are often triyia
A word or touch may sway the destiny G
thousands yet unborn. In 1858, the world ha
been for mere than = century trnnIy governe
by the spell Of
OZARK WOMEN"
| The most philosophical md critical observe
would have failea to detect any symptom Of re-
volt from the established authority. But tn
hour Of change Was marked on the dial Of time
and the rulers OF the world wero about to resig,
| their power, in obedience to the Irresistible de-
cree Of overTuling Fashion.
| The late Louis Napoleon,-the saltimbanqu'
who threw lucky summersault into tho Imperl
| nj chair Of Gallo state, and reigned charlata1
Emperor until the rough German hand Beizet
him bY the tawdry collar aud tossed him inte
broken e1ile,-had, in this year, married the
ambitious Spanish
| COUNTESS DE TEEA
| The fair Spaniard had not the unmi1ed blood
of the Peninsula. A cold strain OF the Northern
| race had mingled in her veins. The Scotland of
the last century was miserablr poor, her gloomy
hills assailed By wintry tempests, and her cold
and lonely hoarths, though they made her "meet
nurse " for poesy and legend, afforded but sennty
support for her sturdy SONS, It was natural that
they should have been found fortune-hunting
wherever "silor was to be had, the Jest Of the
better endowed in every part Of the world. 4
rod haired clans1nan found his opportunity in
tho romantic land OF Spain, marrying above his
station, and becoming the proGeni.or Of tho En-
press Of Franco, who, by grace Of position, is
a or 7f If fnqI> m Tl,a
carrot style Of the Tweed blended we'll with the
olive OF Seville, and produced
THE BLONDE COMPLEXION,
to which all beauty for twenty yeazs has been
tho DEW Empress, longtime neglected blondes
awoLo to find themselves beauties. and their va
1ions grades Of tawny, yellow, golden, and red at
once commanded the homage Of mankind.
Tho deposed brnnettes, hurled from
not be content to suffer neglect, and.
finding their opportunity in the fact
that tho blonde market was unprepared
for the sudden demand and the article scarce
took extraordinary measures and produced an
dark hai1, or by blanc1ng dark hair to tho de-
sired shade. This mehod Of obtaining blondes.
and the vul9arit,es Of tue Engsl, t' burles7ue
troupes." had caused rnpid reaction in taste on
this side OF the Atlantic even before the exile OF
the Empress had made her authority doubtful.
and there is prospect that bzunettes will, in
spite OF their greater abundance,
REGAIN THE SUPREMACY
for time, again to be dispossessed by whim
Of fashion for the fashion OF complexion Ike
The passion for blondes. among the dark-baired
race, Gibbs aud flows it is fover that inter-
mits, fantasy that burns and coo1s again.
Among the Greeks and Romans light COM
ple1ions we're very rare, and for that reason
highly priced; blondes were considered to bo
the real beauties, tho true types of loneliness.
These opinions powerfully swared the soal OF |
art. and wove golden threads into all the warp |
and woof OF ancient sons and story. To meet |
the capricious taste Of the time, the female |
pagana made up their deficiency in part by the I
art, recently revived, Of changing
BLACK HA1R TO YELLOW or RED.
This custom Is repeatedly referred to By the
poets and satirista. In Ovid's fourteenth elegy
he roproaches his mistress With her folly in
pouring cauHtic poisons on her head to blanch
the co1cr. The practice OF shaving the bead and
wearing wigs made OF the yellow hair of German
Slaves WAS very common The modern witticism
which regularly makes its appearance at stated
intervals among the venerable "Joes," in the
yn1iety column OF the country newspaper, upon
tho girl that wore her own hair. because she
paid for it, is from Martial's epiSram on Calais
golden hair.
Sacred history contains little notice Of female
ians, and other brown races, although we know
rom Isaiah that there was strong inclination
IMPROVE UPON E4TCRE
tlnong the jewish DANES, The Egyptians we're
xcceaingly clean, and among .ba many advan-
ages Of the captivity Of the Jews among them
Eas the acquiring OF scrnpu1ous}y cleaplv habits,
hough, like all Eastern people, they made great
lso Of perfumes and unEuents- They we're fond
lso of "chaDgeablo suits OF apparel, and the
lie .'roupd tires like the noon,' they got from
be Babylonian worship OF Astarre, who had she
Resent moon upon her head, but it is not re-
orded that they dyed their black hair yellow.
osephus, whose dainty volumes made the New
,ngland light reading in the time Of the elder
'eecher, records that King Solomon, when thoy
I'D high jlnks at Jerusaiem, Was preceded BY
orty pages, wearing their hair
POWDERED WITH GoLD-DUsr
!ittering in tue sun. Tho late Empress Of
'rauce, no doubt imagined she was the first to
went this delicate method Of adornment; but,
8 Solomon himself informs Us that there is
othing now under the sun, he probably took it
rom the example Of some preceding monarch,
nd played it OF on the Queen OF Sheba as ! new
hing in hair. Moses does not condescend to
i've us description OF Ere's style of beauty
would have added trnnsccndent interest to
is narrative il he had done 30, and been an all
antage in giving it = circumstantial ali. No
oubt
EVE WAS ML-LooKISG,
} nothing was created in valn and beauty in
cr case, she being the only woman her husband
rer saw, would have beon wastefn1 supertui-
:. We only know that the woman WAS created |
1ziug Adams first sleep, which, in consequence,
scame his last repose. and that she immednte-
began to instruct him as to what he had bet
II do. Milton, conscious Of the deficiency in
10 sacred narrative, undertakes to give Us tho !
Icts. He says:
She, as vcil down to her slender walat I
Her unadorned golden tresees wore
Disheyelu but in wanton ring1ets waved
As the vine curls her tendrils. |
ishop Newton thinks Milton was Influenced in
$ description BY his subscrvience to the tastes
the ancients, but it Was no doubt owing to the
;esence Of his third wife, who Was yellow
1ired, and who possibly described herself to
10 blind poet in language he has msde poetic. !
II the sacred poets were quiet as to their pref
euces, the profane ones we're not; they we1a
WILD ABOUT HLoSDEs.
esiod and Homer, who h3o the focts relating
the pagan divinities are brilliant with bright
liz. Not finding them on earth, they spurned
Q bounds Of existence and imagined new t
or1ds radiant with fair women. The rosy c
,0nraA Aurnrn faanipr from tho nrnu nf +