The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-04-02

poet in language lie Las made poetic.
If the sacred poets wer. uics as to their
preferences, The prcfune ones we're not;
they were
WILD ABOUT BLONDES.
Ilesiod and Homer, who had the fact.
relating to the pagan divinitiss, are bril-
li1nt with bright hair. Not finding then,
on earth, they spurned the;bound, of exist
ence and imagined new worlds radiant
with Fair women. The rosy-fingered Auro-
ra, leaping from the arms of Tithouus TO
scatter the blossoms Of the dawn, showed
eyes of azure and locks of waving sun
beams. The sea-bo-n Goddess of Love
and the "fre-eyed Maid of War" had gold
en- hair, and the Virgin Iluutress, she who
kissed the sleeping Endymion on Mount
Latmos, covered his fac. with cleaning
tresses.
Keats says Of this goddess:
Speak, stubborn Earth, and tell me vhsro.
where
Has, thou a symbol Of her golden hair7
No cat, sheayes dropping III tia western
sun.
The nymphs born of Doris and Marcus, the
attendants Of old shell-winling Triton, and
all the merry rout that around eorid young
Bacchus, wreathed with vine-leaves, held
eternal rerel.
WERE AL BRIGTr-UAIREp
So also were Apollo md love-soueht
Adonis. But the eternal fitness Of things
demtnted contrasts, so the ox-eved Juno
was q brunette. She would have been n
good woman, like many others, if she had
been married to an exemplary man; but
there is no denying that Jupiter carrie d
on awful" and set her bad example.
She n,turaiiy became censorious and iliber-
al. The faithful sisters who spin and cut
the thread Of Mortal existence are dark and
sornbrc, being the daughters Of Night
Thoso exceedingly unpleasant, females. the
Furies, who. having 20 occupation, such .
iecturi0g and going to conventions" hec-
.ored people Unfortunately, were decided
! brnnettes, Among mortals, the fairest
che 0; all tie breathing world, gift of the
grateful goodness to Paris, WIS
/ Helen. Eioss bsIu;y summoned Greece
! Aul drew 4 thou.ond ships to Ten.dcs.
At Athens, lar down into the time Of
aIthea;ie his;orT,
FAIR HAIp had TIE CALL:
brunettes made virtue of necessity; like
other interrupted people, they died poor
hut honest, thouch Lais was one that did
not. I he list Of Athon;sn blondes is too
long H. recount; II stretches TO the crack
OF 8recian doom. Then they invade the
poetry Of Rome and haunt her starry, fair
h"'red P"ran ghosts. In Virgirs song
Dido Is anblrn, and Venus wears her i'm
mortal cr'Crs. Horace makes 70 secret Of
his preference. snd Ovid like. his maids
rather urderdnne, the ;edier the iuicier.
After the fall or the Roman EuJ ire the
( Cyrthias and Lesbias, the Chloes and Ly
dlas, that ensra-ed the hearts of Latin
poets, went out with ar: and literature, bu.
they came troopiny back again in the revi.
val Of taste and letters, first .tImidly peepinc
from the page of Illuminated missal., t!er
in the songs Of jongieur and trouhadour
The poets az they came On caught up the
old strain; retrareh, Tasso, and Ariosto
and AL the smaller singers echoed it. The
painters had the same fancy, and nearly a.
the Na'lonn,s and Magda!ens of Italia.
and Spanish art are
BRILLIANT BLONDES.
The taste of France WAS for "tre.se,
blonde letters and "tlondss ehevevx,
and the famous women who led statesmen
and wasted tbs teseanes of kingdoms OF
set armies ii motion, until the death o.
LON. Qnatorze, curled cleaning tresSes
Among these, and best known Of all, wa,
the beautiful, infamous LIcretia Borsia tn.
rarest beauty, an Italian blonde i'h;s is
no poets assertion, no painters within, bu
a matter of proof. In The Anbrasi.n Ii
brsry at Milan there Is II lock of the Bor
gas hair. Byron had single hair fron
1t; Leigh Hunt describes it; and Lando
writes nf 1T. Calm hair, meaudsssag will
pellucid goli.'
The dam Of English literature renew
allegiance to fair womca. chaucer's her
oin.s have
golden HERES"
and Sponsor will haze no other. lie call,
it beauty. ;arely bait" when Bri,omnr
reveal 5 herself
, A bout her backe and all her bodie round:
Like AS the shining skye in sommer's nigh
Is breasted with all lines OF ierie light
The EIizabstLae poets made il not onl
the golden age OF literature, but of hair al
SO. They xere Of one mind abont il
Beaumont ard Fletcher. MARROW, Middl.
ton, and especially Robert Greene, TIE or
ginal type of the Bohemiaa, were all blond
worshipers. Greene says Of Silvest.e
, Ladie:
/. Her hair Of golden hue doth dim the beam
, fha, proud Apollo give tn from lis coach.
4 And in the Penitent Palmer ode:
= thought my mistress hair were gold,
And Ia heir locks ny hear; fold:
Her amber tresses were the sight
!hH wrapped re il -air delight