The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-23
The Age OF Blondes.

aEsSuo louonyo IuapsouiAss % IOliOWs
in the New York Tribune, about
blondes:
1t must be confessed, the Americans
send the lovliest blondes TO us in Paris.
The Nineteenth century will be decid-
eddy the age of blondes, as the Sixteenth
Century was,-ss tho Seventeenth Gen.
fury was the age of periwigs-as the
Eighteenth was the age of powder. 1t
is settled: all women are blondes, those Of
tho South equally with those of the
North. Nestor RoQueplsn has said
"God gave blonde HAIR to the Northern
women, to console the men for the ab.
sence of the sum-" At present the South
ern women blonde themselves by virtue
of the Eau des Fees, or by simply wash.
ing their hair with ammonia. One sub
stance colors, the other uncolors. 1t is
the miracle of chemistry.
When she was rs years old that tool
ish young creature whom we have named
"Ophelia" on the French stage, irst took
the fancy to make herself blonde-for a
change As she said, she had no doubt
of being able to initiate the fashion.
Now the New World and the Old are
crazy over it; all the women are eager to
be blends, especially those who have been
palhd But why violate natureP Is
white hair not sacred crown to the
head? Has not brunette beauty its dis
tinctve charm and character, no less
than blonde2 l met, just now, Russ
ian princess who is renowned for her
black hair and blue eyes, a combination
which gave her an excessive charm.
Well! Even she is determined to have
blonde hair. And she has succeeded in
running her face.
In the Song of Songs the bridegroom
says to the Sulamite woman almost the
same thing as Dorat said to his mistress:
Thou hast ravished my heart with one
OF thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck,
In the Song of Songs the eyes OF the
SulamIte are compared to doves bathed
in milk on the edge ola fountain. De
lightful image, which pictures the sweet
ness of the eyes swimming in their linn
pid margins! To what have eyes not
been compared? GaIius says tnst the
eyes of his mistress are stars; LactantIus,
that the eyes born and shine within the
lashes like diamonds in rings of gold.
And how many times has it not been
said, us 10 Alclbiades: Thine eyes
dart forth like sun-rays?" But all these
luminous metaphors are eclipsed by that
beautiful phrase in which the Arab poet
declared that the eyes are light itself;
God said to her eyes. 'Bev-and they
were" All the primitive poets spoke OF
the eyes as a sufficient description OF the
woman: they were "graciousIy-lidded
or "love-besring."
The anclents perhaps admired black
eyes more than blue ones, although An
Acreon was fascinated with the blue eyes
of his mistress. Almost all poets ind
black ewes sweeter and more luminous;
thew love &c see them Contrasted with
blonde hair; they have not yet invented
ewes the color OF the air, or sea, eyes
treacherous as the waves. II eyes have
done such execution, from the creation
of the world down to the present time,
hair has intoxicated many u up win us
pertume. d d not king, contemporary
with Moses, become enamored OF tress
of hair which the waves OF the Nile car
ried to his feet? Was it not from the
head of the Princess Mantrlllis of the
XIXLh Dynasty, she who Was named
The Paim?" The darkness OF thy
hair is the darkness of the night" She
also, doubtless, was clothed by her hair
when she came to disrobe. Such abund-
ant tresses must have weighed 200 cycles
like those of Absalom.
Clothed with her bair"-an express
ion which dates from the lost Paradise.
81. Paul said to the Corinthians that HAIR
WAS given to women as veil TO cover her.
When Venus rises from the waves, con-
viewed by the Graces and Cupids, is she
not made still lovIier by the flower hair
which radistes around her? For Venus
WAS blonde. So was Helen of Troy,
and Daphne still more so. All antiquity
sdores blonde hair; for the poets, to be
blonde was to be beautiful. Mars was
blonde like Achilles, Mention is made
of a ferocious hero, tsker OF cit'e', VINO
Owed his hair blonde in order to have
the name OF a lion. Ness .lina was
brunette. but she always wore blonde
wig. Ovid was right in being Indignant
that the Roman laIies persisted IN buy
ing their hair from the Germans and ihe
Gnuls. In Brittany there is song
wbfch SAYS that for 1000 years the
country girls there have sold their hair.