The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-02-25

where she will be taken care Of and
you, 100, 10 teach you both to be more
silent. Go, sif; that is all | have to
say You. Good day" ipJ
- 'aa The Red Headed Girl. o,s0
Hi"H Hmhs ----I iiiN IfGi gi
~ HN'' " Philadelphia Times. saYl9s
It is a custom well established
among light-minded and inconsiderate
writers to lay upon the Red Headed
Girl the burden Of all that is odious
and ugly in woman. With little re-
Igard for the Difference due the sex at
large, with still less regard for what is
due to everlasting truth and the eter-
nal fitness of thingss the "malicious
ihtterers OF thoughts imbase''-as Lord
Chancellor Bacon probably would
have styled them--saddle upon the
inoffeusivc maiden Of auburn locks
every sort and kind Of moral and phys
ical deformities. She is cross!eyed
Il, afflicted with strabismus" say the
would-be humorous among her, de-
famers; pugnoscdf OF, ITO again quote
the humorists, with nose 'tip-tilted
in the air';' has a game leg. andonow
and then is represented, in addition to
all the Foregoing aeformities, as having
a hump on her back. The fiery TEN
per Of the Red Headed Girl is repown.
ed the world over, and she is only too
frequently represented as lacking in
duereverence for the TRUTH as 9 traitor
in love misunderstanding her al
legged peppery ways--a coward in war.
In short, the Red Headed Girl o as she
has grown into moderate fiction, is a
person sedttfoasly to be summed. For
a convincing proof ofthe' utter, the ina
licious falseAcss of these Wholesale
charges ofmoral and ofbodily infrm.
| ity, We have but to scan the pages Of
history in which, age after age, we
find the Red.iesded Girl constantly
reappearmg as the perspnifcation Of
womanlylloveliness; or still less troub
L. we have onlyI to turn to the Red.
Healed Girl she lives and moves
ana Lrs ber ba;nrr il re.I9 l;se,9las Gsbe
walks amnnl, ns sereye vi eala,e in
the charm Of her radiant splendor-a
thing Of beauty and ioy forever; 1t
JS ahsnr5 y for tbosa r,as ~ ,a;nJaS
l;gneps of t,anssndsnt loyelines.. 10
deny to the Red Headed G;rl If tho
nr.sent that reveronce vb;cb i hor
nneenl, dno M essential chanoo
has core oysrl,bc ,vnr h ;s nroc;seIv
tho same as whom ;ts ap.nd Egynti,r
evemnj,,i tbS . witcS;ns b.s,;ty Of
wboya MI mmS oao oo,il9 ~
nnr could custom a, u Mod ! ~ f,li
m;jlsnn;n ;ns ago mi !. dasnrvas ne
r;solv ,ha so,ae b;rb honor and Low .
;nr 'adm;r,t;on' na,v 90 'than ,'7 II l.
"S NY, @ io,0lr ,a.. ,h;S H on;.;, 80 as oav;l;n1, -
his set in Un,;l Wa oct ctoI,tbe, verv
Nh, M Lii, ~ M nrsoort e,dn,rat;on -,
Sud tbc Rcd HoadsJ Guf exaited as Is i
her due. Through the sweep Of the
centuries from Cleopatra,s time until
ours, almost tile whole length Of that
wondrous stairway of the ages leading
ou and up to the present from the
depths of the past, find we ever that
tho Red Headed Girl has been the
Study of paiilters, the theme of poets
and the toast Of kings. Had not Rubens
been over head and ears in love with
che whose hair was Shredded gold,
through which the sunlight shone, 4"
where, We should like to know, would
have been, that glorious collection of
pictures that he has left behind him to
gladdeuf for 5gcs to come all true lovers
OF the beautiful in nature and in art?
TWAS Uoldsinith who SAID, unless we
misqiote hihi "sweet auburn! loyeliest
maiden midst the plah"- "--evidently
referring to some particular red headed
girl whom be thus ,pointedly exalted
above her less beautiful toitipahiohs
having heads of yellow, black or
brown. 1twas Louis NV. who cast
his heart, his sceptre and his crown at
the feet OF Madame the Duchess de la
Valliere. '' " ' y 's H'f -
And yet, in defiance Of this imposing
array Of fprecedents, not to mention the
still more imposi'g array remaining un
cited, in accordance with the beauty
Of the Red. Headed Girl has. been
established in the past beyond pelad-
venture, the stitf-necked generation
now garrisoning the world manifests
cept her at anything like par. Among