The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-19
THE BALEFuL BLONDE.
CurbstOne Philosopher Who Believes that
Fair Women Are False.

CurbstOne Philosopher Who Believes that
Fair Women Are False.
Chicago News.
Blonde women are the most dangerous
| KIND. There is no steady harm in women
who are passionate. They may kill you, or
| run OFF with another man. but their acts are
| impulses and the creatures thereof; there is
no settled calculation in them. Buta cool
woman, who can act from forethought, and
says what she intends to do. and afterward
| does It, is to be avoided. Yes, that class are
| always blondes"
DO you mean to say that complexion af-
| fectS character?'
Yes it's more than skin deep. 1t perme-
ates the entire system, and the mind and
| soul are as false as the physical appearance
But why do l object to bleached hair and
| calcimined faces? Because the women that
do it put on an air of wickedness they don't
| possess. o. l know that poets sing the
praises of fair-haired heroines, and angels
are always dressed that way. Tennyson
writes of Godiva:
| She shook her head,
And showered the rippled ringlets to her knee;
| Unclad herself in haste; adOwn the stair
| Stole on, and, like a creeping sunbeam, slid
From pillar unto pillar"
They all write that way, but history is a
better guide than poetry"
| Give me All instance"
''Mary Stuart, she came to Scotland, only
|
| her heart. She was young, beautiful,
with blue eyes and hair like shimmering sun
beams, and voice so low, melodious and full
of charm that it rivaled the sirens that lured
! Ulysses to an attempted fate Do you sup
| pose brunette would have lived her life?
| Could the impulses that usually urge on a
| young and guiltless girl have led to the
! schemes and. plots which finally resulted in
Mary Stuart's death2 Her attempt was to
detbrone Elizabeth and overthrow the
reformation. Bot Mary acted from impulses,
you say What were they? Not those of
love, but those of lust; and when she yielded
! herself up to Bothwelfs embraces, it was
with an idea to political advantage She
could combine the baser and the loftier pas
sions and merge them both into one more ig-
noble than ALP
What about Eizabeth?''
Elizabeth? Well, she was a blonde, too.
| Take Lady Macbeth True, she was only a
vision of Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was
reader of types of humanity such as we have
! never known. He says that Cali bans mother,
| Sycorax, was a 'blue-eyed hag.' and look at
Macbeth's story. She drives Malcolm to call
her fend-like,' and the only holy passion
| that she has--her love for her husband, and
her desire to better his fortnnes-she follows
out with a COOL calculating persistence
which, being totally divorced from all sense
| of honor and uprightness leads her only to
| final woe, and drives him to the commission
| OF his awful deeds"
Give me morel''
'"Thackeray pictures Rebecca Sharp blonde
and surely you would never look for her
characteristics among olive cheeks, black
/ ringlets and eyes where the iris melts in the
! shadow of dark y-shadowing fringes. Char
lotte Cordays eyes were blue when she re-
Elected, almost black when called into play
and her hair seemed gold-colored at
| the points of the tresses, like the
ear Of corn-deeper and more lustrous than
the wheat stalk in the sunlight Helen Jega-
| do, who murdered twenty-five persons in her
| lifetime, was a blonde OF the purest type
and there was persstency about her cruel
| ty, calculating, far-seeing subtlety. that has
| no eoual outside of Millions conception of
| the devil Ninon de PEnclos and Nine. de
| Chevreuse who outwitted two cardinals.
were blondes also, while Catherine de Medi-
els was aZure-eyed, with sparkling hair and
face like pearl and silver They were smooth
| tongued and beautiful to look upon, these
| women, but their plots undermined courts
| and camps, and pulled down to destruction
| many brave hearts,"
But the lack of the qualities that made
/ these women infamous would also make
them weak%'
"Of course; but why should women be
strong? Let the man be strong. Adam fell
| because of his Weakness and not because
Eve tempted him. He showed that weak
| ness afterward when he tried to lay the
blame on her. Eve was weak of course
She was a brunette and a woman.
But the old legend of Lilith shows
the difference in the types. Lilith, the
| first wife of Adam, was a cold, passionless,
| splendid woman, with wondrous golden
| hair. She was created Adams equal in every
respect therefore, properly enough. refused
| to obey him. For this she was driven from
the Garden OF Eden, and Eve was made to
order out of one of Adams ribs. Then the
| golden-haired Lilith-jealous, enraged, pin
Ing for her lost home in paradise-took the
form of serpent, crept into the garden. and
tempted Adam and Eve TO their destruction.
And from that day to this Lilith, the cold,
passionless beauty with golden hair, has
roamed up and down the earth, Sharing the
sons of Adam and destroying them. You
may always know her dead victims. for
whenever man has been destroyed by the
hands of Lilith you will always find a single
golden hair wrapped tight around his lifeless
| heart"
Where did you get that story?"
| ''Mr. Conway gives it in his history of the
devil. Eve would never have been guilty of
| the revenge. She might have sinned as
deeply as Lilth, but would have suffered
/ and not struck back"
Military Tomfoolery.
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