Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-12
VERY WICKED BLONDES.
Fair Hair and Blue Eyes as Danger
Signals-All the Cold, Cruel Women
of History and Romance of Light
Complexion.

1 SAsHaAs-<Au the OOlds Cruel Women
of History and Romance of Light
/ Complexion.
"Ihere goes another manufactured
! blOndew said philosopher to a Chicago
| NelrS reporter, the other day. .Bepad 7
don't understand the fancy that makes
women whom nature has fashioned in fair
and decent form change themselves into
the counterfeit of other beings. / know
the blonde style is in vogue, and some of
| them look pretty, too, with their golden
locks and innocent, iRgenue air, but it's all
decelt-deceit both in the hair and COM
pleXlOn itself, and the air and grace, how
ever natural. 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. But cool woman, who can act
from f0rethOught. and says what she in
tends to do, and afterward does 1t, is to be
avoided. Yes, that class are always
blondes"
do you mean to say that complexion
affects characterT'
Yes, it's more than skin deem. If ner-
meates the entire system, and the mind
and soul are as false as the physical ap-
pearance. But why do l object to bleached
hair and calsOmined faces? Because the
women that do 1t put on an air of wicked
ness they don't possess. 0, | know that
poets sing the praises of fair-haired hero
mes, and angels are always dressed that
way. They all write that way, but his
tory is better guide than poetry"
"GiYe me an instance"
MARY Stuart, she came to Scotland,
only 10 years old, with but two purposes
i'll her heart. She was young. beautiful.
with blue eyes and hair like shmmering
SunbeamS, and voice so low, melodiOus
and full of charm that it rivaled the sirens
who lured Ulysses to an attempted fate.
DO you suppose a brunette would have
lived her life? Could the impulses that
usually lead on young and guileless girl
have led to the schemes and plots which
finally resulted in Mary Stuarts death?
Her attempt was to dethrOne Elizabeth
and overthrow the Reformation. But
Mary acted from impulses, you say.
What were they? When she yielded to
Boutwell,, it was with an idea to political
advantage. She could combine the baser
with the loftier passions and merge them
both into one more ignoble than all.
Elizabeth was blonde, too. Take
Lady Macbeth. True,~~She was only
vision of Shakespeare, but Shakespeare
was reader Of types of humanity such
as we have never known. He says that
Caliban's mother, SycoraX, was a blue
eyed hag,' and look at Macbeth's story.
She drives Malcolm to call her 'fiend-like.'
and the only holy passion that she has,
her love for her husband, and her desire
to better his fortunes, she follows out
with 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.
"Thackeray pictures Rebecca Sharp a
blonde, and surely you would never look
for her characteristic among olive cheeks,
black ringlets, and eyes where the iris
melts in the shadow of darkly-shadoWing
frlnges. Charlotte COrday's eyes We're
blue when she reflected, 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 JegadO, who MUIR
dered twenty-five persons in her life
time. was a blonde of the pnrest type,
and there was a persstency about her
cruelty, calculating, far-seeing subtlety
that has no equal outside of MiltOn's con-
ception of the devil. Nnon de PEnclos
and Nine. de Cnevreuse, who outwitted
two cardinals, were blondes also, while
Catherine de Medicis 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 be-
cause Eve tempted him. He showed that
weakness afterward when he tried to Law
the blame on her. Eve was weak, of
course. She was a brunette and woman.
But the old Oriental legend of Lilith
shows the difference of the types. Lilith.
the first wife of Adam, according to
this legend, was cold, passionless,
splendid woman, with wOndrOus
golden hair. She was created
Adams equal in every respect;
therefore, properly enough re-
fused 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 Lilth-ieal0us.
enraged, pining for her lost home in Para
dise-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, snaring the sons of
Adam and destroying them. You may
always know her dead victims, for when
ever man has been destroyed by the
hands of Lilith you will always find
single golden hair wrapped around his
lIfeless heart. ] must go now; my wife
is waiting for me over there"
"What! That blOnde?"
"Why, of course. Some of our ideas
are only formed late in life. and then come
mostly from experience"