Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-14
4 Very Wicked Blondes.

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u DO you mean to say that comp lexion
affects character?" .,. : !. {. . .%.
Yes, Its more than skin deep. It
permeates the entire system, and the
mind and soul are as false as the physi-
cal appearance. but why do / object to
bleached hair and ealsomined faces7
Because the women that do it put on an
air Of wickedness they don't possess.
0, know that poets sing the praises OF
fair-haired heroines, and angels are al
ways dressed that way. They all write
that way, but history is q better guide
than poetry" ..
"Giye me an instance
tsMary Stuart; she came to Scotland,
only nineteen years old. but with two
purposes in her heart. She was young,
beautiful, with blue eyes and hair like
shimmering sunbeams, and a voice SO
low. uelodious. and full of charm that
it rivelled the sirens who lured Ulysses
to an attempted fate. Do you suppose
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 Stuart's death? Her
ATTEMPT was to dethrone Elizabeth and
overthrow the Reformation. But Mary
acted from impulses, you say. W nat
were they? When she yielded t. Both
well, it was with an idea to political ad-
vantage. She could combine the baser
with the loftler passions. and merge
them both into one more ignoble than
all.
"Elizabeth was a blonde too. Take
Lady Macbeth. True she was only a
vision of Shakespeare, but Shakespeare
was a reader of types Of humanity such
as we have never known. He says that
Caliban's mother, Sycorax, was "blue-
eyed hag,' and look at Macbeth's story.
She drives Maicomb to call her 'fend-
like and the only holy passi on that she
has, her love for her husband, and her
desire to better his fortunes, she follows
out with q cool calculating persistence,
which, being totally divorced from all
sense of honor and uprig htness, 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 darby"
shadowing fringes. Charlotte Corday''s
eyes were "blue when she reflected, al
most 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 Je-
gado, who murdered twenty-five per-
sons in her lifetime, was blonde Of the
purest type, and there was a persistency
about her cruelty, calculating, far-see-
ing subtlety that has no equal outside OF
Miiton's 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 pear 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. D
"But the lack of the qualities that
made these women Infamous would alse
make them weak?"
s'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 his
weakness afterward when he tried to
lay the blame on her, Eve was weak ,oi
course. she was brunette and woln-
an. But the old Oriental legend Of
Lilith shows the difference in the types.
Lilith, the first wife of Adam, according
to this legend, was a cold, passionless,
splendid women. 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 adams ribs. Then the golden. haired
Lilith--iealous. enraged, pining fo1
her lost home in Paradise-5ook the
form Of a serpent, crept into the garden
and tempted Adam and Eve to their de-
struction. And from chat day to this,
Lilith, the cold, passionless beauty with
golden hair, has rcamed up and down
the earth, sharing the sons Of Adam and
destroying them. You may always know
her dead victims, for whenever a man
has been destroyed by the hands Of Lii
it'll you will always find q single golden
hair wrapped around his life less heart,
NEST go now my wife is waiting for me
over there"
''What! That blonle?"
"Why, Of course. Some of our idea;
are only formed late in life. and
then come mostly from experienced
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