Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-02-08
DANGEROUS BLONDES,
a Curbstone Philosopher Contradicts
the Poets Praises.
Eve Was Brunette. but a Woman.
Whi.e Legendary, Golden
Haired LiiithWas Cod
and Cruel,

Haired LiiithWas Cod
and Cruel.
There goes another manufactured blondel
Eegad | don't understand the fancy that
makes woman, whom nature has fashioned
IN far 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, ingenue ar, but it's all deceit
deceit both in the hair AMI complexion itself
and the air and grace, however 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 set
tied calculation in them. But a cool woman,
who can act from forethought, I'D says
what she intends to do. and afterward does
it, Is to be avoided Yes. that class are al
ways blondes"
do you mean to say that complexion af-
fectS characteri'
YES, it's more than skin deep 1t per
meates the entire system, and the mind and
soul are as false as the physical appearance
But why do object to bleached hair and
calcimined facess Because the women that
do it put on an air of wickedness they don't
possess. o, know that poets sing the praises
of fair-baired heroines, and angels are al
ways dressed that way. They all write that
way. but history is a better guide than
poetry"
Tive Inc an instance"
MARY Stuart. she came to Scotland, only
x.na al .xrrtt but I.v
heart She was young, beautiful, with blue
eyes and hair like shimmering sunbearps, and
voice SO low, melodious and full of charm
that it r;Salel the sirens who lured Uly 'ses to
an attempted fate. Do you suppose a brl-
nette would have lived her lifea Could the
impulses that usually urge on q young and
guiieless gil have led to the schemes and
plots which finally resulted in Mary Stuart's
death! Her attempt was to dethrone Eliza
beth 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 and the loftier pas-
sions and merge them both into one more ig-
mol le than all.
Elizabeth was a blonde, too Take Lady
Macbeth. True, she was only vision Of
Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was q reader
Of types of humanity such as we have never
known. He says that Caliban's mother Sy-
corax, was a blue eyed hag,' and look at
Macbeth's story. She drives Malcolm to call
her 'fiendlike,' and the only holy passion that
she has, her love for her husband, and her de-
sire 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 aw-
full deeds.
"Thackeray pictures Rebecca Sharp q
blonde, and surely you W, uld never look for
her characteristics among olive cheeks, black
ringlets, and eyes where the iris uielts in the
shadow of darkly-shadowing fringes. Char
lo.te Corday's 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 Jegado, who
murdered twenty-five persons in her lifetime,
was n blonde of the purest type, and there
was persistency about her cruelty, calcu-
hitting, far-seeing subtlety, that has no equal
outside of Millions conception Of the devil
Ninon de rEnclos and Nine de Chevreuse
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 smoothtongued and
beautiful to look upon, these women, but
their plots undermined courts and camps
und 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 weakness af-
terward when he tried to lay the blame on
her. Eve was weak, of course. She was q
brunette and a woman. But the old legend
Of Liiith shows the difference in the types
tilith, the first wife Of Adam, was 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
70 order out of one of Adams ribs. Then the
yOlden-hair Lilith-jealous, enraged, pining
for her lost home IN Paradise-took the form
Of serpent, crept INTO the garden, and
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 dec: victims, for
whenever man has been destroyed by the
hapds Of Lilith you will always find 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. She might have sinned as deeply as
Lilith, bet would havesuffered and not struck
back"
"What does all this TRADE meant"
Nothing, only l fear blonde women, and
hate to see those on whose features nature
has put the stamp Of faithfulness degrade
themselves by a counterfeiting of the other
brand Of deceit. Another drink, did you
sayl Certainly. l must 60 now, my wife is
waiting for me over there"
"What! That blondef'
"Why, Of course. Some Of our ideas are
only formed late in life, and then come
mostly from experience"