The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-02-07
DANGEROUS BLONDES.
A Curbstone Philosopher Contradicts
the Poets Praises.
Eve Was n Brunette. but n Woman.
While Legendary. Golden
Haired LiIithWas Cold
and Cruel,

Degad | don't understand the fancy that
makes woman, 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 loc.s
and innocent ingenue air, but it's all deceit
deceit both in the hair and complexion itself
and the air and grace, however natural.
Blonde women are the most dangerous kind.
There is no steady harm in women whe 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 cool woman,
who can act from forethought, ID 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"
eyes, 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
calcmined faces! Because the women that
do it put on an air of wickedness they don't
possess. o, l knew 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 a better guide than
poetry"
''Gve me an instance"
MARY Stuart, she came to Scotland, only
10 years old, with but two purposes in her
heart. She was young, beautiful, with blue
eyes and hair like shimmering sunbeaISs, and
a voice so low, melodious and full of charm
that it rivaled the sirens Who lured Uly sses to
an attempted fate. Do you Suppose bru-
nette would have lived her lifes Could the
impulses that usually urge on a young and
guiieless girl have led to the schemes and
plots which fiually 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 theyf 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-
noble than all.
Elizabeth was blonde, too. Take Lady
Macbeth. True, she was only vision of
Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was a reader
of types of humanity such as we have never
known. He says that Caliban's II other, Sy
corax, was blue eyed hag, and look at
Macbeth's story. She drives Malcolm to call
her 'tiend-like,' and the only holy passion that
she has, her love for her husband, and her de-
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 a
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 Notwithstanding fringes. Char
lo.te Corday's eyes were blue when she re-
hected, 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 a blonde of the purest type, and there
was persistency about her cruelty, a calcu-
lating, far-seeing subtlety that has no equal
outside of Millions conception of the devil.
Ninon' de rEnclos and Mime. 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 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 weakness af-
terward when he tried to lay the blame on
her. Eve was weak of course She was
brunette and a woman But the old legend
of Lilith shows the difference in the types.
IAlith 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
II order out of one of Adams ribs Then the
4olden-haired Lilith-jealous, enraged, pning
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 Lilth, 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 il in his history of the
devil. She might have sinned as deeply as
Lilith bat would have suffered and not struck
back"
what does all this TRADE meanl'
Nothing, only fear blonde women, and
hate to see those on whose features nature
has put the stamp of faithfulness degrade
themselves by counterfeiting of the other
brand of deceit. Another drink, did you
sayi Certainly. | must 60 now, my wife is
waiting for me over there"