The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-09-24
The @ailg g ,llstin.
FRIDAY, SEPT. "a. 1886.
VERY WICKED BLONDES.

plexion affects character?''
Eyes. Its more than skin deep.
1t permeates the entire system, and
the mind and soul are as false as
the physical appearance. But why
do l object to bleached hair and
calsomined faces? Because the wo-
men that do it, put on the air of
wickedness they don't possess. o, l
know that poets sing the praises of
fairhaircd heroines, and angels are
always dressed that way. They all
write that way, but history is a bet
ter guide than poetry"
"Give me an instance"
"Mary Stuart; she came to Scot
land. only nineteen years old, with
but two purposes in her heart. She
was young, beautiful, with blue eyes
and hair like shimmering sunbeams,
and voice so low, melodious, and
full of charm that it rivaled the
sirens who lured Ulysses to an at
tempted fate. Do you suppose u
brunette would have lived her life /?
Could the impulses that usually lead
on a young and guileless girl have
led to the schemes and plots which
finally resulted in Mary Stuart's
death? Her attempt was to de-
throne Elizabeth and overthrow the
Reformation. But Mary acted from
impulses, you say. What were
they? When she yielded to Both
we'll, 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 a vision of Shakespeare,
but Shakespeare was a 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 bet
ter 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 Il blonde, and surely you
would never look for her character
istic among olive cheeks, black,
ringlets, and eyes where the iris
melts in the shadow of darkly-
shadowing fringes. Charlotte Cor
days eyes were blue when she re-
fiected, 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 life time, was blonde OF
purest type, and there was a per.
sistency about her cruelty, calcu'
lating, far-seeing subtlety that has
no equal outside of Milton's concep
ton of the devil. Nihon de PEnclo'
aud Nine. de Chevreuse, who out
witted two Cardinals, were blondes
also. while Catherine de Medici
was azure eyed, with sparkling hal
and face like pearl and silver. The,
were smooth-tongued and beautiful
to look upon, these women, bu
their plots undermined courts ant
camps and pulled down to destruc
ton many brave hearts"
but the lack of the qualities tina
made these women infamous would
also make them weak"
'Of course, but why should wo
men be strong? Let the man b.
strong. Adam fell because of hi
weakness, and not because Ev'
tempted him. He showed that weak
ness afterwards when he tried to la,
the blame on her. Eve was weak
of course. She was a brunette ant
woman. But the old Oriental lie
gend of Lilith shows the difference
in the types. Lilith, the first wifi
of Adam. according to this legend
was a cold, passionless, splendid
woman, with wondrous golden hair
She was created Adams equal il
every respect; therefore, properl
enough refused to obey him. Flo
this she was driven from the Gar
den of Eden, and Eve was made t
order out of one of Adams ribs
Then the golden haired Lilith-
jealous, enraged, pining for her los
home in Paradise-took the form {
serpent, crept into the garden an
tempted Adam and Eve to their dc
structon. And from that day t
this Lilith, the cold, passionles
beauty with golden hair, has roame
up and down the earth, sharing til
sons of Adam and destroying then
You may always know her dea
victims, for when ever man hi
been destroyed by the hands of L
18th you will always find sing
golden hair wrapped around h
lifeless heart. | must 60 now; m
wife is waiting for me over there.
"What! That blonde?"
a