Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-01-14
MYSTERY OF RED HAIR.
THE CONCLUSIVE DEMONSTRATION
 MADE BY AN ARTIST.

MADE BY AN ARTIST. Nh sucn a Thing as Real Red Hair-The Sunset Headed Maiden Is Never stupid Glowing Locks on the stage--In Lit- erature
 0Red hair There's no such thingF exclaimed young and well known artist who has passed many days m sunny Italy the other afternoon as he prom enaded up Fifth avenue with an equany well known swell. They had just come from lunching at DelmOn'co's at the svell's expense, and the latter had Just remarked, after the manner of his knd: By love, just look at that wed headed girl crowssing Ovah heah; she gives me sunstrOke, dOntcher know"
 'sWhy don't people call colors by thelr proper namesE" went on the exasperated artist as they passed the Brunswick
 ssBut, my deah fellah, dontche- know what Navy Anderson says, "A wose by any other name would smell as sweet, and if wed hair isn't wed, why, It looks wed all the same" and as this lOglc seemed irrefutable there was silence until the two men disappeared within the DOT tals of the KnickerbOcker club.
 The reporter, who had overheard this conversation, determined to unsOlve the mystery of red hair, and at dusk sought the artist in his studio to find out what color rcd hair was. The artist was look ing picturesque and kind, and was pleased to mix on his palette three different shades of red, three of yellow and three of brown.
 TWO OR THREE COLORS MIXED
 .sNow." said he, with the air of the col Iege professor who pauses tO catch the class with some startling question, .'point me out the color that is like red hair. !" The reporter couldn't do it. He lowered about the orange color as the small boy around the circus tent, but could not touch it. He almost singled out one of the sickly looking browns, but the reds he skipped entirely.
 ''Give it up.n
 Thought you would" said the artist, condescendingly. "What people call red hair is a mixture of two or three cOlors, according to the shade of red. Now, look here. If dab my finger in this yellow and mix it with that red, what do l getF'
 ''Why, exactly the color of hair the girl had today"
 II told you. so," said the artist, land don't let any one ever convince you that there is such o thing as real red hair. Call it red if you choose, but don think of it as the same color as a train lantern or a coaching parasOl, because you will De way of. Adelaide Nelson hads red hair, you know, one of the most beautiful tints, and Willie Winter spoke of it as the burnish- ed gold that floated around her royal head so if you choose to take that term you will be nearer the truth. '
 It is said by those who ought to know, and no one has cOntradictcd the state ment. that a red haired girl is never a stupid girl. She is always quick of speech and quick of action. Red hair brings with it a quick intelligence and generally great sensibility. When it comes with blue eyes and brown brows and lashes the owner is of a sentimental turn of mind and usually very musical; with brown eyes and dark lashes the red headed girl ia noted for her beauty of complexion-gen' orally an ivory white-her love of exercise, and is very frequentl~ endowed with great dramatic ability.
 A STRONG, EMOTIONAL NATURE
 Red hair always goes with a strong, emo tiOnal nature. and the red haired girl laughs and cries at the theatre when hel black and yellow haired sisters sit silent She Is a creature quick to anger, easy to please, a lOvable darling when she likes you, but sharper than a two edged sword and as bitter as early gOOseberries when she doesn't.
 'sWho are our red headed girls and wOmens'
 Those on the stage are well known. Mrs. James Brown Potter is perhaps the most interesting. Her hair is considered her greatest beauty. It isn't the ''rgddish' red hair. but it looks like bronze, touched with tint of golden flame here and there. Mary Anderson, who has light brown hair, by the way. raves over Mrs. POtter's hair and wishes hers was like it.
 Kate ClaXtOn has what is called real red hair-the bricky, carrOty, dark red tint-but it is not a bit unbecOming. It is so soft and silken, so plentiful and curls in loose ringlets. and then it has been such a salvation to her, so she says, for when fire meets fire they run apart, and she owes her miraculous escapes from burning hotels to her ruddy hair.
 In the literary world red hair Is in- tensely' admired. Emerson loved it, James WhitcOmb Riley has written many poems on it and in one calls it nut brown hair with golden gleam, " and Dante Gabrielle ROsetti's wife, who died when very young, had hair of a yellow red, long and curling. He buried all his poems with her, but the friends who had wished for his fame had them removed a few years afterwards and found that the beautiful red hair had grown and twined itself all about the manuscript
 In our literary world of to-day there are many women with red hair
 In the social world there are many red headed girls and women who are both bslles and beauties.
 Among the great army of girls who earn their living in the large dry goods stores there are many with red hair which society belles would give great deal of money to possess.
 A lady artist gives a few hints as to what colors Ted headed people should wear:
 Those who have hair verging on brown look well in anything. Most red headed people should avoid crimson; pink is be- coming tO pale golden rcd hair and q very fair complexion; green of all shades to all shades Of rcd hair; blue likewise; yellow to be avoided except by those with auburn hair; black especially becoming; also lay- endeT. New York Journal The London Zoo"