The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-01-25

10 keep ~ from >e"e"''s HD'
millinery.
,,therwfse. however IL never troubled
her and having worn it and carried IT
around in the same way from her earliest
infancy, she had grown accustomed TO ~
.d would have Leen amazed, II not nor
rified. had she awakened any morning
and discovered that the color had chang
ed to snowy white or deep raven
winged black. During her childhood she
lad heard it frequently referred 90 IN an
irritating way by companions of her own
age. She had heard the piping voice OF
the virulent smal! boy ringing through
the welkin With the penetrating informa-
zion that her hair was on fire. and the
same gentle. but Calling, tones, had
reached her ears in semi-musical chunk
which had sound like this;
Red head.
lie sbed
That is what your NANNY said.
And many more efforts at twining red
hair into aorching jokes had come TO her
knowledge; but as the years ripened- and
her sreckles grew apace as the color OF
her hirsute covering deepened-as the
Es~cious juiciness Of round and glorious
womanhood became more and more APP
parent to the naked eye, Mamie Navarro
l,ad learned to ignore all red headed
Jokes, and 10 take greater and deeper
pride in the ro-cafe splendor of her hair.
Once red hair came very near to being
slle f.tshion. That was whcn the Titan
esque brand was in large demand among
cigarette package decorators. Mamie
sas ecstafse The world was on the brink
of 4 revolution. If the revolution came
her way. then she could snap her fingers
at the blondes and brunes and brunettes,
and shake her CORY locks in their direc-
ton until they were hearisick and des-
perate with envy. You can paint the
front walk red, and you can throw wild
Indian hue around show ease or
store front, but you cannot dye hair red,
and there Mamie had her towheaded and
let locked sisters by the back of the neck,
netaphorically. But the revolution did
mot come Nannie's way. II cut across a
lot and shot up an alley, and the brown
nutied girls became the rage.
Fate is hard upon the red headed bri-
gade. Statistics show that there is some
thing in the fragrant tint of their capil-
larry crops which keeps 80 per cent. of
. :. in constant hard luck. Men with
wide eyebrows and prominent sites on
their skulltops for the erection of large
warehouses of common sense refuse abso-
lutely TO have anything to do with red
headed girls, and will not marry them be-
cause they look upon their flaming top
knots as unmistakable bcacons warning
the voyagcr from the dangerous shores of
red hot temper Fiery hair has come
10 be accepted the world over as an indi
cztion Of fiery temper And some au-
thorities say that red headed woman
can get mad enough in a minute to crush
her teeth through cold pig iron.
mention these things just to show
how much hard lucka red haired person
has TO buck against. And Mamie Ma
varre was no exception.
She was engaged to Redmund Rose.
lie had pale hair. but was a nice young
man. who knew enough to refrain from
wearing red neckties or partaking of any
beverage that might induce red nose,
aud he did this purely out of respect for
the color of Nannie's hair. Redmund
was as handsome and desirable blonde
rs any woman could wish to van, and he
would give the last cent of his salary To
gIorify his Nannie's fiery coiffure. He
was perfectly gone ON it. That fam
ing i.1nch of berry red bang filled his
eye with joy and his heart with delight.
He would give strand of that notorious
red hair for the same thickness of bank
hills, And as Mamie held him in quite
AS high esteem as he held her and her red
hair. what wonder was there that they
have agreed to float down the stream of
time together and to begin floating on
September % of the present year?
With this perfect understanding be-
tween the two persons most concerned
in this matter, my story begins. 1t be-
gins on September IA, nine days before
the date of the wedding. And here, too,
begins y Jamie Navarre's toughest streak
Of hard luck. On the l4th she went
down town TO buy some presents which
SIDE wanted 10 make ID herself on her
wedding day-preseafs 10 which she
would attach cards indicating that her
brother, her mother and ber father had
sent the ofierings-aRd Us she passed
conspicuous corner she saw some men
rush from barber shop and cxelaim, as
they pointed to her:
There goes one, now Where's your
white horsa7"
BY golly. there he comes and the
crowd looked up TIE street. laughed.
seemed satisfied aud retired again into
the shop.
AZ another point she was gliding by
drug store when three men left the soda
fountain in response TO shout from
s-ne twirler ON the pavement
Hello, boys, heres a red-headed girl
but don't see any white horse"
There comes white mule sal 4 one
Of the soda apping trio, as his delicate