Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-09-14
GIRLS WITH AUBURN LOCKS.
HELEN OF TROY, LADY GoDIvA AND
QUEEN ELIZABETH.
Red Headed Maidens in Demand
Brighter than Others but with
Fiery Tempers.
from the New York Star. ]

of the army of red-headed girls who
were doubtless out of employment and
would answer that advertisement, and
then of the procession of white horses that,
according to general belief, travel in the
wake of girls with Titians or carToty
locks. Of course the others in the room
asked at what l was amused, so read the
advertisement aloud Nothing strange
in that" said one, and 'I'll venture to say
that out of the hundreds of unemployed
women who viii answer that call for
servant, there will not be more that one
or two girls with red hair" "What in
spite of the fact that a red-headed girl is
preferred ?" | asked. SIN spite of the
fact" said my companion.
To sum up his reasons, red-headed girls
are invariably smarter, quicker, brighter,
and the advertiser probably knew that
The reason he gave for SO few red-headed
girls responding was that, being cleverer
than other girls, fewer of them were natur-
ally out of employment or in quest of a
situation. Any one who will think over
the servants they have employed will
probably agree that those with red hair
were cleverest and they are usually neat.
There is one great detriment to the girl
with red hair; they are seldom without a
temper as fiery as their locks, and the
redder the hair the hotter the temper.
There are two varieties ofred- headed girls,
the carroty red, whose complexion invari-
ably freckles, and the Titians, red and
auburn, whose compilations are of dazzling
whiteness.
Helen of Troy, Lady Godiva and Queen
Elizabeth, were all celebrated red headed
women, and no one will gainsay their
cleverness, though it lay in different direc-
tions. remember in my graduating class,
the brightest scholar had red hair She
was great beauty, too. As rule, blondes
are cleverer than brunettes, and the nearer
the hair approaches red the cleverer they
are. There are, of course, many exceptions
TO this rule. | have seldom known a wo-
man with red hair who could not compose
poetry of greater or lesser excellence. They
all seem to have the gifts of rhyming and
yersifcation. Ella Wheeler Wilcox has
auburn locks. Red-headed men are also
Cleyerer than their darker haired brothers.
i don't know whether it was A. 7. Stew
arts red hair or his Scotch persistency
that made him what he was. "When |
enter store and desire to be served
quickly and well, | select girl or a man
with red hair, if there is one, and ! carry
out the same plan when | enter a hotel
dining-room." 1t would therefore seem
that the demand for red-headed girls was
very great, and that the supply was not
equal to it. A friend even carries the red
hair craze farther, and says of dozen pet
cats: THE brightest and easiest to be
taught is a red-haired cat, or what is COM
monty called tortoise-shell cat" We all
know what valuable animals the red Irish
settlers are.
Most red-headed women are buoyant in
spirits their natures are as bright as their
hair, and most of them are fond of bright
colors. True, they would look best in
white or black, yet | have never known
but one red-headed woman who liked 10
wear black dresses, even though they were
richly trimmed silks. They not only like
bright colors, but odd, peculiar shapes OF
conceits for their gowns. They are not
the women who enjoy dark, solemnly grand
rooms; the like sunlight, freight, bright
colored rugs, hangings and upholstery
They are seldom prim; in word, while
clearly, they are seldom orderly it would
seem that the very confusion was delight
Of the different red-headed women |
have known socially, all could write verses
one had a craze for large, pink roses, an
other for old and snowy jewelry; another
was a great lover and breeder of horses
still another was one of the first to become
collector of antique furniture: | know
apItIav ,,rlA =. al
makes good income in this way. The
best cooks | ever had were red-headed, and
the most efficient dressmakers.
Red-headed women are usually good
mathematicians. A woman with red hair
who is good is very, very good. like the
little girl with the curl; when they are
bad, they are unusually horrid. In both
cases they are positive natures, which
doubtless accounts for the fact that they
are very good or very bad; there is no hall
way with them. Whenever / am intro.
duced to man or woman with red hair
stop and study them. Shall | make of you
friend or foe? for certain it is that, if ]
know them at all, they will become either
one or the other; there is no middle course
to be taken with them. 1t is good rule
for every one to go by. Find ont if your
red-headed acquaintance are of the good
kind, and then make friends with them.
Once a friend always friend is their char.
acteristic.
| am particularly fond of red-haired
women; to me they are always beautiful il
they be pretty at all. Either the reddish
gold or the auburn locks are my fayorites
The carroty hair l have no affection for
though the possessors are active servants
A man once told me he never hired red.
headed clerk, "because, said he, though
they are bright, they are so crafty"-that
is, the carroty variety. Charles Dickens
thought so, too, and gave the world that
red-headed embodiment of craft, 'Uriah
Heep."
Red-headed girls as wives are success
if you catch mild one. They make theiI
home happy, bright place; they are
thrifty, they are the yeriest optimists. and
they are the most warm-hearted, affection
ate and demonstrative girls in the world
Poor men. am sorry the supply is moi
greater. 1t is but just to myself to ado
that my own treSSes are very dark brown.
1t is said that only one woman with rec
hair in twenty in civilized countries exists
SO it viii be seen that they are really
rarity Some set the number at far less
A Spaniard with red hair is very rare, bu
is considered prize, and If 1t be woman
she is considered a great beauty. know
an Italian here in New York who has red
dish gold hair. He reminds me of Seig
fried, and all the other blonde operate ne
roes. A Hebrew with red hair is not SC
uncommon as one might think. Wherevei
red-headed women are found they are
looked up to, oftentimes beyond, be tbs
place they occupy throne or the head o.
an humble home.
EVELYN BAKER HARvIER.
INTERESTING STATISTICS.