The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-02
RED HAIRED LASSIES.
Whose White Horses Drive Them to
Victory and Fame.

ut is reether redder than / could
wish" said the imperturable Bailey
in Martin Chuzzlewit," when Paul
Sweedlepipe shaved him for the first
time; and doubtless many a girl,
when she has glanced at her hair in
the mirror, has thought, if she has
not yet expressed, a similar sentiment.
There never was a time when
woman's hair and the fashioning of it
did not furnish a good deal OF material
for masculine satire, in some form.
But red-headed girls have had their
full share of the worlds admiration,
and a passion for the different shades
of red hair-golden. auburn, and
bronze red-has ragged very tiercely in
different periods, from the earliest
times.
The great italian painters, Titan,
Paul Veronese and others, loved the
gold-red hair, and their beauties were
| all crowned with the fascinating tint.
In the Merchant of Venice" Bas-
sanio, gazing with rapture on the
portrait of Portia, says
In her hair
The painter plays the spider, and hath woven
n OAoOA AAACoAA w NNO
In "As You Like It," Rosalind says
| of her lover:-.'His very hair is of the
assembling color" And when Celia
replies, Something browner than
| Judas Rosalind continues:-'T faith
his hair is of a very good color"
In the 1.-Two Gentlemen of Verona, J"
Julia says of Sylvia:-"Her hair is
auburn, mine is perfectly yellow"
Some of the greatest beauties of the
world have had hair the color of
| which was brown in the shadow, and
gold in the sum-"
Fair Rosamond's crisped locks are
compared by an old ballad to threads
OF gold.
Joan of Are, the beautiful enthu-
siast, had bronze golden hair such as
artists weave into their dreams of fair
women.
Helen of Troy had masses of tawny
hair and so had Sappho, the poetess
of Greece.
Cleopatra, Egypt's famous queen,
had red hair and was freclSled.
The auburn hair of good Queen Bess
is famous, and she delighted to dis
| play it for the admiration of her cour-
tiers. 1t is described as soft, silky
and wavy, of a beautiful golden
brown, and shone as though powdered
with gold dust.
The two most beautiful women that
England eve saw, and who took all
| London by storm, 1870 years ago.
were the beautiful Cummings, as
they were called. were red-headed
Irish girls. But theirs were
The bright tresses which deied
The sun to match them in his monday pride.
One of them became a duchess and
the other a countess.
In Ireland locks of the most fiery
hue have long been regarded as an at
tribute of beauty, even by the peas
antry. "She's an illigant lady, good
luck to herr some ragged loiter will
say. "She's a mighty fine woman en-
tirely; only it's a pity that she has not
red hair" An old Irish ditty has
these lines
Heigh for the apple and no for the pear,
But give me the pretty girl with the red hair.
Mary Queen of Scots wore red tresses
and SO did those famous beauties OF
France, Agnes Sorel, Diana of Poi
tiers and Gabrielle d'Estrees. The
ancient Roman ladies dyed their hail
red in order to make themselves more
beautiful and attractive, for they
liked what they called honey-colored
and auburn hair.
One w~orld-famous woman owes hel
Immortality to her auburn hair. Pc
trarch's eyes, wandering at church,
fell upon Laura, arrayed in a green
mantle, over which her hair fell in
| plated tresses. and his heart was won
forever
The snare was set amid those threads of gold
To which Love bound me fast.
And in one of his sonnets he says
The gold and topaz of the sun ON snow
Are shamed by the bright hair above those eyes
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