Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08
Compilations and MOrals---Which
Have Been Most Admired?
Angels Always Blondes-satan Always
Swarthy-Brunettes More Loving
Blondes More Clever
Blondes Better Wives, from Worldly Point Of
View Brunettes the Best Wives Tor mas
terful Men-Medium-New Atlantis
rconrriehted by the author. ]

of the points of independence offered 10
them by the peculiarly free condition O.
American life, and that is, the woe
range of complexion and coloring open
to them.
And the reason say the peculiarly Tree
condition of American life, is because
there is no other country under heaven
whittier the children of other lands may
so freely resort, and where they may SO
easily and so soon become, not only
adopted sons, but lords of the
soil and rulers of the ma
tion. The olive-skinned Span
I'd and Italian, the dusky Greek ana
Oriental, the yellow-tinted SlaV' the
rudy and chestnut-haired nations Vi
Middle Europe, and the pale blondes Oh
Scandinavia and the far North, ALL al
flock to America as haven and nope,
and each brings not only his natiohai
character, but his national complexion,
to throw into the great grabbing held
omen Nv Columbia, who invites each of
| her children to thrust in his or her manu-
| and null out whatever Fortune senus
| him. or he is clever enough to secure ior
himself.
Now, if we think of it, here is birth
right worth having. How excessively
monotonous it must be to have an newt
! able complexion? For young woman
! TO know for certain that not one OF her
babies will be able to wear hellotrope, OF
| ale green, or any other of the blonde
tints: or for a lover to know that he
never can have the delicious privilege OF
! balancing the merits of black eyes ana
blue, gray eyes or brown, unless lndeeu
he expatriates himself from his own
country, wherein all the eyes are OF one
color.
Our American beauty-lover is reduceu
IN no such necessity, for in one walk
from the gates of Central park to- Madi"
son square he will probably meet the
gaze of bright, or soft, or smiling, or
LIQUID ewes of every tint and every shape
that the civilized world produces, ana
not lmprobably those OF sundry saVages
into the bargain.
And among them all which should you
think he would be likely to prefer The
answers would be as varied as the eyes,
but fancy the larger proportion would
be like my own, a simple 81 don I
know
once knew an Bnglishman of sound
opinions in most matters, VINO deelaFeu
that all the wickedness of the Worla
emauated from blonde women. He SAID
that so soon as he saw golden tresses ana
a milk and-roses complexion he began 70
guard himself as he would in the presence
of a lovely serpent. Women of this col
ring he declared were always cruel,
treacherous, cold-hearted and mischief
making. In fact he could not say enough
against them, and always suspecteqlAs
had had some bitter blonde experience
that had warped his Judgment
Then another friend of pine used Il
aver that the lydia Thompsdh blondes o
the corps de ballet bleached 5their leek'
and assumed the peaTly compiexaPR' pc
culia4 that style because the father oil
sS3 sfschief liked to thus burlesque To.
- livery of heaven.
y ssThen you grant it is the livery o
heaven?' suggested 1 on one occasion
and other persons being present, ire
and pretty heated discussion arose. Il
which one side claimed that no artist
no poet, no ecstatio religieuse had eve
imagined brown angel. Ihey al
WAYS have fluffy, golden hair taken Of
their foreheads by the wind, mild blu
ewes and fair skins, - remarked hig
church Young lady who probably ha
dome more angelic art-study and lltera
ture than any of u.s.
ssDid YOU ever see one?'' inquired IN
blonde hater.
''No. but -
.sDid you ever see any one that ha
seen one?'
tENo, but -
HExcuse me ,-but have you any ide
that Raphael or Fra Angelica or any
the angel portrait painters ever had
: angelic model?'
ssMany of the saints have seen them,
calmly replied the young lady, and
mocking voice at my elbow remarked;
"At least one can hardly fancy Sata
.-,basblonde. -
Oh. 1 campo exclaimed another
tsfn fact, my idea of Mephlstophel
f1asfss always been a colorless, haggaI
seomplexlon, red hair, and very pa
gray eyes, with red lights in them, al
the thin, dry sort of figure that go
81 with that complexion.
ri And so the ball was tossed from one
be another, and on the whole the blond
Us. rs haaa hard time of it. Somebody quot
he tHe saving of young beauty who
it'll sherubic face is surmounted by croV
- 81 of pure golden hair, whose rich abu
~ dance asserts itself IN tendrils and I'll
". and lovely shining curls, however >
tries TO dress it, and VINO I
"a. other day replied to compliment up
n her hair by saying she found it aim
| Impossible TO i've up 10 LHaI hinu VI ~"
d zone is expected to be SO HEAVIER
D; good, you know }" declared she in co
'Yt olussSn, and this was cited as proof IL
, q tie bl6nde was always accepted as
typsS6f virtue and perfection; but SON
~ else at once declared that
5 Sss sbeech showed the young lady to
q frivolous, vain, self-conscious, and
= know not what besides.
~ Then someone audaciously stared u
Il Teunyson sings in "The Princess,
~ Bright and fierce and tickle is the South,
"a And fair and true and tender is the North
Ii and the bruno party were discount
until someone picked up Tennyson
: lSStfnd that - fair had been substitu
for ''dark. -
80 And it seems to me that the VIII
world is Just as much. at variance on
! poiRt~as these friends of mine.
Certainly, as we consider the ram
"a beauties and the famous rulers OF
"a among women, we find the vote OF
rs tory nearly and evenly balanced o
~ Helen of Troy, they say, was blon
and Cleopatra was certainly very b
NAE nae uette. Aspasia's golden hair Is @