The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-20
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two extremes meet.
Science comes to the front and ex-
plains the phenomenon Of rel hair. SIT is
caused" says science, "by a suparabund-
ance of iron in the blood" This it is that
imparts the vigor, the elasticity, the great
vitality, the OVERLOOKING, thoroughly healthy
animal life which runs riot through the
veins of the iu~ddy-haired, and this strong
sentient animal life is what renders them
more intense in all their emotions than
their more languid fellow creatures. The
excess of iron ia also the cause of 1reckles
on the peculiarly clear, white skin which
always accompanies red hair. This skin is
abnormally sensitive to the action of the
SUMS rays. which not only bring out the lit
tie brown spots in abundance. but also burn
like a mustard plaster, producing a queer,
creepy sensation as II the KID was wink
ling up.
Do you know that these red haired peo-
pie are the brightest, or, as the Yankees
say, the smartest people of ali? Well, they
are. at least so I am told. | know of a big
factory in the east, whe,e are all
the shades are represented from the
vivid red down, down to the darkest
| chestnut auburn. Seven hundred men, wo-
men and children, all red-headed. When
the home bell rinGs, and the huge iron doors
clang open, the dark, gloomy street is illu-
minated, 90 if a brilliant sunbeam had
fallen from the sky and was sutfusing its
radiance through the lanes and byways of
the old factory town. once asked the pro-
| prietor what his idea WAS employing only
''strawberry blondes" He replied, ''Well.
Eli tell you. After long experience and close
observation of the mixed kind, found that
red-headed people possessed greater
vitality, more endurance, were sucker Mt
all kinds Of hand work, were less frequent
ly sick and unable to work: were of better
disposition, lighter hearted, and always
hopeful and helpful.
Their brains work quicker, they are
more intelligent. more evenly poised, and
consequently much easier to get along with
than the others, and so, by degrees, | re-
placed every brown and black and blonde
head with n red ono, and | tell you, sir, it
worked, it worked"
That is the prosaic, hard, practical side.
Look, now. at the sentimental one, to-,
after all, what is life robbed of all poesy
and sentiment? Let me ask you, in the sa-
cred privacy OF a newspaper, were YOU ever
loved by a sun-kissed lassia? Ye gods and
little fishes! AS moonlight unto sunlight,
as water unto wine" SO is the common
place woman's love to hers. 1t is no half
hearted, lanquid. chills-and-fever sort of
affection, let me tell you. Let her love a
man with her whole intense heart and pas
sionful soul, and, were he as cold rs a saur-
ian, his blood will quicken and pulse
through his veins at her touch; her vitality,
her passion is SO strong that it penetrates
and %permoates ones entire individuality;
it takes full possession of ones heart and
soul. and we do, like the SAVAGE, fall down
and worship. No, take her, and thank the
stars she is just as she ip.
In her love she is unseltish to fault. mo G
faithful than a dog. There is but the one
man in the wide world for her. and for him
she will endure, endure, endure; nothing
can shake her allegiance, nothing weaken
her devotion. The love of such a woman
Can put life into a stone. Until death, he,
love will BE- The warm, thrilling, passionate
emotion that keeps one young long after
lime has lain his whitening crayon upor
one. Man, go hence, find a red-hairec
maiden and, If not pre-empted, lay siege tc
her and make her your own, as | did twenty
years ago.