The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-20
RED HAIR HATH CHARMS.
It Also Hath Certain Advantages If
You Fall Among Wild
..... Savages.
The Devil, Searching for an IRE
sistable Temptress, Took a
Redheaded Woman.
Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and the Saviour
Himself, Had Auburn Hair-Scien-
tiiic Explanation.

Did you ever think how few red-haired
people there are in the world? Take any
town, for instance, of 5000 or 1000 popula-
ton, and out of that number there will be
only between 100 and 200 whose heads are
red, and by 'red heads" l mean those of a
tint varying from sandy to dark auburn. So
you see that a red-head is really a rara avis,
says the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette,
and should be appreciated as such. All
indian tribes pay homage to ruddy locks,
and never venture to lay vandal hands on
them, regarding the possessors Of such as
children of the sum-" hence objects of
veneration, not to be rudely violated or
suddenly scalped. The members of some
savage tribes, found in heather countries,
where the sun, moon ana stars are wor-
shipped, have been known to fall down, in
awesome homage, at the feet of a belated
traveller, mumbling them and kissing them,
while the traveller trembled in his boots, ex-
pectlng every moment to be slaughtered.
The frightened traveller could, with diff
Guilty, be made to understand that his head,
the bane OF his childhood, the never-endinp
butt of ridicule in maturer years, had not
only saved his life, but made him worthy
to be a god.
In many countries red hair in itself en-
titles a woman to the claim of beauty. In
Italy the most beautiful women and the
most depraved have possessed locks sun
kissed by the sum- Lucretia Boz gia, whose
name Is the synonym of horror. was red
haired. Cleopatra, Antony's conquerer,
had hair which gleamedlike FURNISHED cop
per In the SUM-, land SKIN, which shone like
pearl, SO white, SO white" In other words.
she was q seductive, misunderstanding.
authenticated woman, of such a type as
could only have bewitched and turned poor
Antony from the path of virtue and duty.
None of your mmo place, brown-haired.
dark-eyed ~lassles, nor your insipid, lauguid,
blue-eyed, blonde-locked maidens, nor the
black ones. with their swarthy skins and
jet-liko eyes, would have had the power.
The devil, when he wished to tempt the
pious hermit III his lonely desert, when all
his other arts and wiles had failed, took the
form OF & woman, clothed with oniy a veil
of the darkest red hair" which 'twined and
twisted We are told, like snakes of cop
per-" curling themselves about the poo,
MANS neck and breast like things alive
while her cheeks got passion
flushed against his own. Tradition fats to
relate the end, but dare say he succumbed,
and went over to the tlesh-pots of Egypt
Who can blame him? Not l.. Not YOU
"We've been there" and but let us admire
the artfulness of his satanic majesty in hit
ting upon the most seductive, the most irri
s:stlble form of womgnly loveliness for his
temptres5.
Curiously enough, although the arch-typ.
of intense passion is red HAIR, it is also tht
type of the highest parity. We have il
from Josephus, as well as from sacred mar
ratlve, that the Savior had curling auburn
locks, a sinoularly clear. white skin aue
tender. soulful eyes of gray. His Virgin