The morning news., 1892-03-31
PASSING OF HE BLONDE.
She Il Being Crowded Out By the
Stately and Athletic Brunette.

Stately and Athletic Brunette.
From the Rel1 York Recorder.
A cry has gone forth that the blonde type
of woman is disappearing, that the golden
haired, blue-eyed, peaches and cream girl
is being showed out by tall, athletic young
woman with dark hair and big, dark eyes.
This IS not the first time that this wall has
been uttered. 1t is the same old howl which
goes up annually. but as this is the first
time 1t has been raised this year, it is, per.
haps. fitting to stop and consider the Truth
of the story.
1t would he sad thing to really believe
that all the blondes were fading out Of the
world Why, since the world began, the
blonde woman has been the acknowledged
type OF innocence and truth. All the Writ
ues nestled comfortably In her amber
tresses, and all the graces played hide aud
seek in the fringes of her azure eyes. Do
you suppose you could persuade any one
that Eve was a dark-haired womans Did
you ever hear of a black-eyed angel.
Why, know a woman who used to cry
herself to sleep every Sunday night when
she was a child. She thought she was too
good to go to hell, but she didn't see how
they were going to make room in heaven
for brunette, and 1t preyed on her mind
ewfully.
All the bewitching women whose names
have been immortalized in history aud
poesy were blondes. Don't you know that
the hair OF Venus rippled on her divine
shoulders In golden floods Ceres hair
was corn colored. Helen of Troy had lock
as yellow as wheat. The old masters have
painted Salome, who danced for the head Of
John the Baptist. with crown Of golden
hair. Remember Lucretia Borgia's
ttawny aureoIe. Lady Macbeth
Mary Tudor, Catherine and Marie
de Medici, sAnne of Austria
Mime. de Sevigne were all blondes. One OF
the greatest charms of the Empress Eugene
was her golden red hair. Queen Elizabeth
had distinctly red tresses. Cousin describes 8
the hair Of the Duchess de Longueville as
''the finest Of ashen- blonde hair, falling in
rich curls around the pure oval face and
spreading over the perfect shoulders.
The Roman women hated their dark
hair andwors blonde wigs. imported from
Germany at fabulous prices.
The German women were very proud of
their light locks, and those who did not
possess them washed their hair In beer or
rubbed it with plaster of lime.
The Venetian ladies underwent all sorts
of torture to produce the bronze tints called
after Titan, which are so popular with our
actresses to-day.
So, you see, in other days there were
plenty of blondes. 1t is famous humorist
who tells us why nowadays we have more
brunettes than blondes.
Heaven, !" he says, ''sent upon the earth
many women with golden hair that they
might charm the other half of humanity.
Seeing this, the dsvil who hates men, sent
cooks These, with their sauces and ra-
gouts, disordered the human liver and pro-
duced the desired result-dark skin and
hair"
There may be grain of truth in this
witticism or it may be merely a peevish
thrust born of gout but it serves to show
that even humorist who is engaged in
making jokes all his life eau realize a sad
truth when he comes in contact with 1t.
The novelists also seem to appreciate the
fact that the blonde type is out of the race,
for they make their heroines brunettes.
One can remember when the good and gem
tie heroine of a novel was always pale
sanity creature, with turquoise eyes and
honey-colored tresses. Gradually she
changed to plump and cheerful brunette,
with hazel eyes, brown hair and red cheeks
In these days she is a tall, willowy individu-
al, with either green eyes and bronze-red
hair, or gray eyes and reddish-brown hair.
But if blondes are scarce, if golden hair
is not often seen, so 10 black hair. That
heavy veil OF tresses as black as a ravens
wings and with the same purplish shadows
in it which is the heritage of the patrician
Italian women, is seldom seen elsewhere.
We have bleached blondes and drab
blondes. and we have muddy brunettes
and half~and-half brunettes, but we rarely
have the perfect type in either case.