Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17
THE RULE OF THE BLONDE.
She Il Getting scareer and Prized Accord
ingly = Bald-Headed Lie& About Now
York styles-Nine-Tenths OF the Race
Arc Superstitious-Odd Stories

to certain social atmospheresf That Is what
the oDservant stroller of New York streets
may ask himself, looking over various
phases of metropolitan womanhood. You
can stand half an hour or SO at the corner
of Twenty-third street and Broadway, OF at
any of the cross streets below, where women
and girls flock home by thousands in the
early evening, and the number of dark
haired women and the paucity of blondes
will astonish you. Take the Brooklyn
crowd at the ferries, If you wish. Count the
number of pure blondes and compare them
with the whole number OF brunes and bru-
nettes and these queries will chase each
other through your otherwise vacant mind.
You will find scarcely one decided blonde to
the hundred.
These are working women, shop-girls,
clerks, typewriters, factory girls, cash girls
and girls Of every conceivable occupation
except the fashionable occupation of IDLE
ness. They present every shade Of dark
ness. Nineteen out Of 20 plain black from
head to foot. and the twentieth may sport
a gay hat or light jacket. Nine out of ten
will have more or less dark compilations,
and hair running from medium brown to
raven black with eyes to match. The tenth
is usually an undecided blonde, and only
now and then-say once in ten cases OF these
exceptions-what may be properly called
pure blonde. You tnstinctively recall the
dark women of Venice, and wonder whether
these thousands are altogether the children
Of the Southern and Hebrew races.
More Blonde shoppers Than Clerks.
The Venetian women present many
lovely blondes, especially among the upper
classes. So do the women OF Now York.
Change your sauntering ground to Fifth
avenue OF upper Broadway on matinee days
and you will see plenty of blondes of the best
type-or to Sixth avenue Of an evening, and
there OF the worst type. Behind the foot
lights the blonde reigns supreme. Yes,
many of them are manufactured blondes.
But are our society blondes OF to-day manu-
facturedf I think not. But why should
thens s' so much ss tSsa Of
ersf The more swell the place.
in Venice. the more blondes you see-the
blondes you see. You who have nothing
else to do please tell me why that is.
The decadence of the blond among us Is
nnmissaka6ie .,lna Forty years ago blonde wo,
brunettes are to-day. Now, the blond at.
tracts attention on the street. She is so rare
that men turn and stare after her. In society
they swarm around her. She is chased down
by admirers. There is enthrallment in her
soft blue eyes, And when those eyes are
dark brown it is madness. The silken frizzes
o
When the novelist describes rare female
beauty he makes his heroine Q blonde. When
a man runs away with another mans wife
she is q blonde. The wicked woman of the
cable dispatches is distinguished as a beauti-
full blonde. She is the cynosure OF male eyes
everywhere. Men kill each other on her ac-
count without compunction. They marry
her, too. She is lovable and indlscriminately
beloved. Therefore she ia married early and
divorced early. The rarer she becomes the
more we rave over her. As the rapidly ex-
piring remnant of the pure Anglo Saxon race
the blonde has become as dear to us as the
red ear at a corn-husking-and quite as
scarce and pleasantly suggestive.
Birds of a Feather Flock Together.
LIT is curious how the same gangs get
in here together every day." said the bald
headed bartender at che Cafe Savarin.
"They don't seem to look for each other
but get together as If 1t were q
coincidence. 1t is nearly always the same
set, too. You'd think 1t was a put-up Job.
Three or four big lawyers will get over there
and talk an hour after lunch and then look
at their watches and run away like lot of
who may get tardy marks. The
knots OF brokers never get very far from the
ticker. They can't keep their fingers of the
tape even when telling stories. They talk
ns%spaperf feiows may may tell % stories' bss G1S thew
are usually about the shop, about fakes |
and beats and salary, and what is going on |
nj the other Offices. There are couple Of
who get their heads together be- |
hind that pillar about o'clock every day |
Ind whisper schemes.
II can tell most Of those who usually get |
their names. We hear all kinds Of things |
nere-and odds and ends of business, stocks, |
aw, politics, journalism, real estate rents |
ne tired. Why sensible men men will viii talk about %
heir domestic matters at public bar beats |
III. With most men a couple of drinks
means either good deal of free talk about
business OF about their homes. What most
nen live for they have uppermost and what |
8 uppermost comes out first This is a great
,lace to meet people,"
To meet anybody except the man who |
yves you $3.50.
Hunting for Stylish Hat.
People out of town hear good deal
bout "New York fashions" and "New York
tyles." They come to the metropolis half
expecting to see the greater portion of we'll
o-do New Yorkers in un1form-that is, ar
aged in some prevailing and well accepted
lyle of hat or coat and presenting a dis
motive New York tout en- semDle. They
nay want to buy something and wish to go
lome with the latest fashion. Imagine the
urpcise of such an individual, therefore,
When he takes turn down Broadway by
lay, or watches fashionable audience from
theatsr lobby by night and fra sees New
.
happened In town the other
lay on business, pleasantly diversified by
he usual routine of recreation to visitors,
md had money enough left when he got
through to purchase a suit Of clothes.
1.-THE day was warm" said he, "and 1
hought would get me new hat. SoIre
1orkers were wearing. You see, our hat
tore people out there tell everybody who
,uys hat that he's getting the latest Now
FORK style, and, as most of us don't know
hat o. bra l1-alx fD be frOT11 fNuf fN
Ell years behind on the vintage. don't go
much on a hatstnre clerks reputation for
'eracity, anyhow, and I thought I'd just
ook round q little before invested. / be-
an looking round. Whenever 1 saw n
well-ooking duck on Broadway I looked
round at him and took In the hat he wore.
early rs possible, you see. I'm not very
cry particular, but some of those saw
Toudn't be found dead with. The next
Tell.dressed man wore an entirely different
at and looked stylish, too. From looking |
,ound for a hat for myself got to wonder
1g how in the world all of these varieties
yer got into existence. No particular hat
could find seemed to have attained q pop
larity TINT embraced two persons.
"Finally, l stopped in front Of n hatstore
1indow thinking about it. policeman
Did me couldn't stand there all day.
"I don't want to stand here all day. said
but suppose these hats are here to look
"'welI, why don't you go inside If you want
|
,oking Tor hat is liable to arrest for study
lg the styles in IL Broadway window struck
ie as rather funny. laughed.
You'd better move on, said the police
ian, sternly. I've been onto you for the
st hour or two
"'Oh, you haver says 1. Then maybe you
In help me OUT Then explained.
Hats of the Business Men.
-" well, that's all right, says he, very
iendly. 'Why don't you go downtown .