The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-16
REIGN OF THE FAIR HAIRED WO-
MEN is ALMOST OVER, SAY
SCIENTISTS,
FAMOUS BLONDES OF HISTORY
REMAINS THE QUEEN THROUGH
MANY AGES.
IF THE TYPE as DYING our
Will Be the First to Disap-
pear.


blondes will soon be a thing of the
past. The percentage of light haired
people is rapidly growing less and less,
and the day is not far distant when
there will be no more blondes 1t is
needless to say that this ethereal type
will be much missed, and the place of
the stately blonde will be hard to fill.
But everything has its bright side and
deepest regret will find a balm.
Nature is going to take from us our
golden haired gOddesses, let us hope
that art will follow in her footsteps
and remove hers. The loss of the real
! is great, but, oh, what infinite gain
to know that our. artistic taste and
love of nature will be no longer shocked
at the sight of the chemical blonde!
Some scientists have said that fair
people were the most highly developed
and as the human race advanced
blondes would increase. Are we then
| degenerating, that the type is dying
| out? Certainly it is a fact that more
blondes have figured in the worlds
history than any other type.
Cleopatra, the enchantress of the
East who won her kingdom with her
charms and conquered heroes of her
time, possessed red hair. Just what the
success Of this fair Egyptian would
| have been had she had black tresses
instead of red, posterity is unable to
| say, but that she was far in advance
of her darker sisters none can deny.
Coming down ia the worlds history,
it is found teeming with blonde wo-
men whose deeds have made them
famous Of Isabella Of CASTLE, whom
every American regards with a certain
amount of sentiment, her biographer
writes: Among those dark-haired,
| ive-complexioned Spanish ladies, as
If nature herself had put upon her
stamp Of peculiar excellence, she ap-
peared a blonde Isabella's superiority
over the other queens of her day needs
no comment when one remembers how
supreme over her vanity she rose-the
| besetting sin of her time-and sold
her Jewels that Columbus might start
! in quest Of the other side of the world,
which she was sensible enough to be-
lieve existed.
Another famous woman of this type
was Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Fer
rara, whose infamytor goodness Is now
mooted question:. In the whole
reign of medieval history there is said
to be no question more difficult of So
luton than a just appreciation of her
character. From the description given
of her by the writer's of her day 1t
would appear that a more Infamous
being never disgraced woman's form;
| that there was scarcely a crime that
| she had not committed nor a vice she
had not reveled In.
On the other hand, writer's of at least
equal eminence, both contemporaneous
and modern, speak Of her in precisely
| opposite terms. With them no praise
can be sufficiently strong to do justice
to her many virtues. By their de-
scription she would appear to have
been pious, charitable, amiable, an at
| tached wife and excellent mother to
her children, governing in the absence
! of her husband the states of Ferrara
with strict justice, tempered with
mercy; respected by her subjects and
beloved by her dependents. So widely
indeed do authorities differ as to the
real character Of Lucrezia Borgia that
| it is impossible. to-. decide between
them At the same time it must be
admitted that if some have been
been too unscrupulohs in their blame
! Swedens great queen, Christina, was
another evidence Of blondness and
! strength. fatsyx
Christina from being a homely child
grew to be a handsome woman, not
withstanding the misfortune of one
shoulder being lower than the other,
but this defect was successfully con-
cealed by high sleeves, which first set
| the fashion which has been so largely
patronized On hearing said in the
Catholic church, "He that marrieth do
eth we'll, but he that does not doeth
| better" she atseonce announced that
this was the religion for her, and at
no time Of her life would she be per-
| suaded to break her VOW
This queen gave to Sweden the first
entire peace she had enjoyed for
eighty-seven years. In the face of OPP
position Of church and state she be-
| slowed upon Germany one Of the great
est blessings she had to be thankful
for by terminating the Thirty Years
war.
There has been more than one in
stance where brunettes have had to
| give up their crowns in honor of their
| blonde sisters.
The creole Josephine had to give up
her imperial crown that it might adorn
| the brow Of the blonde Marie Louise.
| Margaret Of Valois, the queen of
Henry " of France, had to share the
same fate that Gabrielle desires
might be made queen; but death, the
mightier monarch, claimed her for his
| own Ger the coronation and while she
may have been placed on the great
white throne, yet one good action of
this woman whom Henry so tenderly
loved has immortalized her name. 1t
was due to her influence over the mon
arch-who confessed he could refuse
her nothing-that the edict of Nantes
was signed. 4g
How much her people preferred her
to Margaret was shown when they bore
her in triumph through the streets of
Paris covered with diamonds and other
precious stones.
The fair Margaret Of Anjou, who was
likened to her emblem flower the
daisy, was another queen of power AZ
ter the death offtheCk king, Henry VI,
she carried on the War of the Roses
and fought with untiring zeal for the
rights of her believed Edward. One
of her historians has said: England
| has never had queen more worthy of
q throne than Margaret No woman
surpassed her in beauty and few men
in courage. 1t seemed that she had
been formed by heaven to supply the
royal husband the qualities which he
required to become great king"
The unfortunate Termination, of her