The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-05
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BIack-Eyed Beauties in High Favor Agan-Bondes Still
Hold Their Own

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There is no doubt about it that the
stage sets the fashions. For the last few
seasons we have as regularly looked for
the coming of the English companies as
a standard of beauty as we do to the
coming of the seasons to decide what
shall and what shall not be worn. All
along the preference in type of woman
has been given to the blonde but the last
smart English company that made d
specially of exhibiting beautiful women
had but one blonde in the group, and
she was anything but pale blonde. The
day of the brunette has come. She is OF
the dark hair in soft, full ripples, Of
great big dark eyes of glowing cheeks,
and of intense expression is in favor,
while the intellectual blonde is given the
go-by. However, though fashion may de-
cree one thing human nature will always
have its innings, and there will be men
who. whether Dame Fashion approves
or not, will lean toward blondes as nat
urally as they do to sunshine. These are
the men who approve Of the natural
blonde, not of the one whose hair is the
result of peroxide of hydrogen, whose
lashes and brows are cultivated, and
whose skin is made the pink shade that
it is by the use of various powders ami
liquids. A recent book on beauty tells
that with civilization came blondes; that
as the brain of women grew stronger
her hair grew paler and that she is in
her savage state when she is a brunette.
This is direct contradiction to the old
idea that heaven provided food, and the
devil furnished cooks, and, consequently,
when women began to eat cooked food
she grew pale in color. The most inter-
esting question about blondes and bru-
nettes is that of etensity of feeling.
Every woman wants to know which can
hold the affections of a man the longest,
the blonde or the brunette. The vote is
undoubtedly in favor of the blonde, as
far as holding the man goes, but in IA
vor of the brunette as far as the affec-
tons are concerned.
THE BLONDES SYSTEM.
Two positive types, the blondest of the
blondes and the darkest of the brunettes.
were talking of it. Said the blonde: "Yuu
brunettes always make the mistake Of
being too affectionate and allowing your
affection TO express itself in words as
we'll as in action. You convince a man
that he is the one object in your life
and all that you live for. He is so GER
tain that he grows Indifferent. He wear
les Of your caresses. He tires of your
sweet words. You see, you give him too
much plum pudding, and he does not ap-
preeiate it. Now, the way TO keep q
mas is to make him love you, but you
must not love him too much. Let him
realize that he is secondary to your dogs,
your frocks, and your books. When he
is with you, be at your best and your
brightest, but when you show him ia
vor make him feel it keenly. Write bright
charming notes to him, but never put
i love you on paper"
But" answered the brunette, " am
so perfectly devoted to the man | love
that | would trust him with any thing
l would write anything ! felt, and l am
sure nobody would see the letters but
his own dear self and that he would un-
derstand them.
"How about his valet?" asked the
blonde. "And suppose he should change
his mind or you should change yours:
each would marry somebody else, and
some other woman would nave the
pleasure of reading those letters and
criticising them? For my part, [ always
follow the advice of the French dipio-
mat, who said. Never write a letter,
and never destroy letter."
SOME THOUGHTS ON LOVE.
The brunette looked crestfallen. The
blonde looked sweetly judicial And a
little while after the believing brunette
heard that the one man to whom she
gave her alteration had not been to q
mems supper the night before. Instead
ne had been one among a party Of adj
mlrers who had given theatre and sup
per party to the farsighted blonde. So
they go on talking about blondes and
brunettes, and the man who is not in
love asks: What is love?' Here in AN
answer: Love is a selfish desire on the
part of one person to monopolize all the
time, attention, and charms of another.
1t is spoken Of as being everlasting. and
yet men jest about their summer loves
and their winter loves and think a Pres
idential election or rise or fall in stocks
more interesting than any love that was
ever INDUCED in. Some fool of man
commits suicide-says he does it for love,
when it is really for lack of brain. Some
fool of woman runs in debt buyiny
new frocks, spends her time before u
looking glass, and all because she wishes
to make man love her.ss.ssss--2-.-
Bother love-" says man. "Ciye me
comradship. / want to feel that I can
be pleasant with a woman; that we can
trot around together; that we can enjoy
the same things, discuss the same cues
tions, without all the folderol nonsense
called love-"
My MASTER" says I, "you think you
want companionship, and you count love
OF little worth. Oh, what fools these men
be-especially these intellectual nine.
teenth century men! My dear sir. there
never lived man in this world who did
not long for a woman to love him HA
likes to talk about comradship and affec-
,1oh-what he wants is love and devotion.
lie thinks that everything else in life.
protopiasms and meteors and politics and
al the rest OF the nonsense-should rom.
before love. Where in the world have
his eyes been? 1t is true that crimes
nave been committed for love( but oh!
so many good things have been done for
it's Sakai There hsva how Is