The times., 1899-08-20
PASSING Oh THE BLONDE
theatrical Managers Dethrone
Golden Locks for Ehon.
The Rose and Liiy-Hued Beauties of
the StnEe No Longer In Favor
Bruncttes Are Now I'm style
Modern Examples of the Enrhnnt-
Ing Cleopatra Coming to the Fore

This alleged passing of the blonde has
set certain historical delivers. among them
a writer in the Minneapolis Tribune at
work to hunt up the record of some OF the
NEST famous of the rose-and-Ifly-h
beauties who. since the creation OF the
world. have held sway over the hearts and
fortunes Of men.
The record begins with Lileth the bad.
beautiful. blonde first wife OF Adam. who
Is said TO have been OF most quarreiscme
and tantalizing disposition. We are told
that Adam. who was the most patient or
men. put up with her whims and antics
until she began to court the society OF
demons Then. although she was the only
woman in the world he cast her OF. He
did not find II good for man to be alone.
and ere long Eve was created as the com
panion of his solitude She was beauseous
as the angels and akin to them In spirit.
until she fell beneath the wiles OF the
arch tempter. and By eating OF the fruie
of the forbidden tree
Brought death into the world and all oar woe.
Milton raves over The golden tresses
that hung disheyeied down to her slender
waist and makes her blonde Of the
purest type.
Pandora Is represented In the old Greek
myth as a blonde Of the most rayishing
sort Endowed by the gods with every
fascination that could ensnare the hearts
OF men. she was sent down from Olympus
bearing a casket filed with evils that.
when once let loose. would work the IN
doing of the human race
Circe the enchantress. who threw her
baleful spells around the astute Ulysses
and his comrades, was also the ioveIiest OF
blondes. So was Venus. to whom Paris
gave the prize OF beauty over all the other
/ goddesses. OF all the blondes who have
wrought mischief in this world OF ours.
Helen OF Troy bears OF the palm. But for
her. Troy might still be standing. and its
verse by Homer and Virgil. would not have
been written.
/ Another mischievous blonde was Poppea
Salbina, the wife of Nero. VITO Used TO SET
off the splendor of her golden locks and
| the exquisite fairness of her complexion
with gowns that each cost million dollars
in our money. Lucrezfa Borgia was brit
! liant blonde with readish-goIden hafr. so
was that other expert poisoner. Madame
Brinvilliers. Queen Elizabeth OF England
was blonde as fair but not ss beau.iful
Mary. queen Of Scots
Were the record OF the historical bru-
nettes looked up. it would form chapter
quite as racy as that OF the blondes Cleo
patra, the enehantress Of the Nile with her
! brow Of Egypt" is an iilustrious exanpls
of brunette witchery and wickednes5- Nj
non de Lenclos, who died ar ninsty years
beautiful to the last. was a brunette mads
blonde by the chemists art So was Cath
r54 do Mlf7fn 81 n in rrrtr ia
the enamored Petrareh wrote three hun
dred sonnets. It is said was also q cSemi-
cally- -bIeaehed blonde.
In art. poetry and fiction the blondes
have reigned queens from the beginning 3
Titan painted only blonde beauties whers
one brunette ike the stately. lovely. and
shigh-souled Rebecea. of Scott's ~Ivanhoe. .
has been made a heroine or romance. q
score of fair-haired blondes of the Rowenl
type have been chosen for this honor
AS the dark races become incorporated
with the white races-a process shat is
rapidly going on the olive, languoTouS
beauty of the South will be more and
more in evidence and assert its claim to
the recognition of the poet. painter. play
wright, and romancer. But the passing
of the blonde viii be only for b-iei
space and within narrow limits The
blondes and the bFunettes will still find
I L0elI separate CCtrllcS VI tAl-
none will grndge the darker beauties a lit
tie larger place in popular admiration
That nation whieh has no history is sait
TO be happy. The same truth holds gocS
! | in individual lives. The Helens and Gle
opatras OF legend and history are not Il
be taken as types OF the great majority o
women both dark and fair. who, in III
secluded walks OF life, find content an'
: happiness unknown to their more farnou
sisters, and. in turn. diffuse happines
around them The feminine virtues AM
graces are confined TO no one class, race
, or order of womanhood. AS for centurie
the blonde style of beauty has been tn
/, ! theme OF poets and romancers, the work
! of today seems to think it only fair tina
: | brunette beauty should also have It
! | idealization.