The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-02-05
4 DISEASE.
Chicago Horse Dealer Declares
It an Evidence Of illness.
BRUNETTEs ONLY ARE HEALTHY.

Predicts the Disappearance OF Flax
en- and Peroxide Tresses Within
. Gear Also Decries All Sorrel
Horses and Asserts His Ability to
Breed Sorrel Colts at Will - His
Novel Theories ON This Subject.
Colonel j.. 3. Barry. a prominent
horse dealer. breeder. surgeon and stu
dent of Chicago, lectured recently be-
fore the faculty of the University Of
Ohio on the peculiarities of horse breed
ing. After the address in talking with
some of the professors he said:
EVERY blond woman bears the evil
dence of illness in her blue eyes and
sunny hair as effectually as a pitted
face indicates the savages of small
pox."
He said he was satisfied that his dis
covery was original and continued:
"A blond woman will not exist a
year hence. Her fiaxen tresses will re-
veal the fact that her blood is tainted.
She will hesitate to admit this. and IL
she is naturally a blond she will dye
her hair and use the black pencil. If
she is a peroxide blond. she will no
longer visit the drug store unless to
procure dye to undo the work she has
already accomplished in the bleaching
process.
"My discovery hat blond women
are the result of a prehistoric disease.
came in a peculiar way. l have long
believed that there was something Pc
culiar about a sorrel horse. That color
has been known but a comparatively
few years. In my studies LEARNED not
only that the popularity of color in the
sorrel horse was the result of an infec-
tious disease. but l also learned that
the same was true of blond human
beings.
"What that disease may have been Is
p~roblematical. and I have not learned
it. | know so much about it, however,
that l can produce a sorrel colt at will
by artificial infection. History fails to
name the disease, but posterity has
perpetuated the effect of it's awful
power. Where there appears a blond
man or there appears also the
u%ndeniable evidence Of disease some
where in the line of ~progenitors.
"Originally all men We're of a dark
color. Just when the blond appeared I
cannot say. but the appearance of the
light hair and eyes was simultaneous
with the outbreak Of a terrible disease.
A man with black hair and eyes fell
sick in prehistoric times. When he re-
covered. his hair was sunny and his
eyes as blue as the sky. That strain Is
apparent in every blond man or woman
alive today.
II shall prove my theory soon. It
will have the effect of providing a new
style of beauty to replace the blond.
No woman will be willing to admit
that her beauty is at the cost of q
frightful illness, and she might as we'll
carry a banner explaining the difficulty
of her %forefathers as to wear, yellow
hair or blue eyes. She will endeavor to
change these.
II am not quite ready to divulge the
secret Of my discovery in it's entirety.
Suffice it to say that a year hence
there will not be one to doubt it. 1t is
am ! van pIuNe u edSuy., ! u
der to think of the depreciation in the
value of horsefesh. but | am convinced
that the sorrel horse will not be o
lar with aristocrats when they learn
that the animals color only exists be-
cause it has a disease which no one un-
derstands.
my, discovery proves that there was
reason in the tradition that white
horses and red haired wompn frequent
ed the same clinleS The combination
was wrong: that was all s,w York
World.