The Red Cloud chief., 1901-05-03
IlluStrious
Red-haired
People.


women been fiery headed?
For this startling query the world IL
indebted e. a man who was al least
| phenomenallv successful, II ne was not
great-the late p u. Armour. Chlcaau's
richest millionaire. .nasmuch "a MIR.
| Armours own hair was SANDY as he
| called II, he had strong rcrso lil In.
trrcst In tnNostiyatlng this question. and
is now known to have found great COM
| ISOLATION for his lack OF blond or swarthy
| cOmeliness In the creed that red locks
arc Indeed badg" OF courage and more
At all events the point ought tu he set.
tied II red hair holds the potentialit; of
| greatness, those who have. and moro
| particularly thoee who haven't IT, ought
| to know if 1t IL something more than
subject OF cheap buftooncry tho
| popularity accepted cunComitant OF a
vixen!sh temper-or the delight of the
! ultra-aesthetlc colorist-if u actually IL
spur to success and its lack a handicap
| then II Is quite time the world stopped
jestirg about red hair aud treated II with
! proper reverence.
Indeed, poets and painters who have a
wisdom of their own. have had good
! deal to say about red hair as YOU will
remember. They have seen In II the re,
|
fire and to FURNISHED metal. and the color
OF human blood. and they have made II
the symbol Of life and light and heat and
strength. They have also worshipcd u
as thing OF great beauty, which ought
to be sufficient rcbuke to those who stoop
| to iests of the white horse order
But perhaps 1t remained for the Chi.
| cago beef dealer to discover what red
hair really meant. At all events. this Is
! what Mr.. Armour, according to the Rev.
| DR.. Gunsaulus. had to say about Il:
| without sandy-haired people the world
| would have frozen to death. The giants
and masters Of trade and commerce are
men OF temper and many OF the captains
on great fields of war had redder hair
! than mine. The secret OF II all IL, not to
let things get so hot that there Is danger
of a connagration.
"Well, what a time they had In the
world he said of Cromwell. Napoleon.
Columbus and Thomas Jefferson. queen
women. Who are the two most famous
women of ancient days? Helen OF Troy.
probably. and Cleopatra the siren OF the
Nile. Both had red hair II tradition may
he relied upon, of uncompromising red
ness.
The most famous OF women warriors
and martyrs. Joan of Arc--the most
famous Engishwoman. the relentless
Elizabeth-the most notorious OF Italian
women. the wicked Lucretia Borgia. all
wore the hallmark of their tremendo
personal power In their wonderful abund.
ant auburn hair Red also was the hair
of the unfortunate Mary Stuart. great in
the power To charm: and of Catherine OF
Russia. great In the power to rule.
hn NJ arl.
toinette. most beloved and most Inflated
OF queens. and Nine. Recamier. perhaps
the greatest social influence ever felt In
France. as well as one of the most bcauti-
full of women. Unfortunate Beatrice
Cenci Is another famous red-haired Ital-
ian. Sarah Bernhardt the greatest act
ress of her time, can hardly be ranked
| with any one nation. but is rather "A citi-
zen of the world. Perhaps 1t is no more
than a coincidence that she has red hair
Perhaps 1t is Indicative of her genius.
Elizabeth was also one OF them. and they
call her the greatest Englishman of her
time"
To prove that there was some founda-
tion at least for the Armour theory the
New York World writes study Of the
accompanying list of great names They
have been chosen partly at random part
~ Win view 10 cover as many periods
and places az possible. The list is only
suggestive and by no means exhaustive
Yet II shows that there is no epocn OF
history when there was not some really
great man or woman with red hair From
Helen of Troy to Mrs. Leslie Carter-who.
II she was not born great has had great
ness forcibly thrust upon her-from Alex
ander the Great to Robert Fitzsimmons--
red hair blazes beacon.like along the line
OF fame.
To be consclentlously chronoln ngical be.
gin with Alexander. There Is not the
slightest ooubt either that he was great
or that he had red hair.
mo single PER- pnality, except the car
penters son OF Nazareth, has done so
much to make the world OF civilization
We live In what 1t is," says one OF his
biographers. The greatest king and the
greatest commander among all the
Greeks the pattern OF all subsequent
warriors and hstorymakers. the red
haired Alexander. ought alone to be sum
cient encouragement TO The red ha lred of
all time
There were many other red-haired
Greeks. Demctrlus. the Miced phIan COM
mander was one of them. And many OF
the best fighters among the Romans were
red.hsired likewise. even though they
may all seem to us nowadays as color
less as statues
Caesar, for Instance. the greatest night.
er OF them all. the shrewdest statesman
the most absolute master OF his own IAN
guage, written or spoken. had red hair
Sulla the Dictator, who rose to consider.
able emlnence In his own day. though he
failed to perpetuate himself by writing
anything that could be used as text
book. as others OF his countrymen were
farsighted enough to do--was also of
what Mr.. Armour would term SANDY
complexion.
And though red Is supposed to be the
fighting color, all these men, II Is plain,
were not only excellent fighters. but
much more. What more powerful mind
ever impressed itself upon the British
people than that of Cromwell. the Theo-
dore Roosevelt OF his time? Or who ever
so dominated not France alone but the
whole Of Europe as Napoleon Bonaparte
perhaps the most powerful personality