The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-22
Col. Barry Claims Light HaIE
Result Of Disease.
BRuNETTES HAVE GOOD HEALTH
Ha Predicts ths Disappearance Of FIaSsn
aud Peroxide TTsssss Within a Year.
DsCriss hIf Suusl Horses.

Columbus. o.. Jan. 22--Col. J. b. Barry,
a prominent horse dealer. breeder. sur
geon and student OF Chicago. lectured
before 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 blonde woman wears the evil
dence OF illness in her blue eyes and sun
ny hair as effectually as a pitted face in
dicates the ravages OF smallpox"
When correspondent asked him for
particulars he said he was satisfied that
his discovery was original. lie continued:
"a blonde woman will not exist a year
hence. Her iaxen tresses will reveal
the fact thar her blood Is tainted. She
will hesitate to admit this and. ii she is
naturally blonde, she will dye her
hair and use the black pencil
IF she is peroxide blonde. she viii
no longer visit tho drug store unless
to procure aye to undo the work she
has already accomplished In the bleach
ing process.
MY discovery that blonde women ara
the result of prehistoric disease came
in a peculiar way. / have long believed
a sorre horse. That color has been
known but a comparatively few years.
In my studies L learned not only that
the popularity of color I'm the sorrel
horse was the result Of an infectious
disease, but / also learned that the samo
was true of blonde beings.
What that disease may have been is
problematical and l have not learned IL.
! know so much about IT, however, that
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artificial infection. Histor yfails TO
name the disease, but posterity has per-
petuated the effect of Its awful power.
Where there appears TO be a blonde man
or woman there appears also the unde-
niable evidence OF disease somewhere In
the line of progenitors.
Originally all men were of n dark
color. Just when the blonde appeared T
cannot say, but the appearance of tho
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 .he sky. That strain is ap-
parent In every blonde man or woman
alive today.
II shall prove my theory soon Il
will have the effect of providing new
style of beauty to replace the blonde.
her beauty is at the cost OF frightful
illness. and she might as well carry q
banner explaining the difficulty of her
forefathers as TO wear yellow hair or
blue eyes. She will endeavor to change
these.
'I am not quite ready TO divulge tho
secret OF my discovery in its entirely
Suffice il TO say that rear hence
there will not be one to doubt II. 1t is
true. and / can prove II easily. {
shudder to think OF the depreciation In
the value OF horseiesh. but I am con-
vinced that the sorre horse will not be-
popular with aristocrats when they learn
that the animals color only exists be-
cause II had a disease which no one un-
derstands.
MY discovery proves that there was
reason in tradition that white horses
and red-haired women freduented the
same climes. The combination was
wrong: that was ALL