The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-28
From the Washington rImes.

From the Washington Times.
 Blonde-haired persons are. as rule. sensitive. impulsive. changeable, and as- sertive. and are supposed to be more re- fined esthetic and spiritual than dark haired people. At leasto this is inferred from the fact that all. or nearly al fa- nous paintings represent angels with blonde, golden. or fiaxen hair.
 In 1875, scientist declared that blondes were fast becoming. extinct, owing to the want of certain necessary clements in the modern makeup. At any rate, blonde hair is less seen than formerly.
 According to a good authority only 15 per cent of the inmates of Auburn, N. Y. state prison are blondes,
 Correze, Allier, Haute, Grouse and other districts of France are frequented by merchants for the purpose of buying from indigent women their long hair. The usual price Is from $1 to 8 for the back hair-theo nly part cut off--accord- ing to the quality and color. Blonde hair brings the highest price. but is chiefly obtained in Germany, Switzerland. swed- en and Norway. In Victor Hugo's Les Miserables" this custom of selling the hair Is noted in thls passage:
 "One day they wrote her that little Cosette was quite naked; that she want ed a flannel skirt and that the mother must send at least ten francs for the purpose. She orumpled the letter in her hands all day, and at nightfall went to barber's, at the corner Of the street, and removed her comb. Her splendid light hair fell down to her hips.
 What fine hairr the barber ex- claimed
 "' What will you give me for itf she asked.
 Ten Francs.'
 "Cut 1t off /"
 Sylia. the Roman tyrant. thought him. self to be an extraordinary" man be- cause his hair was golden. Ole Bull. tho Norwegian violinist, was sometimes call ed the "Flaxen-haired Paganini. Thom- as Galnsborough, the famous English painter was a blonde. Thorwaldsen, the Danish artist and sculptor, had yellow hair, described by Fra Albertus as the color of a summer tow" Queen Victoria In her girlhood is described by Miss Por- ter as "a beautiful child with cherubio form of features, clustered round by glossy, fair ringlets." When Sarah Bern hardt played the King of Rome, in striv- ing to attain a close resemblance to Ma poleon's son, she found difficulty with her hair. "The hair was wrong" she said; 1t was too red, ana, of course, too long. l tried at least twenty wigs None of them gave me the look of the Eagles son. He had the blonde hair of his mothers race. It was soft, abundant and golden. No wigs could copy it. And so, at last I brought myself to It. 1t is never easy for a woman to sacrifice her hair-and had my hair cut to the right fashion. Then came the question of toning it to Just the right shade of the Eagles hair, of which have a lock, faded now, but golden still. This was merely a question of the coiffeur's art The thing was done"
 All persons who have rich, auburn colored hair are found to be gifted with charming disposition. The most de- voted of husbands are said to be red haired; hence the reason a club of girls In Munich, members of which pledge themselves, rather than marry any but young men with red hair, to die old maids.
 The earliest mention in history of red hair is that of Esau. King David had hair of a rich auburn or reddy hue. The Turks are great admirers of hair, but the Persians abhor It. Out of every 135 English-spealSing people three are said to have red hair. Prince Albert. the consort of Queen Victoria, had hazel eyes and hair of dark auburn.
 It Is not often a red-haired hero is selected for a novel. but David Harum had hair of this color. The humorist, Artemus Ward. had vivid red hair. on