The Saint Paul globe., 1903-03-31

about every other woman sought to
gild her locks. But the reaction was
violent. The bleached head became a
blight, and even in the chorus it was
IroWned upon. Nowadays the girl
with designs upon the front row lets
her hair grow naturally, and if she
possesses red crown she fiuffs it out
consp1cuously and applies confidently
for place.
Stage Makes the Fashion.
For it is the stage that has made the
fashion, just as it makes many others.
1t came about with the almost stimuli
taneous success of two women stars
and the appearance in New York Of
a French vaudeville singer whose locks
were most brilliant red.
Up to this period decidedly red and
naturally red hair had not been deemed
a charm in the making of a heroine.
But now 1t created attention. Just as
the ScraWny girl of ten years ago has
become the willowy type that is the
correct thing today, so the red haired
woman is the acknowledged type of
beauty.
1T is fact" said a Broadway hair
dresser to a Sun reporter, "that the
fashion for red hair has a vogue at
present, but 1 doubt If it will be a last
ing one beyond, say, two seasons.
Whatever may be the artistic FASH
lon OF the moment, and no matter how
1t may bring money to our place, we
cannot help having our own ideas, and
we place fine golden hair first.
But red hair and the really golden
hair are almost equally scare, and the
reason we prefer the golden haired
woman Is undoubtedly that in our ex-
perience with her she is easily pleased,
gentle. and always beautiful, according
to the usual standards.
She Won't Listen to Reason.
'The red haired woman may be sub
tly fascinating and all that, but the
ha1rdresser is not apt to be impressed
with her charm of manner, for she is
always intensely in earnest as to the
exact angle at which she wishes her
hair. and what she wills she insists on
having done.
I'VE never try to reason with a red
haired woman as to what is the pre-
vallfng style or what she should have
in the way of arrangement. She al
ways knows her own mind thoroughly
and you cannot change it.
Other women, the brown haired and
the golden haired kind, will ask sug-
gestions, naturally, as to what is the
prevailing style, and will welcome sug-
geSt as to any new fad that may
be in vogue
Red hair is apt to be artistic. That
Is, 1t is fluffy and easily controlled. 1t
arranges itself. and even in a rain
storm it never hangs straight.
Women are coloring their hair to-
day more than they ever did before, but
they are not bleaching it, Every
brown coloring that is used has a tinge
of auburn in it, and some women in
sist on having the auburn predominate
for the reason that this touch of red
n licr1Nt >
prettfly, if it is not oVerdone.
Women who wish to have their hair
turned to the actual red shade are
many, but we do not encourage this
idea, for the unnatural red hair is ex-
tremely trying to most faces, and. ex-
cept upon the stage. under the calcium.
IL never can pass as natural growth.
Like Brown Tinged With Red.
The brown shades just touched with
red are, on the contrary, beautiful and
impossible to detect. Mrs Potter, Mrs.
Langtry and other first made this shade
OF hair fashionable just at the time
when the gold bleached hair was los
ing its novelty.
''The trouble in producing the color
of natural red is not in the hair itself,
but in the fact that with such hair the
skin is always transparent, the eye
laSheS and browS are an exact match,
and even the coloring matter of the
eyes is peculiar to this type.
We do a great deal of theatrical
work, and l can tell you in confidence
that in half dozen new theatrical
ventures for next season the leading
woman has chosen to have red hair
There will be a rage for red-haired
hero1nes next season, and no doubt
there will be many discoveries as to
the peculiar temperament that goes
with this complexion. 1 have heard it
said that red-haired women are fiery in