Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-03
BLONDE HAIR AND DA..k.
Is Color Token of Certain Mental
Characteristics of Wearer?

Some curious statistics relating to haiy
have been collected by the school author
tiles of Lille, France. Thus. the auburn
haired boys are generally at the head OF
the recitation classes and the blonde
girls learn their lessons best. Auburn
boys and blonde lasseS come out highes;
as arithmeticians. But in composition
they are nowhere. The dark-haired
children of both sexes have the quality
of imagination and in their compositions
know how not to fatigue the attention
They have movement and originality. IL
short. they seem. as compared to the
auburns and blondes, born stylists. Now
that l think of it. Sarah Bernhard is, OF
was, authenticated, and Nine. Bartet
had light brown hair twenty-five years
ago-so light as to be almost fair.
should not call the late Nine. Jacques
Sierra (Croizette) in the heyday of hel
charms a blonde: But she had darkisf
shade of fair hair that looked like heavy
Sheeny floss silk, and the ruddinesS thai
one associates with auburn Nine. Sam
airy was also fair without being exactly
a blonde
l dare say the auburn boys and blonde
lasses in the Lille elementary schools art
of Flemish, that is to say phlegmatic
race Their brains do not grow at once
congested when they stand up to recite
and for that reason they keep the mas
terry of the vocal organs. In short they
continue to know what they are about
The dark children are probably of Celtic
that is to say, Gallo origin. The blood
comes with rush to their brains ant
they grow confused, splutter and breaf
down. If they could only be taught Il
remain silent for few moments they
would be all the better for this rush, as
the confusion would have passed away
tleavinS only stimulated mental organs
Goldsmith, who was dark, always began
by being confused in conversation
O'Connell wore a black wig, but his reaI
hair in youth was auburn, l recollec
very old people, who heard him plead
in his prime speak of it as such. HIS
readiness was wonderful. But perhaps
he might not have recited so well what
somebody else had written.
l have rarely heard a great French
orator recte. Grevy, the president of the
republic, was one of the few, and he
reached perfection in reciting Voltaire's
verses to Emile. Gambetta, in low
sweet voice recited sometimes passages
from his favorite poets. Theirs could
commit nothing to memory in the way OF
q poem in speech by another orator
He had himself too much to say to in
cumber his mind with the writing of 9TH
ers. Louis Blanc shone, however, in re-
citing declamatory passages from Charles
"a fair Jewish-loOking man, not unlike
the first Baron James De Rothschild-
beat them in defamation of the eccleSias-
teal school where they passed their
youth. Charles Blanc triumphed in bot1
masculine and feminine parts, and drew
tears from his reverend preceptors eye
as Andromaque. Louis was best as
Polyeucte. or the Cid. Imagine wee Louis
Blanc giving the illusion of that great
heroic warrior. Victor Hugo never
seemed greater than in reading some no
BILE work of his own. An old passport
given him in his 9th year speaks of him
as having auburn hair, long and remark
ably thick. | heard him recite the ITO be
or not to be" soliloquy as translated by
his son Francois. Did he not throw ex-
preston into it?
To come back to stage people. the two
Coquelins are fair. Mile Schneider, VINO
rather recited than sang in the operettas
of Offenbach was remarkably fair. Ii
may be that the late Queen Victoria
would have read her speeches less wei
had she been a brunette. Rachel is an
illustrious instance on the other side.
do not know whether her rival and sup
PLANTER Ristori should be classed among
the dark or fair actresses. When | made
her acquaintance, the early color of hei
hair and complexion had departed. She
had fair haired brother He used to
teach Italian, however, in a singing
school.