Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-02-21


- lEN His Offense carries its own punish
ment, for his name is destined to become kissing
and byword with beauty. He is to be pitied not
more because be has offended bpaHty than because
he is color-blind and dead to its charm. But II
worse punishment were required it would be apprO-
pirate to deliver him to the tender mercies OF
q regiment OF red headed Amazons.
However while Congress was on the subject OF
red hair it is regrettable that 1t did not pass bill
prohibiting limitations. Precisely all that gilt
ters s not gOd 50 good deal Of that which passes
for Titan nowadays is but cOTnscating counterfeit
which cheapens and discredits the real thing. Ii IL
more important to mans happiness that red hair be
real than for instance that butter be not OeOmarga
rine and Legislation might very well have included
crinal reform under the classification OF frauds ana
cheats.
No wonder the red headed girl is frequent sub
iect Of agitation. She WAS always agiating sub
iect and always will be. Red hair appeals to the
primitive as we'll as cultivated and aesthetic love Of
beauty, and that is Why she is perenDially and
eternally popular. Our penchant for her trans
cends history and is instructive. Before he ever
saw Eve, Adam had the inherent capacity TO ap-
preciate red hair. He admired 1t without knowing
IT, and when the lady appeared 1t must have been
gratifying TO him TO perceive that she had the right
kind which she had BY the consensus Of arts belief
The color Of the hair doubtless inspired the SER
pent also.
Whenever Eye,s daughters have happened to
possess il they have been fascinating Other shades
Of hair have their iniYidual and often rresigtiblo
lattractiOns black, brown, cheatnnt yellow; gold;
but DO shade save red II nniKsEnally and unexoep
tiOnably che mark Of interest and charm. Red hair
may be depended upon Co weave spell for any
man who will permit himself 20 gaze long upon Il.
Red hair is never . false alarm; that is to say,
when the hair itself is not false or falsely cOored
then II may be false token, and one Of the sort
which Congress should abOlieh. And any tint Of
red will do, provided it is real And this without
0rkn md ais
ers who are beautiful on their several accounts
with their several different kinds Of hair.
4 Which is the costliest building 10 Americaf
! Would you answer off hand, the New York State
Capitol at Albany Hardly says Leslie's Weekly.
q Your thoughts would turn more likely, to the ma
tionaI Capitol at Washington to the CongresaiOn
al Library. But the New York State Capitol cost
more than the national Capitol and the Library Ci
Congress together. The Empire State Capitol has
cost $24, 900, while the one at Washington, two
acres larger, cost only @l2 OOO and the Congress
sional Library only $7, 100000. The Empire State
Capitol cost as much the nation paid fer al Flor
ida and the Philippines combined And the deco
ration 81 this bnildiDg is Htill incOmpleteafteE
Il Ithirty-eight years Of constructing altering and
4 spending. Here's the second most amazing thing
Il about this Capitol. Unfinished, yet already more
time has been passed since the laying Of its corner
stone than Was required to bnid the great pyramid,
which wae completed In twenty years; more time
than was required TO build the Taj Mahal 81 India,
the most beautiful building In the world, which was
finished within seventeen years. Alter thirty eight
4 years 81 work all but dix months ia 1874, when
work ceased for lack Ol funds there are still more
busts more bAlustrades, beauties, to be added
to what William Henry Rusgell, the famous corres-
4 p0ndent of the London Times, called 1.-THE fneet
building Id America What has made this build
i Ing % costlyi Why kag itcost ~ much more chan
have other and larger public buildiDgsi The prin.
cipa cost, 81 c0nrse Was iot what's officially known
las construction, finishing nnd lnrniahinR. But
cnuatrnotionli in0lndoB the many Expensive changes
the aItsratiolg ald Iosto siOu1 and necessary re-
pairs. The architectural changes alone cost lor
\ tune. The original plan waa that Of Che Italian
Renaissance. This WIN nodded, after work was
we'll under way, 70 fhe RomaneeQne. Then, when
work had progressed under tho RomanesQue, the
Legislature directed return to The original plan.
The result ii what Il sknoWn as free Renaissance.
Now, though there is wealth CI imagination in ths
architectural features and while the carving and
cther decorations are truly wonderful, the whole
said To be "barharicn rather than rhomogeneoua
lin treatment and nplendoT.
II
Boss Cox, Of Ohio, sent Miss Roosevelt cut
rlnHs water pitcher as q wedding present. And WI