The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-06-29
THE RED HAIRED WOMAN
The Effect of Flaming Locks Upon
Feminine Temperament.


A correspondent asks if red-haired
women are more sensitive and emo
tlonal than other women, and if the
coior OF the hair is in any way in
creative OF temperament? The color
ihulcates a great deal more than is
generally believed. The first great
difterence is in the quality, fine
ness and texture OF the hair itself.
Investigations have proved that
plack hair is the cOarsest. and the
average number of hairs in the
mead OF brunette is about $4,000:
he req halrG,- an comes with
ABOUT 'o,OOO. then the brown with
aDout 100, ,OO0, and finally the
Slonde, who has about 100000
halrs. Red hair of the glorious
Titan hue is the most admired nv
poets and painters. Swinburne. in
Atalanta IN Calydon." lauds the
Golden maiden growth of unbound
hair"
put every color has its worshipers.
throughout the East, black hair is
the most admired. and has been so
lot ages. solomon in his Songs
proises all locks las black as the
iayen,' and the Romans were. ac-
corulng to Horace, of the same oin-
;on as the Jews: but the Greeks.
VINO set the standard for beauty
favored golden locks. thick. long
Shd curling. undulating with care
less grace as were those of Helen
Of Troy.
Whose Golden hair
Around her sunny face in clusters
hang"
ked or FURNISHED gcid-haired wo-
men have certainly shown them
selves sensitive, emotional and more
lhipuislVe than their dark or very
ialr "aired sisters. Queen Bess
win FER flaming red hair could be
SenerouS to a fault, but cross her.
ana she was her fathers daughters.
!mpIacable in her vengeance The
empress Eugene'S lovely golden
hair was the envy of the French
court, but her temper and interfer-
ence Ill affairs OF state cost NapoI-
con his throne, and France. Alsace
and Lorraine. Novelists and dra-
matlstS usually make strong, deter
mined characters black or red
halred, and to the weak, irresolute
ones they give blonde hair. as Dick
ems did to Dora in David Copper
ned, and this is no doubt the re-
su't p1 observation, experience and
character study.
son has yet been given to explain
the fact that blonde women are
more lrresolute, more easily sway
cd and are less distinguished in
the realms OF science, art and liter
azure than golden haired or the
plack-halred women, but I think
the fact of the generous difference
In the number of hairs on the head
OF each supplies us with the real
reason. The blonde woman's blood
supply to the hair roots must give
enough nutriment to feed and sus-
tain in full health 10000 hair
roots, whilst the black or golden
halred women only needs to feed
oo,oOO to 100000 hair roots. When
we consider that every hair is
separate living thing, having it's in
dlVldual home and roots, and re-
curing an adequate supply of food
from the blood, is is obvious that
mere Is a far greater strain and
drain upon the vitality of the
blonde than there is upon the dark
halred woman, which may explain
why she is usually depicted as lam
gushing, flighty and fanciful.
An old philosophic writer noted
that soft hair indicateth timidity
and harsh hair is a sign of bravery.
For behold the camel, the hare and
the lamb have soft hair, but the
lion and the wild boar have harsh
hair. The novelist who wishes to
describe woman timid to a degree
usually makes her a black or gold
haired, according to the fancy of
the writer. But it is as well for
matrimonially inclined men to re-
member that red-haired women,
good or bad, possess tempers.