Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-03
Her Shrine Found in Africa and Legend
Illuminating the Age-long Controversy OUer the
Merits of Brunette and Blonde Beauty

tribe. Just as Adam preferred Eve tc
Lilith, On the other hand, the majority
OF men appear to be taking brunette
wives. for the latter type is growing more
numerous in the countries where races
are mixed. After all, VINO shall decide
whether Lillian Russell Is preferable to
Lima Cavalieriy
1t is mentioned as a curious fact by
Hayelock Ellis that man who has loved
a brunette woman will often transfer his
affections to blonde, but when once he
has experienced the ascendency of the
blonde type the brunette becomes abso-
lutely repugnant to him.
Blondness has always been a charac.
ter OF aristocracy in Europe. The late
Colonel Charles z. Woodruff, the noted
United States army authority on the eff
fects of tropical light on white men,
commenting on blonditude, says: 1.-THE
strange tendency of actresses to bleach
the hair has its origin in the admiration
for the blonde ruling Aryan aristocracy,
just as In ancient Greece.
THE devil and all his imps are almost
always pictured as brunettes," continues
Colonel Woodruff "as they are looked
upon as lower order OF celestial beings
Similarly the villain of the drama is gen.
orally brunette, while the hero and hero
Inc are more apt to be staged as bonds"
We have seen that there has generally
been a tendency to regard the blonde as
a finer type. Nevertheless, DIR. John II.
Kellogg and DIR. A. ]. Reid, at the recent
Race Betterment Congress at San Fran.
cisco, boldly declared that the ideal
American woman OF the future would be
a brunette, because that type has more
vitality and endurance, and Is especially
adapted to flourish under American con-
ditions OF life.
Now Lilith, the FIRST brunette. was a
wild, passionate, half-human creature,
while the blonde Eve seems to have been
more gentle, willy and feminine.
lAlith is spoken OF as the first wife of
Adam In the oldest rabbinical writings,
and the earliest Asiatic legends persis-
tently mention her. The Talmudists call
her Adams first wife. Although the
Bible does not give her this distinction,
II does mention her In Isaiah, chapter "a,
verse IA. The Hebrew word Lilith is
translated "screech OWE In our King
James version, the verse reading THE
screech owl also shall rest there and find
for herself a place OF rest" The trans
lators probably shrank from bringing
the strange Oriental myth into the Eng.
hsh Bible by using the word 'Y.ilith."
The existence of Lilith legend In Cen
trail Africa agrees with Hebrew myths
which describe the flight OF the first
brunette and her stepson Cain towards
Africa.
The expeditionary force 20 which DR..
Kennedy was attached marched directly
across from Nalrobi toward the enemy's
country over the Great Slave Road. This
road. which runs for a thousand miles
from the heart Of the African continent,
whitened with human skeletons and was
watered for centuries with the blood and
tears OF shackled slaves, 20 its terminus
at the great slave port of Mombassa, is
now a military road.
On turning the flank of the Juhi Hills,
the expedition turned from the slave road
to where, towering before them, thrust
into the sky the twin snow-capped peaks
OF Mount Kilimanjaro. over 1880 feet
high. Avoiding even the regular though
rarely trodden track that led through
the defile, and following a trail unmarked
on any chart, over a part Of the noun
tain never before trodden by a white
mans foot the expeditionary force ad-
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