The Washington times., 1918-08-29
WANTED-A StenOgrapher
With Red Hair
She Must Not Use Perfumery


That is the substance of advertisement inserted by
well known firm in the newspapers of Sioux City The
advertisement reads
"Wanted-A red-haired stenographer; one who does
not use perfume"
We print this advertisement conspicuously because it
is interesting and will be discussed by our readers
The demands for "no perfume and for red hair are
well worthy of analysis and perhaps praise.
Perfumery is an abomnaton. If women including
senographers could be taught that the world would move
up one peg instantly.
Zulu ladies rub themselves from top to toe with suet
(sheep fat they put in their ha-whte chunks of it
and when turns rancid they like better than Their
husbands, delighted, exclaim: "Bonomakash anaga."
But we of this free land not zulus, and what is
saddes the peumeres that assa very much worse
than suet-eVen rancid.
Screaming she entered But she comes in with perfume
that screams and does not suspect that majority would
rather have her actually screaming than spreading that
dreadful odor about
There brushes past you big yellow stout person She
is full of hatpns laced pinched heeled ovefedful
Of defects But you could stand all that-it hurts HER.
not you.
But added to all the she scaters around hid
eous perfume reminds you of nightmare in which you
visited the Sultans harem She sits down side of
YOU another stout woman with perfume even worse sits
the other side Those two perfumes fight each other
The firm away out in Sioux City is wise to shut out
perfumes Better have stenographer with bells her
to strike the hours than with abominable perfumery
They always think the peumery fine and no man has
the courage tell them the uhoutside of anonymous
editorial That's the pity of it.
The redhair clause has interesting scientific posi-
hlities
i What is the exact meaning Of red hair? . |
Some great men-very great-were red haired. Napo
Icons hair reddish Caesars, too, and Thomas JEFF
ferson's.
Then our primitive ancestors had red hair their
heads also their and faces, and pretty much all
over
When the mammoth felt ntheaded spear pierce his
skin, he redhaired, twolegged animal dodge out of
sight.
Our strong men and those that retain some
Of the primitive qualities the power of the original animal
Is red hair proof of great vitality of the survival of the
ancient force? Maybe.
About women with red hair we have read little and
about stenographers with red hair nothing at all.
The great Queen Elizabeth had red har-maybe she
dyed it.
There MUST be superior quality in red hair for
keenes at detecting superiority and they are
victims Of frequent dhair manas Every little while they
all begin to redhair dye. Titan and other artists
encouraged it. They have known that red hair meant
a fine mental quality of some kind.
Red hair is much the coarsest har-perhaps because
is primitive The dhared has square inch
of scalp only about half many hairs the golden haired
woman But who about the NUMBER OF HAIRS?
Are red-haired women more loyal than others? What
reader answer?
Are redhaired women honest, they harder
workers than others? What reader will answer?
Please read the editorial below