Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-01-15
She Says

Can blonde be vamp?" That
was the. headline stretched across the
entire top Of Sunday paper page,
Phe scene was in railroad car.
The. woman who vas reading the
paper was holding it way Mp high.
1t was an easy matter for those be-
hind her to read the glazing head
lines and some Of the smaller heads.
The woman who was holding the
paper and who was so interested
was a made" blonde. Her hair
was light but one could tell that it
was not so intended by nature. Her
eye brows were dark and her skin
was dark-the kind that goes with
dark hair. Then too, close scrutiny
revealed that her hair was dark near
the roots. She was much be-jeweled.
powdered and all that sort of thing.
Across the aisle and one seat back
was a young woman holding a, tiny
baby The second woman was a
real blonde. There was no doubt
about that. Her hair was fine and
golden. True. it did sort of straggle
around her ears and refused to stay
put unless pushed back behind her
ears-and a young woman is weary
and careless enough when she can
Dear that tucked-back feeling. Her
SKIN was fair and her eyes were very
Diue. They matched the socks tina.
the baby wore and insisted unon
puiilng on. The baby was wriggling
and making things lively generally
ior the blonde mother. But the b. m.
III spite OF this GRAINED her neck and
appeared very much interested in
the lifted Sunday paper across the
aisle. Baby squirmed and demanded
attention but mother unconsciously
soothed him and continued reading
The parallel thoughts of the "made"
Dionoe and the real" blonde upon
the subject Can a blonde be q
Vamp: would doubtless make most
interesting human nature study.
He's so polite. Accent on the 81
And he says he gets it from his en-
Vironment. So should call that
credit to his environment. 7 wou,dn,t
believe that he was so polite unt;I
ne told me something that hammered
"A lew moons ago while walking
along Water street. he slipped and
Tell down. En- route to his undesir-
able location he struck a suitcase
Wnlch a woman was carving and
knocked 1t from her hand. He said
And before I had landed on the
ground in my fall had properlv
begged that woman's pardon"
have you ever noticed that when
ever people become radicals thew
announce it to the world by chang
Ing their style Of hair? Hence we
nave short-haired women and long
haired men. mostly too lazy to have
any regular occupation, strolline IN
ana down the earth advocating free
love and cubist embroidery, bolshe-
Vlk government principles and vers
libre, and presenting a general an
pearance Of having got out of bed
just in time to catch a few clothes
and the train.
There is vast difference between
radicals and liberals. There have
always been two great classes Of
thinkers. liberals and conservatives.
both of which are justly entitled to
claim their share in the promotion
OF the worlds progress. Radicals
are the disaffected mortals who are
too indolent to think along either of
the well-deflned paths. They take
refuge in scorning everything that
they cannot or do not understand
and in substituting a fad Of their
own which must be bizarre in order
to attract attention. They fool a
large part Of the public and often
fool themselves into really believing
what they profess.
saw a radical couple with their