Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-06-09
women RED HEADS
FORM SOCIETY
Alarming P0ss .bi|ties Are Pre-
Sented by ine Greer OF The
Go.te1 Fleece.
PRIZE FOR BRIGHTEST HUE
Members Are LISTED in the Club Rolls
Under % Class fications Covering
the Various Shades of Red
Hair-To Study Data.

Hair-lo STUDY Data.
WaShington. What does the color,
abundance and texture of your hair
reveal regarding your character and
ability?
The question is raised sharply by
the news of a banquet which was held
this year by an unuSual organization
in the University of Nebraska. 1t is
known as the Order of Golden Fleece
and its membership is composed only
of young women whose hair belongs
~ one Of the many shades yulgarly
described as red. According to uu-
thUritntive reports the members are
classified on. the clab rolls under the
following color headings: Squash. car
rot, pumpkin, orange, brick, scarlet
famingO, maroon. copper. auburn,
hennn, mahogany. magrnla, Soric'.
strawberry, roam. ruSSel. crriSr, car
nation, salmon shrimp pink and pink.
Lemon, ginger, i,>ipid brown and
chemicals of all kinds are barred.
Prizes are awarded at the annual
the greatest quantity Of hair and that
of the most beautiful shade.
One More Kind of Glass Feeling.
This organization is interesting and
perhaps alarming to the general public
AS an example of one more kind of
class feeling. 1t is we'll known thai
class feeling and the tendency to ol:
ganize on class basis are on the i'll
crease. We now have associations not
only OF capital and labor, but ais"
mothers leagues, parents leagues, CON
SumcrS' leagues, writer's leagues.
There are leagues based on every pos
sible role which one may play in life,
whether in business. politics, society,
marriage or sport; but heretofore, so
far AS we can learn by exhaustive re-
search, there has been no effort to or
gnniZe on basis of physical charac-
teriStcs. if few jolly Fat Mems clubs
be excepted.
The tendency to organize on basis
of hair color, therefore, is a thing of
great and alarming possibilities, eSpe-
cially if red-headed women take the
lead in the matter Imagine if you
can an inSurrection of the Inerna-
tional Order of Red-lIeaded Women.
And this organization of red-headed
women into clubs will undoubtedly in
tensify what you might call the hair
claSS-feeling. The Order of the
Golden Fleece will no doubt make Il
,hn nd, Of ,n ln I,tn
bearing on redheadednesS, and each
person will come away from its gath
eringS with a clearer notion of the Spr-
cial destiny which her flaming top has
prescribed for her.
That Old Saying, Y'know.
There seems long to have been a
sort of general agreement that red
headed persons have peculiar charac-
terstics. 1t is generally believed, for
example, that they have hot tempers
and strong emotions generally. In the
last century simile in common use
was easy as making love to Il red
headed girl" Since the rise of
the NetZsche- Shaw Mencken school of
philosophy, which holds that woman is
dangerous predatory animal, bent on
hunting man down and making
slave of him, this generally has been
revised to read dangerous as making
love to a red-headed girl
Whatever basis this saying may have
I'm the experience of man, it is ample
evidence of general popular feeling
that red-headedneSS is quality of the
mind and temperament as we'll as of
the hair For some reason, there is
no similar popular idea regarding
other hair colOrs, but scientific re-
search shows that hair IS Il great re-
vealer of character in an indirect way.
That is, 1t shows what race predom-
mates in the makeup of the indivd-
may be expected to have.
This, it appears, is less true of the
red-headed than of either blondes or
brunettes. Red-headednesS occurs in
both blonde and brunette races, as Il
sort Of sport-color. 1t does seem to
emotional and nervous characteristics,
but these are peculiar to the reds of
all races That they are by no means
necessarily disadvantageous Is shown
by the great number of successful red
headed men and the we'll known popu-
larity of red-headed women.
But black hair or blonde hair is dis
tinctly indicative of race, and it IS only
by such physical characteristics that
race may be detected these days. Race
now conforms to national boundaries
very little. 1t would be easy to find
an Irishman and German who were
Of exactly the same racial type, and
two Irshmen who were as different
racially as an Italian and a Swede.
Characteristics OF Race.
There are three principal races in
Europe, according to the anthropOlo-
gists-the Nordic the Alpine and the
Mediterranean. The Nordics are the
tall blonde men with long heads ma
tive to the north, as for example the
typical Prussian or Norwegian. The
Alpines are short, stocky race with
brown hair and fiat heads inhabiting
east central. Europe, as for example a
typical Swiss peasant. The Mediter-
raneans are short. dark long-heaied