The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-21

What does the color, abundance
and texture Of your hair reveal con-
corning your character and abil-
ity:
The question is sharply raised by
the news of q banquet which was
held this year by an unique organ
ization in the University OF Ne
braska. 1t is known as the Order
Of the Golden Fleece. and its MEM
bership is composed entirely OF
young women whose hair belongs
TO one Of the many shades vulgarly
described as red. According to au-
thoritative reports the members are
classified on the club rolls I'M
der the following color heading:
Squash. carrot, pumpkin. orange.
brick, scarlet, flamingo, maroon.
copper. auburn. henna, mahogany.
magenta, sorrel, strawberry, roam,
russell, cerise, carnation. salmon,
shrimp pink. and pink. Lemon.
ginger. insipid brown, and chemi-
calls of all kinds are barred. Prizes
are awarded at the annual events
for the brightest fame Of color, the
greatest quantity Of hair and that
OF the most beautiful shade.
This organization is interesting
and perhaps alarming to the gen.
eral public as an example OF one
more kind of class feeling. 1t Is
we'll known that class feeling and
the tendency to organize on a class
basis are on the increase We now
have associations not only on cap
ital and labor, but also mothers
leagues, parents leagues, consum-
ers' leagues, writer's leagues. There
are leagues based upon 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 research. there has
been no effort to organize on a ba-
sis Of physical characteristics, il a
few jolly Fat Mems clubs be e1-
cepted.
Another Red Menace.
This tendency to organize On a
basis of hair color, therefore. is a
thing Of great and alarming posi-
bilities, especially il red-headed
women take the lead in the matter
Imagine il you can an instruction
Of the International Order Of Red
Headed Women!
And this organizing of red-head-
ed women into clubs will undoubt-
| cd nj Gil no iOh
the hair class-feeling. The Order
of the Golden Fleece will no doubt
make a pretty thorough stuey Of
all the data bearing upon red-head-
edness and each member will come
away from its gatherings with a
clearer notion Of the special des-
tiny which her flaming top, has
prescribed for her.
There seems long to have been
a sort of general agreement that
ed-headed persons have peculiar
characteristics. 1t is generally be-
lieved, for example. that they have
hot tempers. and strong emotions
| generally. In the last century a
smile in common use was "easy as
4 making love to a red-headed girl.
Since the rise Of the Eietzche-
Shaw-Mencken school OF philoso-
ply. which holds that woman is a
dangerous predatory animal bent in
hunting man, down and making a
slave of him. this has been gen.
orally revised to read dangerous
as making love to a red-headed
girl"
Whatever basis this saying may
have in the experience of man, il
is ample evidence of a general pop.
ular feeling that red-headedness Is
a quality of the mind and tempera.
ment as well as of the hair. Fol
some reason, there is no similar
popular idea about other hair col.
ors, but scientific research shows
that hair is q great revealer Of
character in an indirect way. Thai
is. it shows what race predomin.
ates in the makeup of the individ
ual, and therefore what racial trait.
he may be expected to have.
This. it appears, is less true o.
the red-headed than of either
blondes or brunettes. Red-headed
ness occurs in both blondes anG
brunette races, as a sort of sport
color. It does seem to be general
ly associated with certain emotion