Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-04-26
Hlrsuie Color One q More Key to. Ays'
terry OF Personally.
MOST UNIQUE CLUB is ORGANIZED
Red Headed Women Of University Of
Nebraska, Have Started Something:
Had You Noticed That Many Ensi'
neers Are Blond Men?
(By Frederick J. Haskin.)

-- The question Is Sharply raised Dy tns
news of a banquet which was held this
year by unique organization in the
University Of Nebraska. 1t is known
as the Order Of the Golden Fleece, and
its memberships composed entirely Of
young women whose hair belongs to
one Of the many Shades vulgarly de-
scribed as red. According to authori-
tative reports the members are classi-
fed on the club rolls under the follow
ing color heading: Squash, carrot
pumpkin, orange, brick, scarlet, fam
lingo, maroon, copper, auburn, henna,
mahogany, magenta, sorrel' strawber-
ry, roam, russet, cerise, carnation, sal
mon, shrimp pink and pink. Lemon,
ginger, insipid brown, and chemicals OF
all kinds are barred. Prizes are award
ed at the annual events for. the bright
est flame of color, the great quantity
of hair. and that:of the most beautiful
shade. 80, r.
This organization is interesting and
perhaps alarming to the general pub;
lie as an example Of one more kind of
class feeling. It. is well known that
class feeling and the tendency to or,
ganize on q class basis are on the in
crease. We now have associations not
only of capital and labor, but also
mothers leagues, consumers leagues,
writer's leagues. There are leagues
based upon every possible role which
one may play in life, whether in busi-
ness, politics. society. marriage or
sport; but heretofore, so far as we can
learn by exhausting research, there has
been no effort to organize on basis Of
physical characteristics, if few Jolly
Fat Mems Clubs be excepted.
Another Red Menace.
This tendency to organize on basis
of hair color, therefore, is 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 international Or
der of Red Headed Women!
And this organizing of red-headed
women into clubs will undoubtedly in
tensify what You might call their hair
class-feeling. The orderof the Golden
Fleece will no doubt make a pretty
thorough study Of all the data bearing
upon red-headedness, and each mem
Der will come away from it's gatherings
with a clearer notion Of the special des-
tiny which her. flaming top has pre-
scribed for her.
There seems long to have been sort
of general agreement that red-headed
persons have peculiar characteristics.
It Is generally believed, for example,
that they have hot tempers. and strong
emotions generally. In the last centu-
ry simile in common use was easy
as making love to red-headed girl"
Since the rise Of the NietZsche- Shaw,
Mencken school .;of philosophy; which
holds that woman is a dangerous pred
atory animal bent in hunting nah
down and making a slave of, him, this
has been generally revised TO read
dangerous as making love to red
headed girl"
Whatever basis this saying may have
in the experience Of man, 1t is ample
evidence Of a general popular feeling
that red -headedness is a quality of
mind and temperament, as we'll as OF
the hair. For some reason, there is no
similar popular idea about other hair
colors, but. scientific research shows
that hair is great revealer of charac-
ter in an indirect way. That is, 1t
shows what race predominates in the
makeup Of the individual and there
fore what racial traits he may be ex-
pected 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
sort of 'sport-color. 1t does seem to
be generally associated with certain
emotional and nervous characteristics.
but these are peculiar to the reds OF all
races. That they are by no means nee
essarily disadvantageous is shown by
the great number Of successful red
headed men and the well-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
Irishmen who were as different racial
ly as an Italian and u Swede.
Race and Hair.
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 native
to the north. as for example the typical
prussian or Norwegian. The Alpines
are short stocky race with brown
hair and fiat heads inha biting east CEN
tral Europe, as for example Il typical
Swiss peasant. The Medterraneans