The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-08-09
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able auaty called personality by rea-
son;.of etsie wit, their ease of man-
aer. Ia as$cia tion with their fellows, a
magnetis, inmate to them; or any of
many tdefinable personal char
acteristict others have red hair. And
TO one etr saw a red-haired man, or
woman cher, for that matter, who
did not live distinct quality called
personally. Does the red hair do it
Something does.
"a redhaired man always excites
my crvy,s the Man of the Monument
confessedjast night, "and a red-hair-
ed eirl-but what's the use to tell
everything?"
The person adorned with red head
Of any shade of red, golden, auburn,
Titan or pust plain' brick dust is bit
different. ut mary be fiery temper
and tart.tongue, but one can count
on something out Of the ordinary. At
least red-haired people are rarely
bores.
"A red-headed school boy stands
out above others. Before he has been
in school two days the name his moth
er sgave him is forgotten and hence
forth he is Red And Red soon be-
comes known. Did you ever hear of
redsheaded boy the whole school
didn't know? Ask man about
school mate of years ago and he will
say, James Blank-let me see-oh
YOU mean Red Blank, the boy with the
reddestr head in school,
1t is the same way after school and
college, they stand out in the world
Let a red-haired man come to town
and someone is soon asking who that
red-headed chap is.
There is no feminine name to COR
respond to Red and red-haired girls
are simply red haired and distinctive
without being designated so by name
OF course, Redette might do but girls
don't take kindly to such nicknames.
Then frequently, when boy would
be simply red-headed, girl is au-
burn haired, golden haired, Titan
haired, rarely just plain red Poets
have treated the subject of red-haired
girls rather extensively. In fact, it
seems to be one of those things that
prey on their minds. Almost any
versifior can write sonnet on the
CLINT of golden sunshine in her hair
or 'her tresses of trailing gold or
perhaps locks lie flame from Yes
ta's altar 1t all depends on how
far gone the poor chap is when he sits
down to indite fourteen lines of senti-
mental sonnets are still written with
quill pen.. Well have to look into
that matter before writing any. Some
of 'em read like they had been written
with goose quill.
"Will!am Butler Yeats has even
gone so farSas to make the fairies
red-headed. In his The Land of
Hearts Desire he takeks pains to de-
scribe the Fairy Child as beautiful
child with red{ hair And if red.
headed fairies. Ano doubt red-headed
angels. Thr1 tow nice henna head
will look on some of us grizzled old
chaps. There are those who insist
that all who have red hair are not an
gelic. Since Yeats said the fairies
had red hair, it probably explains why
Titania led Oberon such henpecked
life, for the queen of the fairies GER
tainly had red-headed disposition.
"But for all that, red hair is mag
| netic. Probably men will suffer more
from red-headcd women than from
any other sort. A few cynics say they
do. Xantippe is said to have been
red-haired but Socrates took her
storming and ecolding without COM
plant. On second thought, maybe
Xantippe wasn't red-headed after all,
for the shade never seems to show up
in her restaurant keeping descend
| ants.
Anyway, the world is friend OF
a red-headed man. The world doesn't
tread on a red-headed mans toes but
the world likes him, nevertheless.
And poets will continue to pen verses
to 'milady with the red.gold hair
TIL