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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1907)
18 , PITT the man who lives in the year Perkine. Mis Katharine Coolidse. Mint li II W ' 1 'C' SB raj SFtk U ' 2607. or thereafter. HI, knowledge Ruth Iawrenee. ln Cornelia Thayer. I I WW . i - " V. ' &?3Ti!lgfi&Z KS FJC? . .... xem.n.ne neauty will he conflned MI,S Mary Josephine Amory, Miss Emily , If f , T ' , "-J W I TU fTTW5 exclusively to the brunette. Bacon, Miss Constance Bacon, Miss !J fc. PWZ C" iP Speak to h m of a . blonde" and he will Eleanor Sears. MI Lesl.e Bradley, Miss 'h , Jr yMM rSl 1 '"aMl VjK with a knowledge of antiquity, he will recall the golden haired woman as some thing that passed out of existence "cen turies before, and rated with the dodo. . auk or other extinct animals. This proRnostication of a pathetic con dition of the future is based on the recent statement of Professor 7. E. Woodruff. of Plattsburg, an erudite student, who see necessity to sadden the new year with a public avowal that blondes were becoming extinct. "In 600 years," he said, "the last blonde will only be memory, and there Is no chance that the typo will repeat itwlf." The professor Is perhaps right that real blondes are becoming (ewer, but the trouble is to tell which are the blondes of nature andi which are those of art. The educated peroxide bottle does Its beautifying work so skillfully that no on but a jealous woman can with cer tainty tell the real from the Imitation. if you look at the chorus of the bur- losfius and light operas, the prediction of .the professor Appears humorous. for e-very woman on the Bt&se Is a Klorlous blonde, but on the stage they have to be, for as one talented actress, herself a real blonde, puts it: "If they didn't, have the cute golden haired little things in the chorus the men above 50 years touldn't be dragged to the theater." Six hundred years! f Is not the time too short to wipe out the blonde? Trusting to unaided mem ory. It would seem that Tllllan Russell had been with us that loner, or pretty-nearly,- and she is still with us, still young, her beauty undimmed, and her mass of hair Just as perfectly golden as - when Ions; ago she first appeared at Tony rastor's, and laid the foundation of hep popularity. And Lillian's beauty Is not all on the stage. The picture la Just as flawless oft the boards. This prima donna Is a perfect argument against the theory that blonde 'bosuty Is short-lived. In compari son to the brunette pulchritude. . Madame Gadskl holds up the standard of blonde attractiveness at the Metropoli tan Opera House. Her career has not bad half the length of that of Miss Rue Sell, but she Is a nne specimen of the best type of German blonde. Hffie Shannon is not a new-comer on the boards, but she Is Just as perfect a blonde as in the old days when with Frlti Williams in thejuvenile roles, she - was the talented In senile of Daniel Froh man's magnificent Lyceum heater Com pany, Little Delia Fox got th credit of being a blonde, but suspicions have always existed that perhaps her locks were not always the exact shade which nature in tended them to be. . No aiich doubt exists on the subject of Vli-a-lnla Harned. This superb crea ture, an Irish blonde, the wife of E. H. RotWn, has always ranked as one of the prime beauties, among those whose liaJr had been un-klnaed into golden. Nor has any critic dared to insinuate that May Irwin, the rollicking buxom Queen of the coon song did not exploit herself In her own naturml locks. Perhaps ft would have been a danger- ous proceeding lo impugn May's frizzles. The bis lady who made "Hot Time In the Old Town Tonlfcht a Kong of National fame looks as If she migrht have a good punch in ither hand for the man who would dare charge that in her case things are not really what they seem. Paula Bdwardo and Loliine Dresser are other excellent examples of the type that will see Its finish 600 years hence. Society has Its share as well as -the stage, though It must be admitted that the number 'Is growing less. In New Tork one of the most boasted, "blondes Is Mrs. Alfred Vuiderbllt. who' was Miss Elsie fYench. Miss Marie B'Acbsta, the handsome sister of Mrs. Philip Iydlff, la usually spoken of as a b)q(id. because she Is much lighter than her sisters, but as a matter of fact, she can hardly he said to represent the per- feet type- 1 . One of Nwport'j younger queens, the beautiful Mrs. Edward Moore Robinson, of Philadelphia, undoubtedly owes her reputation for beauty to a wonderful bead of blonde hair, which Is always faultlessly marcelled. Evelyn Howell is another noted Quaker City blortde. Jlrlstoeratle Bostort society number many blondes, the frequency of the type Feeminy to increase as one get North. Amonsr the better known are: ConntcH dfl Buslnl. Mrs. Oscar Taslgri. Sin. John Xa Br.mnvr. Mrs. James ii- -- oiuigis ana juiss uorotny jHjfNjf Jtf' ''PfKJ - J V M ''vsi.Jvim ' 9 Even those who hold that Professor p"' flZMZZvidf " ZZSsZifc&Y it ' ' Woodruff is mistaken in predicting the JfC- ' -7 ; jftT ' Jt V finish of the blonde, must admit that lJc . JW ft 1 some of the things he eays are borne " ' 'f VWZ Ss ftB I ' J?' j? . out by the faets. . . -Z S ff JV?' - M ,' is more ephemeral than the brunette. 'f (J I flT ' XfffJfll Tf SSffifAll 4& " -ltLA tL Miss Rue!l has kept her perfect ap- ' WiJ '0mMMM V V Sf pearanee marvelously. it is true. and c- ' ' looks as well now as she did two de- cades ago, but it must be remembered that he is a mistress in the art of re maining; beautiful, and has made a most exhaustive study of that science. What she has done to not possible to the average woman unconnected with the stave or society. Take a blonde and a brunette in the ordinary walks, of life, who make no special effort to preserve their charms. and. It will be found that Ions after the blonde has passed into the sere and yel- low. the brunette will still be in her nrth. There In Mmething about the blonde type that demands a perfect skin as an accompaniment. Unless the cheeks are rosy red, the eye exquisite blue, and the whole completion ' that of freshness and creamy softness, the blonde hair is a dls- ngurement, not a charm. With the brunette the result is dif ferent. A mass of mftgnlAcent black hair has a beauty not to be denied, a beauty that has its effect, no matter what the re mainder of the appearance may be. Th history of the world shows spat dark women have had a greater per manent attraction for the other sex. and have fl;urea more largely in those events that influenced history. In a sense, nearly every woman is a born blonde. The hair of the Infant is usually white, the towhead shape, but it Sr.du.lly du-kens. This change has given rise to the very disrespectful theory that when the mind Is infantile the hair la blonde, but with dsvnloplns; Inteltoct comes the darker shade. Those ladles who never emerge from the blond state are supposed by this line of reasoning; to remain children In point of brain. Perish the thought: X thousand blondes' who have been relarnlns- beauties rise -to contradict this contemptible libel. An answering; chorus from the Mondes demands to know why It la that women only strive to dye their hair so aa to set the ll-hter shades, and that a blonde la always so well content that she never seeks to alter her natural eolor into nomsthlnc darker. Blond oalr is the mars, of tha MorLo. THE .TODAY OliEGOmy. PORTUKD. JANUARV 9?, MM. just as surely as the dark shade is the sign of the South. It ts as though the hot un that pours down on Italy. Spain and the entire round of the tropics burns the hair into black- lttsg and the skin to the olive shades. In the North the sun burns leas fiercely, and we have the blonde of Germany, of Denmark, of Ireland, of Scotland, of Does Professor Woodruff expect to see all that altered? The darK-haired nations are much more turbulent, more war-like. This would argue that their term of life would be shorter than those of the northland. Those countries where blondea are rarest, Italy and Spain, for example, are 1 Some Homely The k iloiopker of Hotxville II OAXVILLB. Or..- J nil. 14. To the Editor.) Shakespeare says all things come to him who waits, and I hope to goodness frracloua that them derned fools that has been a-wantln' of cold weather and snow le satisfied. I don't see why people can't be contented with the weather as it cornea, and not be a-wiahin' for somethln' else that we ain't got, and thus be a-temptin' Providence to do somethln' desperate , to show them where they are at. 1 The general run of WllanieLta "Valley climate suits me exactly. When we 8"t our Fall work done, then along comes the rain and wets things up for another sea son. X get to rest while Nature's a-restln and the rain's a-doln' Its work. Then when Spring comes the rain lets up and me and Mother Nature sets tn and does our part- There ain't nothln 1 enjoy better than to set by the fire with my plp handy and a. pan of red-cheek pip. plna near me. while I listen to the rain aomln' down so easy and g-entle like. far behind the nations of the North in material prosperity. In durable govern- and In .11 lines of proerensive- ness. Reflections on the Civet Hit Viewt An Norma and Abnormal Everything's all rlaht then, and when X clo have to go out to chore around, my gum boots keeps my feet dry and a little warm rain don't hurt: me a mite. . But there's lots of people as has been a-fclckin' like blue blazes all Kail. They've been a-tellin' of the sleigh rides they had back East, where they come from, and how the thermometer went way down below sero and froze all the potatoes in the cellar, and how nice It all was, m that now they'd sot out here, where It didn't snow and they wan tlrod and elck of the wet weather and the mud. Well I guess they've got what they was a-hankerin for, but what I don't like about It Is that us poor fellers as likes the genuine- old Oregon sun and rain has to suffer along with 'em. Shakespeare says hi fry repeats Itself, a ndthats true as preach in'. Once, way back. In Bible times, when the Israelites wai a-comln' up out of Egypt, they got to jrrowUn' over what the Lord was a-feedtn 'cm on. which was the Is the blonde to pass? I-ot us hope not. If for ro other rea son than because of the blow It would give the stage manager, if In arranging his stage pictures, he could not count on the beauty of contrast that comes from playing his brunettes against his blondea In the dazzling: evolution of the march and dance. Cold Weather Weather in Weitern Oregon very best thins: for "em If they'd only knowed It. But they kept on a-klchln until he got tired of hcarin' 'eta toll about It. So he up and sent "cm a lot of quails and let em stuff their fool selves to their hearts' content, which they wasn't long In doln'. The consequences was they got good and sick, and there was more chol ery Infantum In that camp than the world has ever seen in one place since. A. lot of 'em died and them as got well was glad enough to "let the Lord do the pro- vidln' In his own way. "Well, now, that' Just the way I look at this here cold s-pell. It ain't what the Lord laid out for Ore- gon by no means. It's just the tail end of a Kansas blizxard switched off this way. There ain't no better climate anywhere In the world than we have right here In the "Willamette Valley if it's let alone. Lit so many of them arol-deraed Kant erners have come out here and settled down durln' the last three or four years, and when they've " got everything com fortable about em, so's they can live like white folk oujcht to, then they ain't got nothln else to do but tell about "back. East and "back East," and then some more "back East." until Tin tired llstenin . They know we've got "back Kart beat all holler, but they've got so used to kickin' back there to keep from freezln' that they can't quit, and when they can t find anything else to howl about they begin on the weather. Every time there comes a little sprinkle of rain they wish it was snow, and they can't step out doors without gettin' into the "Well. I'd like to know which Is the worst, to step down onto a little mud that has got a solid founda tion to It ltke Oregon mud has, or to step onto a snowbank and then sink down to the waist, like they do "back Bast." As I was a-sayln , all this .origin for the fieshpots of Egypt hna brought on this hero snow and freeze, just to ?how "em what they re askln for I was down to town the other day and some of 'em way sore throats to pa. v and suck in I cycles. a-goln around with em for eat in snow I didn't feel sorry for 'cm one bit. There 11 be lots or Sick ness on account of this spell, for we ain't used to it. hut I hope them as has brought It on themselves will Rt their Just de- sen?. I ain't feelin' verv well: my rheumatiz always comes on Just as sure as we have a. cold snap, and the fireplace takes so much wood to keep the house comfortable that It keeps me a-cuttin and a-spllttln' most of the time. Hanner she says she Kinder likes the cold, so I let her go to the barn and see to the mllkln' and feedin' of the calve?. She's been a-lookin after the sheep some, too. Cor my less kinder plvw out when I get to wal lerln" in the snow. And then, too, I believe in lettin' them as lias been a-prayln' for this blcssln' enjoy It to tn fullest extent. s Hun ri it and tn li ti ri tt good set-to ov lettin' the dog stay In the house. Shep'e kinder like me. he's p'intcdly ajrMn any new-fangled. notion the weather. Whiti Hanner seen it a-snowln' h made a bed for him tn the woodshed, but when bedtime come and I wont to turn him out he looked at me so pitiful that I let him stay irt. Now. It happened that Becky Ann had one of them there fancy white Limburgor lace sofa pillows on the lounge, and Shep. lay down onto It. Well, the nest morn in" it was somewhat warm er Indoors than out when them w nen seen that pillar, BecKy Ann m rlslit in for Hckln' Shep. and Hanner she pitched into me. but I says. &.yjs X. Po dog or mine shaJl be turned out In such on via t- ural weather as this, and Shep stays In the house, pillar or no pillar. You've been a-wan tin cold apell. and you've sot It, 'and you must abide by the co nae- quences." It ain't often that I set myself up aaainst Hanner, but when X do I mean 'business. Don't be discouraged, Mr. Editor. The righteous will prevail in the end, and oon me and you will be baakln In the , balmy air of Oregon, am it was intended to be. Tours truly, OBADIAH EVERAT OLDWAT. IV S. Sammy. Beoky Ann and her beau and a lot more are a-alidln down the hill back or the Darn, on a plank, and a-yellln' and laughlu' to beat chickens goW ta roost. Hanner's Rone out to watch 'em. The fools ain't all dead yet. O. R. O. History in Spain D IT RING a visit to Granada I-conard Williams visited a school conducted upon a most original plan, where spelling beoomos gymnastics and geo- frraphy ;i. veritable pastime. He d Hcrlben.lt as follows: . We were conducted arrows the rus- tie bridge into a kind of play? round. I say a kind of playground, because it proved to be a Bclioolrooin. with stone benches raised alung- one side, and on the benches st,nie 0). 6,) j f tt f e people learning to count by moans of nine pins and block of wood. Tile ml. Idle of the space before the benehi.s was not level, but depressed Into insular liollows and raised in slight eminences. "H ore," excliLimcfl the padrf. have tt snap of Spain. with all tm mountains anil all Its valleyR." So saying, ho approached the seated rows upon the benches and called. "Antoniot Torres!" darted an eascr looking little) boy and pulled off his cap. Another summons fro.m the padre. This time Alberto Vecra. rose. " ' V " ' . Antonio, pro to Barcelona." Antonio, who, as far as I could Rather, was somewhere in the moun tains of Leon, darted across country. ple.nted his foot upon the hauirhty cits; of the ReretijEruers. and beamed at us. "Antonio, where are you now?" "In Barcelona." "Where Is Barcelona?" "In Catnlonlar" "What Is there f t Barcelonar 'iV university, a bishop, and half minion Inhabitants." What else?" "It Is a seaport, and sends out wool, ens and olivos." "Now go to Madrid." The scampering: was repeated. "Whre nro you now?' 'Jn Now Oastile. in the capital of th kingdom." "What docs it producer "Nothing1." A sharp If not tinmritf rebuke to the court of the Hapsburgi and Bourbons. , "Now both of you po to Portugal. ' Off went the bold excutsionlst, hatid in hand. "Yon have prone too- fee. You ari standing- In the sea," a.ni the pardn rpdecmd tae drowning youngsters from the ocean. Next was a npllinff Imsod. For this the scholars utilfzA a Kind of blh. x tending both before and behind their bodies, with a hole for the head, a. letter on the chest, and a numeral Irt th small of the back. Thun n tences nnd words arrangf; and disar range and rearrange themselven wit winced alacrity. Each letter and earl number wears a nmtlinx and expectant face- Youth's Oompanion. After a Frosty Mgrht. Frank W. Gunsaulus In Chicago Trlnun. Who crrnft unheard with the wind's hoa.z-4t try In twilight time? Xoiselp.ii lilinseir where nil thing" f'. Ho comen apace- whr the Roldnrrv1 Hath fded awny and ceased to nod With tli- Autumn bro that looted the rertC And crispy apples overload. In twilight lime. Who traIn unH'pn whre the maple leave. In twIMKht tlmr. Have drirtrd yellow beneath the eaves Of a crumbling house utters once thert stirred II art-dreania of youth to muic heard ? who trample tlio nim'--lfarK r-tl "Wet In the m t rm m 1 t' w muddy lc-5. In twilight time.' t nr. Ah. the yefs daytim in Rrowipj lain. "Tia twiUsbt T Ime. "Tin Winter comoth, nor doth he wait Till the sheaves are thrcstied or the tnr$ fade; O'er sren of wheat are "hi pathways made. And y.-u l I t tml. It yovi ,rch in th arly - mom, HiB unowwhlte hair on tu grasa and thorn In twilight time. Thr Claimant. Washington ( U- C ) Btar. I'm 1 wonderlul man you ar meeting mjr kind Where'er von may hapoen to turn : I'm worthy It isn't surprising to nnd I never xct quite -wh&t I em. WhPre'r there's a wondrous discovery mad I jpeuk-'tis a upccch well rcbeanrrd And .emerge once again from oblivion' Bp It poetry, wMenc, mechanics or nf Or a brand new political orei!, That plays In affairs the most prominent part. My talents are stilt tn the lend. It Is strange, you will Bar, how they all fA away, These clever Ideas I've nursed. Y enoUKh to he s.ble t How that tbought of