Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — Judged by Their Hair. [ARTICLE]

Judged by Their Hair.

A hotel man claims to be able to read a; woman as accurately by her hair as anybody else can by her eyes, nose, mouth or other features: I start out in my reading of a woman by her hair, with the quite generally known and accepted principle that the finer the hair the gentler the birth, or the bettor, higher grade the family stock from which she came, and having thus determined whether she is of gentle or rude birth, I rely upon the amount of care which her hair shows to have had in order to obtain the key to her mode of life. The closer the ends of her hair cling together when unaffected by an artificial force, the more intellectuality does the owner possess. When the ends, and particulaily the body of -the hair show a tendency to curl it is an infallible sign that the owner has inherent grace and poetio ease of the body. The straighter and less yielding—though not necessarily harsh—the hair, the firmer and more positive is the woman’s nature. Treachery and jealousy hide beneath lusterless or deadblack hair nine cases out of ten. Feminine hair that may appear of the finest texture and be glossy almost to brilliancy when viewed at a little distance, but that on close examination is found to have a broken or split appearance—something quite common in ladies’ hair —may be depended on to a certainty as indicating a badly unbalanced character, a woman with an excess of especially queer notions. The lighter colored the hair the more sensitive and “touchy” the owner, except in rare cases, where her ladyship enjoys perfect health. Brown hair, whatever the shade is, is always the most pleasant and satisfactory shade of hair to have to do with across the hotel counter, and that’s the place to find out a woman’s nature.