Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — Color of the Hair. [ARTICLE]

Color of the Hair.

Between men’s pursuits and the color of their hair there is a direct relation, we are told. An unusual proportion of men with dark, straight hair enter the ministry; redwhiskered men are apt to be given to spotting and horseflesh, while the tall, vigorous blonde men, lineal descendants of the vikings, still con tribute a large contingent to our travelers and emigrants. Birds and insects have the best of us here; their outside covering may be changed by diet; but man remains what nature made him to the last. Suppose for a moment that a protective color, like that which obtains in th fields, woods and hedgerows, ruled in the world of men, what an amazing change would ensue in the out ward appearance of affairs! If a rogue could but at will assume the perfect guise of an honest man, and the gilded wasps of society appear as mason or honey bees, or were saints and sinners alike compelled to wear their own unmistakable livery, what a changed world would this of ours be! But no such world is possible. We have to be content with a medley of sober realities, where, though “white spiders” generally come to grief, the confidence trick still flourishes, and “men are mostly fools.”