Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1907 — NEW YORK CITY OF BLONDES. [ARTICLE]

NEW YORK CITY OF BLONDES.

Lemon-Hind Tre»«e« Appear as tfcw Traveler Nears the Metropolis. “I can always tell when I am getting in to New York by the way the blondes begin to thicken,” said the traveling man. “When I am away out in the country districts, visiting the small towns, the sight of a real blonde is rare. The hair of the majority of the country maids is dark, though I pass an occasional light-colored or redhead on the streets. Their hair is often arranged becomingly, but never with a Marcel wave. Their complexions never have the steamed appearance of the city belle, but are fresl and wholesome. “But day after day as I get nSire* New York the lemon-rind blonde begins to crop up. She boards the 4;aln bound for New York from the Mttle town where she has probably beej visiting the home folk or other relatives, and her thoughts probably turn once more to the quick-lunch cashier’s desk where she presides with chewing gum and dignity, or to her place third from the right in the second row of tha chorus. The dark-haired sisters begin to melt away the closer the train gets to the city, so that by the outskirts of New York are sighted the dark crop has given way entirely to the peroxide fairy with the rippling Marcel wave and the adjustable waistline. I had heard about blonde being ibe proper thing in hair, but I thought it was a eomic-paper joke till I took to the road. One thing certain-—New York is the city of the blondes.” —New York Press.