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Is It Really Such a Misfortune
It a Woman’s Hair Is Red?
RED i fashionable color
for woman’s hair just now,
but in many periods and
countries to have red hair meant
to test the depths of misfortune,
even death. We know now that
red :• is an added beauty from
the artist’s point of view, tor it
is almost always accompanied by
a beautiful complexion, and the
red-haired woman is the cynosure
of all eyes at the opera or the re
ception.
Queen Elizabeth considered that
she was most attractive when
wearing a red wig, and others
have shared her predilection for
this color, so that now no one with
a wealth of auburn tresses would
uream of trying to uiv«r their
color.
A great German doctor let it be
known that he as blessed with a
wile “who could make red hair as
white as a lily,” but no modern
woman would wish to patronize
her.
A story is told of a woman
'’’hose lover had an unconquerable
antipathy to red hair, so she ap
plied to a quack to have the color
altered. He replied that this was
his wife's department, and that
she would furnish the lady with
a leaden comb and the anti-Ery
thraean unguent which “after two
or three applications will make
you as fair or as dark as you
please,"
Prejudice against red hair runs
back even to Egyptian times, for
in that land of lecided opinions
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and strong prejudices it was the
custom to burn alive some unfor
tunate individual cursed with red
hair, so it was decidedly uncom
fortable to have red hair in Egypt,
as no one knew whose turn would
come next.
That’ the Chinese shared this
prejudice against red hair is
proved by their epithet for the
English, whom they called “red
haired barbarians” or “red-haired
devils.”
The great exception to this rule
among ancient nations is tho
Romans, for since the time of
Nero they have praised red hair
in tho highest terms. They pre
ferred a dark red. almost brown,
such as we term auburn, and
modern Romans share this liking.
It is said that among the patrician
families of Rome and Florence
there is an abnormally large num
ber of red-haired women. Modern
Greeks share this predilection
with the Romans an. they height
en the reddish effect of the hair by
wearing dull .old ornaments.
Petrarch’s Laura is described as
having had golden red hair, so tho
poet wrote:
“The snare was set amidst those
threads of gold
To which Love bound mo fast.”
One of the most frequent causes
of tho prejudice against red hair
in Christian countries undoubted
ly goes back to the tradition that
Judas, the betrayer of Jesus, had
rod hair, and most >' the artists
paint him thus. Shakespeare re
fers to this in "As You Lke It.”
TO feel glad that you are going to lose $500,000!
What a rare and exquisite sensation!
It is the sensation which Mrs. W. K. Vander
bilt, Jr., is about to enjoy.
Already she is tasting in anticipation the delights of
giving up $500,000.
Mrs. Vanderbilt Is the youthful aunt of young Her
mann Oelrichs, Jr. He is the son of her older sister,
who is the widow of the late Hermann Oelrichs. He was
page at his aunt's wedding.
mj s She bet her nephew' $500,000 that he could not ab-
stain from drinking and tobacco until his twenty-first
Margaret birthday. Within a month, In all human probability.
5 she will have to pay her bet.
Andrews Young Hermann is one of the most promising youths
physically In the Four Hundred. He is a rider, a fencer,
and Her ancl has won all sorts of golf and tennis prizes. Os
course, he is a daring automobllist, but that is hardly
Police a credit to a young man with lots of money, and is
i.:ore likely to shorten his life than to make it happier.
Dog. He Is the son of a father who was as strong as an
„ . ox and was quite noted for being the most powerful
Society man in society. He could swim for four hours at a time
Tl . . and could hold his own with the gloves against a pro-
Inmks . fessional prize fighter. In spite of his strength and his
„ ' powers, Hermann Oelrichs died a comparatively young
loung man, and his life was far from happy. He left his
.. property away from his wife.
Two years ago young Hermann Oelrichs was nine-
Oe!r ; chi teen years old ’ ust at the age when life begins to
offer its greatest temptations to the rich and well-
Mav favored. At that age a youth in New York society has
y all the opportunities that send him to swift moral and
Claim physical ruin. Ordinarily he has too much money to
spend, money with which he can woo the means of
Miss perdition. Even if he has not actually too much cash,
he can, as the scion of a wealthy family, obtain all the
Andrews credit he needs to ruin himself.
Mrs. Vanderbilt saw the pitfalls that lay before her
as a young and attractive nephew. She knew them from
bitter experience. She had had better opportunities,
Further perhaps, than any woman of her age tn society to see
the harm that wealth can do to a young man. She
Xev.’ard was married to the eldest son of William K Vander-
, bilt, one of the greatest millionaires in America. Her
* or husband grew up with the prospect of inheriting up
c, . ward of $30,000,000.
•bieying Young Vanderbilt became known years ago as the
in the most daring amateur automobile racer in the world-
He founded the best known of all automobile racing
Straipht prizes. In turn he became a patron 6f flying. Every
sport that interested him received his generous sup
and port. He did not neglect the stage.
• Mrs. Vanderbilt knew well that wealth and sports
Narrow d* d n °t bring happiness or long life. Many expensive
vaults and tombstones marked the premature end of
Way. men of her family and acquaintance, who had begun
life by having too good a time
when Rosalind says of Jrlando,
“His very hair is of the dissem
bling color, ’» and Celia answers;
“Something browner than Ju
das’s. ’’
The Brahmins were forbidden to
marry a red-haired woman, and,
as has been said: “The populace
of most countries, rnfounding
moral with aesthetic impressions,
accuse red-haired people of various
shortcomings.” Henco. supersti
tion has assigned to hair of a cop
pery tinge, when it adorns a wom
an’s head, the worst traits; and “all
the petty vices, all the lamentable
shortcomings to which femininity
is heir have been laid to the red
dish crown.”
It is most unfortunate when a
young girl with reddish hair be
comes too self-conscious, for she
is thus apt to mistake looks of ad
miration for gaping criticism. She
may indeed use the precaution of
not standing by a pink-shaded
lamp, which accentuate the color
cf her tresses too highly, but it is
a pity if she Jiink herself the ob
served of ail observers, and lose
her charming unconsciousness of
observation.
Besides the old tradition of
Judas having been red-haired aid
ing to create the prejudice exist
ing in many lands, the fact of the
feeling against red hair in England
is set down to the red-haired
Danes, who could net be regarded
save as invaders and barbarians.
It is tho suggestion of character
being implied by the color of the
hair that has influenced most per
He’s Twenty-one.
If a young man has no Incentive to work, no ex
traordinary mind that impels him to do something, he
is almost certain to yield to the lure of the wine cup
and the voice of the siren.
Perhaps Mrs. Vanderbilt saw that her nephew was
in danger. At any rate, she determined to guide him
on the path of abstinence and industry In a very orig
inal way.
“Why don’t you do some real work, Hermann?” en
inquired.
“Can’t earn enough to make It worth while.” said
the youth carelessly.
“How much would you consider worth while?" en
quired his aunt.
“Oh, SIOO,OOO a year, or so.”
“Well, I will give you a chance to make it.”
This caught the young man’s attention and drew
his thoughts away from cigarettes and whatever other
worthless object they were centred upon.
His aunt then made a wager with him that if he
abstained from all intoxicating liquors and tobacco
until he was twenty-one years old, she was to pay him
$500,000. If he failed to make good he was to pay her
$500,000.
“Well, that money is as good as in my pocket,” was
the young man’s comment when the wager was con
cluded.
But in the months to come he found It was not easy
to be temperate and self-denying in the fashionable so
ciety of New York and Newport. Many a time ho had
to sit for hours while every imaginable kind of intoxi
cating drink was being consumed. It is the boredom
that is so trying in such cases. Then he had to sit for
more hours while his friends surrounded him with
clouds of cigar and cigarette smoke.
He persisted in working for his wager, however,
and the result of his persistence was that he grew
stronger in mind and body, a better sportsman and a
more popular member of society.
He had an auto race with Vincent. Astor on the
sands cf Second Beach at Newport. Young Oelrichs’s
car caught fire, but he kept going until he won the
race and then had to drive into the ocean to put out the
fire.
He has constructed a wireless apparatus on he roof
of his mother's mansion, at Fifty seventh street and
Fifth avenue. He was always a mechanical genius, for
in his infancy he built a motor yacht.
Young Oelrichs has been very attentive to Miss Mar
tret Andrews, one of the most interesting young girls
of the Newport colony, who makes her debut this year.
There is a friendly rivalry between him and Vincent
Astor in this direction.
Lately he has been working hard as a law student
at Columbia University. Everywhere he is known as
“the rich boy who never smokes or drinks.”
Next month the $500,000 falls due, and no one has
any doubt that young Hermann Oelrichs will get it.
Working for it has made him a splendid young man,
and that is why his aunt will be giad to lose the motuy.
Miss Andrews and Vincent Astor, Who Is Said to Be as Deeply
in Love with Her as Hermann Oelrichs.
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•otis tn this connection. The idea
that red haired persons am high
tempered is very general, but it is
far from being true, and many
black-haired persons are just as
hot tempered and even more cruel.
No one. should worrj because he
or she is adorned with red hair, no
matter bow carroty the red may
be. Tho way to fight prejudice is
to prove its falsity, ard If all ths
red-haired persons would make a
cornpact of amiability the super
stition about them would rapidly
disappear. The person with red
hair can learn self-control just as
easily as any one else, and the at
tractiveness of the brilliant col
ored hair may be made to increase
her popularity.
As men’ grow wiser they do not
judge by externals—and red hair
It no exception, otherwise it would
not • on fashionable
Mrs.
W. K.
Vander
bilt,
Jr.,
who 4
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Wager
of
Five
Hundred
Thousand
Dollars
to
Her
Nephew.
Herman’.
Oelrichs.
On
Account
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His
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Digging Into the Sanscrit of
tin "Atharva Veda,” a
writer in the London Lancet
discovers that a very good imita-
Hor of modern surgery was prac
Used in India in the third century
before the oeginning of the Chris
tian Era.
The great Indian surgical and
medical authority of that time was
Snshurta He had what some may
■ egard ns sound views on medical
politics, and his ethics were the
highest, for he says. ’ A physician
experienced in his art. but deficient
in the knowledge of the science of
medicine, is condemned by all good
men as a quack, and deserves capi
tal punishment at the hands of the
King.”
-.gain, “The patient who may
mistrust his own parents, sons, and
relatives should repose an implicit
faith in his own physician, and put
his own life into his hands without
the least apprehension of danger;
bonce a physicain should protect his
patient as his own begotten child.”
But it is in the chapters on re
parative surgery, on hygiene and
preventive medicine that he shines
Ills pages bear comparison with
the most up-to-date treatises on
those subjects.
“A surgeon veil versed In the
knowledge of surgery should slice
off a patch of living flesh from rhe
cheek of a person devoid of ear
lobes in a manner so as to have one
of its ends attached to its former
seat. I'hen the part where the arti-
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ficial ear-lobe is to be made should
be slightly scarified with a knife
and the living flesh, full of blood
and sliced off as previously di
rected, should be united to it so as
to resemble a natural ear-lobe is
shape.”
Sushurta says. “He falls an easy
victim to internal and external dis
eases who drinks of, or bathes in. a
pool of water which is full of poi
sonous worms, or is saturated with
decayed animal matter or is defiled
with germs of vermin or decom
posed animal organisms, or is cov
ered over with the growth of
aquatic plants, or i strewn over
with withered and decomposed
leaves, or which in any way is
rendered poisonous and contami
nated, as well as he who driu.u
and bathes in the freshly collected
water cf a pool or a reservoir dur
ing the rains.”
With the help only of a tew
short extracts it is possible to con
vey a rough idea of the advanced
state of medical and surgical sci
ence in those early days in Ind's
when Royal Universities existed a
Benares and Taxilia. The seriou -
attempt which was made to sy~
tematise the knowledge possess; d.
and Hie form and variety of th--
surigeal instruments in use are in
dications that the Indians had at
tained a high degree of efficiency
in these sciences, which we mu<
suppose they subsequently lost, for
we do not see any indications of its
existence among the practitioners of
uutive medicine to-day.