G. A. SAM ON RED-HAIRED GIRLS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1312, 24 February 1883, Page 2

G. A. SAM ON RED-HAIRED GIRLS.

I read (says Mr Sala, writing in the^ Illustrated London News) : in- the " r pe'r-' sonal" intelligence of the New York Herald the.following:—" Red-haired girls may profitably read the following description of one of their -kind.:—'/ A- . with red hair looked very nice in a myrtle green skirt, with gray and green • checked, woollen stuff for overdress. Her bonnet was .of a dark red straw, the brim being 'covered with j white ' beaded lace,.falling over white wild rases, '■ The strings were of dark red ribbon, and, round -her throat was /a white gauze tie. It in rather difficult fqr a girl with red hairto manage; colors wejlj but tl)is was a decidolj sup-' cess." Tl|P young latjy s,o mnsji have looked'"'a little mixed.". 4fa you ■' not an admirer of red-haii ed girls 11 am. I do not moan. the ambigiiqus' > " ginger" or the" golden auburn," but '• downright pcomproniising Leonardo, du Vinci blopd-red Jiair. "The finest': specimens of ret} hair may s||)ibp seen'' among tlje working classiVgirk| aji Venjce, During t|(e Austrian qccqpar ■• * tion marry''of tlje .Tedescj}i,Bqjdiers.and,... civilan otijcials, wooed and vojl Italjan wives, and from these may be descended the race of pink-cheeked, fair and !( touzled" haired girls (for all the world/ like the Viennese grisettes) whom you may see trotting about the Merceriaf, but the grandly red-haired Venetian girl is much more rarely met with, When seen to be made a note of,