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Show THE RED HEADED LEAGUE Tho lied Head at last has como to his own. Formerly ho was a pariah. Mothers used to say to their red head cd daughters, "Darling, you will novor bo pretty, but If you nro good people will love you Just ns well." Which to tho feminine heart was a sentence of social death. But now the nows dispatches aro telling of the organization at Indiana-polls Indiana-polls of the Red Headed League of America. Four hundred flaming tope gathered from five nearby states to hold the first annual gathering. Tho only qualification for membership is the possession of a head of red hair. The owners thereof glory In tho distinction, dis-tinction, Quito a contrast It Is 'from tho days when one youngstor's sorred top was tactlessly referred to by his teacher. "My hair Is not red," he whimpered, "but a beautiful shado of auburn." Thus ho was repeating tho consol-' tlon with which his pitiful mother tried to soften a life long grief, Tho old saying that If you saw n lied Headed Girl, you would scon see a white horse, was a precursor of tho new point of velw. It suggCstod n dim first preceptlon of the power and fascination ot the golden head. Now and for many years our belles pay down good money for imitation of a color once despised and trodden undor foot. The lied Headed Man Is not yet con sldercd a thing of beauty. He used to bo regarded as a merely quarrelsome, bbumptlous, always turbulent tur-bulent fellow. Hut today wo value him Tor a quality that groWB moro rare. Fighting blood tends to die out. We all yield too easily to exactions u ml nbuses. The power of tho Red llendcd Man to get real mad, and denounces de-nounces wrongs and evils, Is neoded In our society. Wherefore hats off to tho lied Headed League ot America! Amer-ica! is sssssi |
