1. DIFFERENT COLORS.--Coarseness and fineness of texture in nature indicate
coarse and fine-grained feelings and characters, and since black signifies
power, and red ardor, therefore coarse black hair and skin signify great
power of character of some kind, along with considerable tendency to the
sensual; yet fine black hair and skin indicate strength of character, along
with purity and goodness.
2. COARSE HAIR.--Coarse black hair and skin, and coarse red hair and
whiskers, indicate powerful animal passions, together with corresponding
strength of character; while fine or light, or auburn hair indicates quick
susceptibilities, together with refinement and good taste.
3. FINE HAIR.--Fine dark or brown hair indicates the combination of
exquisite susceptibilities with great strength of character, while auburn
hair, with a florid countenance, indicates the highest order of sentiment
and intensity of feeling, along with corresponding purity of character,
combined with the highest capacities for enjoyment and suffering. {478}
4. CURLY HAIR.--Curly hair or beard indicates a crisp, excitable, and
variable disposition, and much diversity of character--now blowing hot, now
cold--along with intense love and hate, gushing, glowing emotions,
brilliancy, and variety of talent. So look out for ringlets; they betoken
April weather--treat them gently, lovingly, and you will have the
brightest, clearest sunshine, and the sweetest, balmiest breezes.
5. STRAIGHT HAIR.--Straight, even, smooth, and glossy hair indicate
strength, harmony, and evenness of character, and hearty, whole-souled
affections, as well as a clear head and superior talents; while straight,
stiff, black hair and beard indicate a coarse, strong, rigid,
straight-forward character.
6. ABUNDANCE OF HAIR.--Abundance of hair and beard signifies virility and a
great amount of character; while a thin beard signifies sterility and a
thinly settled upper story, with rooms to let, so that the beard is very
significant of character.
7. FIERY RED HAIR indicates a quick and fiery disposition. Persons with
such hair generally have intense feelings--love and hate intensely--yet
treat them kindly, and you have the warmest friends, but ruffle them, and
you raise a hurricane on short notice. This is doubly true of auburn curls.
It takes but little kindness, however, to produce a calm and render them as
fair as a Summer morning. Red-headed people in general are not given to
hold a grudge. They are generally of a very forgiving disposition.