All physicians have considered the colour of the hair as among the characters of the temperaments. Black indicates strength and vigour. The figure of a wrestler with flaxen hair would be almost ridiculous. This colour is the attribute of weakness and delicacy; it floats upon the head of figures which painters have made strangers to the great passions, to powerful and heroic deeds; it is found upon the figures of young people, in pictures where laughter, sport, grace and pleasure preside over the subjects. These two colours, black and flaxen, as well as their secondary shades, are found distributed among women in nearly equal proportion; now reflect upon the kind of sentiment this sex inspires according to the colour of the hair, without regard to any other consideration, and you will see that a woman with flaxen hair creates a sentiment which beauty and weakness united seem to dictate. The epithets that we employ express this double attribute. On the contrary, the term brunette announces in her that it designates, a mixture of force and beauty. Beauty is then a common gift which attracts us, but which, differently modified by external forms, attracts us by touching, interesting and exciting us. Eyes in which langour is depicted, are frequently associated with flaxen hair; whilst black hair is almost always met with, in those whose vivacity and sparkling seem to proclaim an excess of life which seeks to be diffused. Habit which accustoms us to every thing, changes our taste in regard to the colour of the hair, as it does to that of our dress. Black, flaxen and their numerous shades are in turns fashionable in France; and as the organization does not change with our taste, we have contrived artificial hair; a happy means, which seems to subject to our inconstancy the invariable course of nature, and which, changing at our will the expression which the physiognomy borrows from the hair, can at every instant exhibit man under forms which fashion extols to day, and which ridicule pursues tomorrow. Now among these numberless variations which succeed each other among us in the fashion of the hair, bright red and its various shades never find a place. Most people have a decided aversion to it. It is almost, in our eyes, a mal-formation to be born with it. This opinion is too general not to have some real foundation. The principle appears to me to be the usual connexion between the hair and the temperament and of course the character which results from this; now the kind of character connected with this kind of hair is not commonly the happiest, though there are many exceptions to this principle, which is proverbial. Another reason for the aversion to hair of a bright red, is that the oily fluid which lubricates it often exhales a fetid odour foreign to the other kinds of hair.