RED-HAIRED GIRLS.
HARO TO DEPRESS THEM.
CAN LOOK AFTER THEMSELVES. The best girls have red hair, Miss Bacon, who has been selecting waitresses for Lyon’s tea shops since 1903, told a Press representative. She has interviewed more than 300,000 girls—more than the poulation of Tasmania— and has often seen 200 a day. Lyon’s employ 10,000. “ Red hair brightens everything in the vicinity,’’ she said. “ Red-haired girls are jolly, and it is harder to depress them. They possess initiative and personality and are so accustomed to the cognomen ‘ ginger ’ at school that they have learnt to take abuse good-naturedly and to look after themselves.
“It is very important that a waitress should take growls without being ruffled. The red-haired girls mostly possess a striking appearance, good complexions, and ambition. “Brunettes are capable on the average, blondes are very often negative, but we like a few about. “My ambition is to run a teashop staffed with red-haired girls only—the redder the better.” Miss Bacon herself is not redhaired.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17994, 12 April 1930, Page 15 (Supplement)
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