Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-01-02
BLONDES AND BRUNErTEs.
here 10 Philosopher Who Says That the
Former Arc Passing Away.

Former Arc Passing Away.
seRLoNDE WOMEN ARE BECOMING
Dscarcer every year." said an eminent an
thropologist to a STAR writer. you have not
lived long enough to remark the fact, but
women with blue eyes and light hair are grad
ually though surely passing away as type. In
each successive generation there are fewer Of
them than in the last. Already such thing
as real blonde, purely such, is so rarely seen
In this country as to excite remark. Golden
tresses are SO very infrequent that real ones
are usually suspected of being dyed. In short,
1t has become evident that before very long
there will be no blonde women any more
"The same thing is true Of men. Among
their sex light hair and blue eyes are fast dis
appearing. You may judge how rapidly they
are going when you consider the fact that,
wherever brun man marries blonde woman
or vice versa, &C per cent Of the children born
have dark hair and eyes. At that rate not very
many centuries will be required to wipe out
the blond type altogether. You wonder how
this matter has been determined with such &C.
curacy? Simply by including such statistical
observations in the census of nations. In
Germany and France the very school children
| are examined and have their characters re-
| corded from an anthropological standpoint.
observations made in this way so as to
| cover millions Of persons of both sexes have
resulted in the discovery that the dark people
bring more children into the world than do
the light people. Furthermore, they have
greater muscular ylgor and they live longer.
! hus in every point which has to do with the
perpetuation OF q species they are superior.
The rule in nature seems to be that pigment,
which produces the color of the hair and eyes,
is an indication OF force. Albinoes among ami
mais and pallid plants are always weak
after all. there are comparatively few light
people in the world. All the straight haired
races arc dark. All the nboriginal Americans
are dark from the Arctic Circle to Cape Horn.
Ali the Asiatics are dark. All the Oceanic PEG.
pies are dark. Ali the Africans are dark, ex-
cept few blonde tribes in the Barbary states.
Likewise all the southern Europeans are dark.
The dark people have the great advantage of
being able to stand any climate, while the light
con,plexioned races cannot endure the heat OF
| the tropics.
LIGHT PEOPLE GOVERN THE WORLD.
San apparent contradiction to all this il
afforded by the fact that wherever the light
haired and blue-eyed peoples have come into
conflict with races Of dark complexion the lat
ter have always been defeated. The light peo-
pie govern the world today. Queen Victoria
| has blue eyes, and the sun never sets on her
| 6ominions. Descendants of Anglo-Saxons
| dominate the new world. Even South America
Africa and the civilized part of Asia are fairly
| run by the English and Germans. Germany
| leads all the nations of the earth in science and
| learning, and three-fourths of her population
are blue eyed. The yellow-halred Swedes
| Danes and Norwegians furnish the sailors oil
the world English is the language Of the
| globe. French has often been called the uni.
yersal language but it is in fact merely q
court language outside Of France. The Chinese
have a 'pidgin' English, but not a 'pidgin
French. All the modern jargons of the world
for trade purposes, are notifications OF En-
glish
1.-The blue-eyed and light-haired peoples are
by far the most brave of the moderns. By
| their superior intelligence and bravery they
have conquered the world; but their task in
accomplishing this has implied an enormou,
strain upon their powers. So great strain
| has not been conducive to the prolongation oil
| their existence and to the perpetuatIon of theil
| kind. Races Of people are like breeds of horses
| and cattle. or like stocks in plants. They last
| for awhile, but not forever, disappearing
sooner or later. If n severe strain is put upor
them in one way or another. they will pas,
| away so much the more quickly. The high culture
mental activities to the utmost, has the effect
of reducing the number and physical strength
| of their offspring, thus shortening the life o.
| their race.
$50, owing to such causes as these, we fine
that the blue-eyed and light-haired people ar,
| diminishing in numbers at very rapid rate
| We take notice of it in the women particularly
| Soon must we say, Farewell ys golden tresse,
and violet orbs! During centuries to come
| the dark people are destined to achieve ant
! hold domination in the world, until, rs il very
| likely, the cycle of complexion has gone
| around and the blond shall rule again"
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