Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-11-10
Former Predominant Among
the Workers of the
World.
ROOSEVELT IS A BLONDE
they Have Taken the Lead in tn
Advancement of the Religions
and Art of the
World.
From the New York Tribune.

course, his tormentor has dark hair.
and he must remain speechless or find
some other way of replying to his I'M
pleasant allusion to his conspicuous
tawny hair. II he only knew as much
about 1t as some of the students OF
the races of mankind and had the cour-
age of his convictions he could retort
in a crushing fashion. According to
some ethnologists, his hair is the badge
of the dominant type in the worlds
history.
Blondes and the blonde type have
been demonstrated by some ethnolo-
gists to be possessed of more brain and
TO be the most aggressive of
Evolved in the northwestern part OF
Europe, in the neighborhood of the Bal
tic sea, only the strongest have sur
vived. Obliged to use their wits in or
der to live, they developed brain capa-
city.
One man, curious to find out whether
blondes or brunettas predominated
among the famous people of England,
studied their compilations carefully and
found that more than two-thirds of the
political reformers and ~agitatOrS, three
ffths of the sailors, soldiers, the artists.
the poets, the members OF the royal
family, the lawyers and the created
pCGI0 anu y GOll0 WCAG
Among the statesmen, men n women
OF letters, the hereditary aristocracy.
the clergymen, the men of low birth,
explorers and actors and actresses, the
brunettes outnumbered the blondes.
From this observation he concluded
that "an excess OF fairness prevails
among the men of restless and ambi-
tious temperament-the ~sanguine, en-
ergetic men, the men who easily domi-
nate their fellows and who get on In
life, the men who recruit the aristoc-
racy, and who doubtless largely form
the plutocracy." Artisans, peasants.
the men of religion, whose mission In
life is to practice and preach resigna-
ton to a higher WILL" actors and think
ers, these, he observed, were more apt
to be dark than light in complexion.
The fair man tended to be bold, en-
ergetic, restless and domineering."
While the dark man tended to be re
signed and religious and initiative, yet
highly intelligent"
Whether one agrees with this conclu-
sion or not, 1T is true that some Of the
most aggressive, restless and ambitious
men have been blondes. President
Roosevelt is a blonde. Emperor VIII
liam of Germany belongs to a family or
the blonde type. The color OF the hair
found on the body of John Paul Jones
indicates that he was inclined to be
blonde. Kosciusko, the famous Polish
leader. and Kossuth, the much-beloved
Magyar leader, were blondes.
The great wanderers of the world are
those who follow the sea. Constantly.
restless, sailors are never satisfied
when ashore, for hen they would be
aficat, When afioat they cast longing
Eyes toward the shore. Some of the
best sailors are furnished by the blonde
nations. The Norwegian has been q
sailor since the days when the restless
Vikings came down out OF the north
on their rayaging expeditions. He is
found In the service OF every nation
which has n large mercantile fleet.
h restless temperament possibly
accounts for the fact that most blondes
are Protestants In religion. They
brought about tho reformation. Most
Of the European countries inhabited
by pronounced blonde races are Protes-
tants. In the European countries in
which Roman Catholicism has its
strongest hold, the brunette predomi-
mates. According to one student OF
ethnology, blondes prefer the country,
while brunettes naturally seek the city.
Brunettes. he says, predominant In ur-
ban districts.
Blondes have played a large part In
history. Some ethnologists declare that
the race which made Greece famous
was a blonde one, which came down
from the north. They developed the
language, h art and the literature,
n contributed the material and meth
DDS which made Greece famous as a
military power on land and sea The
blondes laid the foundation of the
great Roman empire, according to some
of these students, as they also contrib
uted to its disintegration.
A strange reason Is given by one stu
dent for the European practice OF put
ting flaxen hair on dolls. for the tend
ency of actresses and meretricious
women to bleach the hair, and for the
choice OF the blonde type for repre-
sentations of the Christ, the Madonna,
angels, fairies, princesses and symbol
ical figures. h conquering type IN
Europe, he says, of course. became the
a~ristocracy, the ruling type or soldier
class. History n tradition show that
even in prehistoric times the nobility
and aristocracy were blonde, even in
countries strongly brunette. Admira-
ton for the blonde ruling classes, he
thinks, lay at the bottom of these GUS
toms and tendencies. The brunette
comprised the lower classes, including
the serfs. These naturally looked UP
TO the ruling blondes with q desire to
please and appease. One would be in
clined to think that Jesus Christ and
his mother. owing to their race. were
brunettes. One writer says that until
the second century the former was
generally considered to be a brunette.
When He came to be regarded as one
of the Trinity the instinct to think of
a ruling person as a blonde took DOS
session Of the painters, and He was de-
picted as a tall blonde with amber hair
and beard, blue eyes,, clear complexion,
with delicate tinge of red and oval face.
The Virgin Mary was also at first con-
sidered to be a brunette. Then. when
she became an object or worship, she
was pictured as a blonde AS an evil
dence Of the correctness of this theory
it IL pointed out that Mary Magdalene.
who is considered to be OF lowly origin.
is usually painted as a brunette. So
ere the devil and his imps for the same
reason. The villain on the stage Is
usually a dark-browed parsonage. The
thieves cruciied on either sid Oh the
cross in pictures OF the scene generally
are depicted with q dark complexion.
In many Of the modern symbQacal
paintings. especially mural pictures,
there IS e. tendency to use the blonde
type. Al an iliustration, thls theorlr<
draws attention TO the decor&f1o1o of
the Boston library, IN Hfhich1 1eW kxux
nettes occur.