Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-23
BLONDE AND BRUNETTE
FORMER PREDoM1NATE AMONG
WORLDS WORKERS.
From the New York Tribune.

A boy who has been derisively called
'Towhead" In the schoolyard by some
other boy does not soon forget IT. or
course. his tormentor has dark hair. and
he must remain speechless or find some
other way Of replying to this unpleasant
allusion to his conspicuous tawny hair. Ii
he only knew as much about 1t as some CT
the students of the races OF mankind ana
had the courage Of his convictions he
could retort in crushing fashion. Accord
ing 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 ethnologists to be
possessed Of more brain and to be the most
aggressive of mankind. Evolved in the
northwestern part OF Europe. in the neigh
borhood Of the Baltic sea, only the strong
est have survived. Obliged to use their
wits in order to live, they developed brain
capacity.
One man, curious to find out whether
blondes or brunettes predominated among
the famous people of England. studied their
compilations carefully and found that more
than two-thirds of the political reformers
and agftators. three-fifths of tho sailors
and more than half of the scientists the
soldiers. the artists. the poets the members
OF the royal family. the lawyers and the
created peers and their sons were blondes.
Among the statesmen men and women DE
letters. the hereditary aristocracy the cier-
gymen the men Of low BIRTH explorers and
actors and actresses, the brunettes OUT
numbered the blondes.
From this observation he concluded that
AN excess of fairness prevails among the
men of restless and ambitious temperament
the sanguine, energetic men, the men who
easily dominate their fellows and who get
on In ufe the men who recruit the aris-
tocracy. and who doubtless largely form
the plutocracy. Artisans, peasants, the
men Of religion. whose mission in life Is
to practice and preach resignation to a
higher will actors and thinkers, these he
observed, were more apt to be dark than
light In complexion. The fair man tended
to be bold, energetic. restless and dom-
neering,' while the dark man tended to be
resigned and religious and initiative. yet
highly intelligent"
whether one agrees with this conclusion
OF not. 1t Is true that some of the most
aggressive. restless and ambitious men have
been blondes. President Roosevelt is q
blonde Emperor William Of Germany be-
longs to family of the blonde type. The
John Paul Jones indicates that he was IN
clined to be blonde. Kosciusko. the IA
nous Polish leader, and Kossuth. the much
DeloVed Magyar leader, were blondes
The great wandererers of the world are
those who follow the sea Constantly
restless. sailors are never satisfied when
ashore, Tor then they would be af1oat
When af1oat they cast longing ewes toward
the shore. Some Of the best sailors are
furnished by the blonde nations The Nor
Weglan has been a sailor since the DAVIS
when hen the restless Vikings came down out
OF the north on their ravaging expeditions
lie Is FOUND in the service of every nation
which has large mercantile fleet.
me restless temperament possibly ac-
counts for the fact that most blondes are
Professionals in religion. They brought
about the reformation. Most of the
European countries Inhabited by pro-
nounced blonde races are Protestants. In
In inh
Catholicism has It's strongest hold the
brunette predominates. According to one
student of ethnology, blondes prefer the
country. while brunettes naturally seek
the city. Brunettes, he says predominate
in urban districts.
Blondes have played large part in his
tory. Some ethnologists declare that the
race which made Greece famous was a
blonde one, which came down from the
north. They developed the language, the
art and the literature and contributed the
material and methods which made Greece
famous as military power on land and
sea. The blondes laid the foundation Of
the great Roman empire, according to
some OF these students, they also con-
tributed to its disintegration.
A strange reason is given by one student
for the European practice of putting
faXen hair on dolls, for the tendency of
actresses and meretrtcious women to
bleach the hair. and for the choice OF the
blonde type for representations Of the
Christ, the Madonna, angels, fairies prin-
quering type In Europe, he says, of course
became the aristocracy, the ruling type or
soldier class. History and tradition show
that even In prehistoric times the nobility
and aristocracy were blonde, even in coun-
tries strongly brunette. Admiration for
the blonde ruling classes, he thinks, lay
at the bottom of these customs and ten
denotes. The brunette comprised the
lower classes including the serfs. These
naturally looked up to the ruling blondes
with desire to please and appease. One
would be inclined 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 brunette
When He came to be regarded of
the Trinity the instinct TO think of rul-
Ing person as a blonde took possession Of
the painters. and He was depicted as tall
blonde. with amber hair and beard. blue
of red and an oval face. The Virgin Mary
was also at first considered to be a bru-
nette Then, when she became an object
Of worship. she was pictured as a blonde.
AS an evidence of the correctness Of this
theory, it is pointed out that Mary Magda-
lene, who IS considered to be of lowly
origin, is usually painted as a brunette.
So are the devil and his imps, for the same
reason. The villain on the stage Is usual
ly a dark-browed parsonage The thieves
crucifed on either side of the cross In pic
lures Of the scene generally ere depicted
with a dark complexion
In many Of the modern symbolical paint
ings, especially mural pictures. there Is
tendency to use the blonde type. AS an
Illustration. this theorist draws attention