The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-27
Passing of the Blonde.

New York Tribune Despite the of peroxide
and face lotions, the blondes passing They are
getting scarcer every day, and they will disappear
entirely in six centuries according to the melancholy
prediction of science There will be no fair
compexions to light up the Rialto no more golden
locks to give contrast in the spangled ranks of the
chorus. The world will be wilderness of brunette
beauty ranging between the shades of coffee and BIZ
luminous coal Lovers will sigh and dream of the
golden past, unless they quite blinded by their
passion Artists will resign themselves to studies in
black and white A blond person who appears in
the street will probably be arrested for drawing a
crowd Even red whiskers will be extreme rarity,
only exhibited in dime museums, and the juXtaposi-
ton of white horses and red-headed girls will be a
miracle
1t is frightful prospect, sketched by Freder-
lex BOYLE in "The Contemporary Review" and one
that alleviated only by its comparative remoteness
Humanity may be able to think up some means of
stavng off its brunette doom within the next six
hundred years 1t might decide to wear wigs or
spend part of each season at international beachereS
established at the north pole. The congresses and
paraments of the world might offer a reward for
the discovery of hair dye that won't and
face cream that won't taste like oleomargarlne
Six centuries do give little breathing time to take
steps against the descent of darkness.
The fair complexioned folk it seems, not fitted
to survive in these modern days of quick luncheons
and subway travel They all right to conquer
and COLOMBO the world when that was healthy out
door exercise, but they can't compete with the bru-
nettes the hustle and close quarters of great
cities The whole Aryan race is probably on the
downhill This includes the Hindus, Anglo-Sax
ons, Afghans, Germans, Greeks, Persians, Irish,
French and other tribes, who generally despise
another and call the other kind "dagoes" The whole
lot of them losing their blue eyes, pale cheeks and
light hair, if the evolutionary makeup man were
preparing them for a minstrel show. The process
did not begin yesterday, but it has doubt been
clerated with the speedy development of modern
conditions. The blondes were great fighters and mi
orators. The Homeric heroes had mostly golden
locks, and the Athenians probably fair and blue
eyed like the early Venetians and the socalled Moors
who conquered Spain.
1t is asserted that even in modern times the bodily
structure correlated with a fair complexion has
proved itself superior in colonizng enterprises resist
ing the evil influences of climate and environ
ment generally. The west coast of Africa is not so
fatal to the red-haired white to brunette
types, and the fact is said to be noted in the
far east and tropical America. At home and in
cities the brunettes forge to the front Statistics
dealing with recruits in the civil taken from the
government records at Washington interpreted
to prove that the brunette type, whole, offers
greater resistance to disease" If city life is
suited to the fair compeXoned it is obvious that the
increasing trend of population from country to town
will lead to the disappearance of the weaker type
and in a calculable period of time. Two London
Physicians, DR.. Shrubsal and Dr. Jones, have made
observations from thousand cases of children in
hospitals, and both series of figures "show marked
not only of blonde traits but asoofthe
pure blonde type, indicating greater amount of
disease" The bad air and the foul stenches of the
the fair compilations. The brunettes fttest to
survive under this unnatural state of things