Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-22
Are Blonde Girls
to Disappear?

Blondes have a 80 per cent better
chance than brunettes 10 marry. Lady
Briarcroft
Fair girls are impressionable. sweet
and trusting, and make a stronger appeal
20 men."-Dr. W J. Gomersall.
Il found Of English women 7s.5 per cent
OF brunettes were married. only 6s per cent
OF blondes. The race is being made dark
by selection. Men marry the dark girls"
DIR. Beddoe.
80 fond were the Romans of golden
hair that flatterers called dark women
In compliment, honey colored "-Lucre-
thus.
The Greek and the Roman women
bleached their hair; the American. the
European, and the South Sea island
women do now."-Auerbacker.
There is scarcely an old master or an
old poet who has painted or sung a dark
woman. Helen Of Troy. Dante's Beatrice,
Millions Eve. all the madonnas all the
angels, we're blonde '--winckelmann.
Shakespeare had but two blonde
women In all his plays. The brunette
has at last come into popular favor The
brunette today is more popular than the
blonde Her beauty is superior. more re-
fined. more lasting. Henry 7. Finck.
The blonde type is doomed in America.
She is passing away like the SHOWS in
the suns heat II she cannot develop
. dark skin TO protect herself she must
succumb. Surgeon Major Charles Wood
ruff, U. s. A.
Gladstone Adolphe de Candolle. Or.
Beddoe, Waltz, and others show the
blonde type is passing away in Germany.
France and England. In Germany. once
the home OF the type, only 31s per cent
are now pure blondes; in Austria, only
1879 per cent
student of this subject. writing In the
Chicago Tribune. asserts that in ancient
times the blonde girl had the pick of all
the princes and knights. while her dark
sister was doing the best she could with
bank clerks and motor car conductors.
In the famous paintings OF the old mas
ters there are not ten OF women with
black hair. Titan left only one portrait
of brunette. or at least of an open and
admitted brunette. The Romans showed
their preference for the blonde type by
the quantity of yellow German hair they
imported. The angels OF the old paint
painted black.
1T. beuuOS eAbnlneu Ino IaTbI ~
women Of pure type he could find In Eng
land. OF this number. $50 were brunette
and s57 blonde He holds the theory that
the English race Is being darkened in
color by selection, Men marry the darh
women. Gladstone, years ago. made the
statement that the pure blonde type wa
dying out
NJ. Adolphe de Candolle, a French auth
GRITTY. declares the blonde type is disap
pearing in that country. In Jarrold. 4
il said Of England that as late as Henry
Wits time that the predominating typ,
was red headed. This is certainly not tn,
case now. In Germany, according tc
Waits. the pure blonde type. which wa
almost universal in the middle ages, II
fast dying out In Germany, Switzerland
Belgium and Austria an examination wa.
recently made OF almost 100000 schoo
children The result was that In switzer
land the percentage of pure blonde chill
dren was only Ill, in Austria It was 10 70
and in Germany as, In some places tn,
percentage OF pure brunettes had reaches
as high as Is. This, be Il remembered
in the very home ana cradle Of the blond.
races
II the yellow-haired, blue-eyed girl 4
becoming more scarce and harder to fint
every year It would appear to be unques
tionable that in time she will become
rarity, and as such valued above all othe
things.