The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-10
REAL BLONDES
BEING CROWDED.
Golden Haired People With Sky Blue
Eyes Are Becoming Extinct
According to the
Scientists.
|MARRIGE IN JAPAN l
WedIock in That Country SENS to be
Considered with More Rev
erence Than In
This.
UNITED Press Special Service

United Press special Servlce.I
BERLIN, Dec. 9.-Real BLONDES" of |
the golden hair peach blossom
complexion and "sky-blue" eyes type
of the nevelists, who, according to
the men of science are rapidly being
crowded on the earth by their more
aggressive dark-eyed sisters of the
"nut-brown hair" and raven tresses"
variety, are not to become extinct. A
new cult and community. having for
its object race culture of the pure
blonde and light-eyed type, has been
discovered Just across the German
frontier in upper Austria. 1t calls it J
self the New Templar Community.
High up on the top of precipitous
granite cliff overlooking the beautiful
Donau river is the picturesque TEN
PIE Priory" of the new cult. in what
formerly the old castle of Werfen-
stein with which many legends are con-
nected and mention OF which is made
in the Nibelnngenlied. Here sman !
community headed by DR.. j. L. Won
Lioberfels, German physician,
Prior OF the Temple has its home
AS explained by DIR. Liebenfels, the
cult of which he is the head and lead
er combines in its tenets, art and
scientific educational instruction and
race hygenic idealization and ennob-
ling of the body, having for it's object
1.-The purity of the blonde race of men
and women. =
Only men and women OF the strictly
blonde type are In the community or
are eligible. The members of the cult
must obligate theselyes to marry only
| BLONDES" to promote the beauty of
the blonde type in every possible way
| through @hygenic body culture" and
| to aid BLONDES" in the securing of
positions, assisting them in case of
need or illness and in all acts of kind
or charity, to give preference to the
blonde type The private cult. ex-
| plains the Prior. Consists of scien-
Itific precepts combined with art, which
are impressed upon the mind and soul
Through symbolical Liturgy"
| Marriage In Japan.
In Japan marriage means the union
of two bodies with single soul. The
man trusts his wife implicitly in all
/ things and she in turn always remains
his silent friend. 1t follows that the
Japanese wife is the personification
of faithfulness and is devoid of jeal-
ousy. She forgives her husband a
little mistep knowing full well that his
!! soul is trne to her" Thus writes Ku-
rashima Tamori, in the German publi-
cation die Zeit," on the subject of
what we Japanese think of German
marriage, which may also interest
American readers.
"In Japan" he says. men do not
come into contact with the opposite
sex until quite late in life. No young
man who has any respect for himself
would speak to a girl before he has
reached the age of % or %. He
/ would become the object of jeers. This
makes it impossible for our youths to
have the relations with women and all
ready be promised" to some girl
while still a boy, as is the case in
4 Germany.
i "It seems that the otherwise SEN
sible German is full of Illusions when
it comes to the matter OF marriage.
Either he has lived his life and ex-
poets to find rest in wedlock, In