Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-28
Blends Can't Five in City.

Blends Can't Live in City.
The blond type of man and woman
comes from cold and ssemisunlighted
climates. They are fifes children of
the vikings of old, of the hardy Ger
mans of the seacoast and marshes,
descendants of those who lived and
struggled in the open air and the
winds of the northern seas.
These conditions made for race Of
men and women physiologically and
temperamentally untitled to live in
heated rooms, crowded spaces or to dc
work where brain and Drawn are sec
ondary to mere automatic tasks.
Yet thousands of this blond type
have attempted to do these very
things, and what has been the re
suit? The death of the blond work
ers when forced to work alongside his
fellownEfns of an gsnsarely different
Facial origin the rranSaccustomed to
heat, to obedience, to centuries of self
content SO long as his simple food and
pleasures of mild kind were his
award. Yet, in this type of brunette
there exists brain and ambition equal
to the opposite type but in his blood
flow habits due to a different climate
and social conditions
Look around you and see the type of
man and woman working today in our
crowded Industrial centers. Bru-
nettes, eight out of ten. And this is
not because the Latin and other
southern peoples have rushed over
here in such quantities and through
cheapness driven out the hardy
= l. atr,
pheric conditions of confinement and
shop rules have killed off many of the
blends, brought physical deterioration
to others. and caused those of initia-
tive instincts to seek .cengenial fields
for living and ambition.
The cities contain and hold the bru-
nette type, for the blond cannot stand
confinement. This race needs the
open air, the freedom of action hand
ed down by ancestors. the northern
air and stimulating winds. PUT a man
or woman Of this race satl stitching
clothes, making cigars, orsany con-
fining work, and it is but short time
before he Or. shss sueeugsbs to the in
furious tasks.
1t is in the hospitals we see the
different effects upon the blond and
brunette girl; or Woman. The blond
girl who is working M cr6wded shops
or factories reaches, at any early age.
a state of nervoushess.lof discomfort,
of a really dangerous condition as re-
CARDS her morals. Her whole Unborn
nature rebels, is dissatisfied; she I'M
consciously Graves the freedom of her
ancestors She scannot, live upon the
food which satisfies her brunette sister
worker, nor can she keep pink cheeks
working or sleeping in rooms where
the fresh and cool air seldom circu-
lates Her lungs are relatively
larger; for centuries her ancestors
needed the full capacity of pure air
and freedom of action.
: It is, the same with, her brothers.
Lo9k over, any deep water vessel and
you will find the crew and officers to
be big blond men Take our own lit
tie army. II is mostly made up of
blue-eyed and blond-haired men.
Nothing but the farms. the seas the
outdoor charge of gangs of workers.
win save the blond type of men in
this country, Factory or shop work
will kill Or physically ,rFin them. No
race goes quicker TO tbe limit of dis
sipation when once en- the road than
the blond type; no race, is so hardy,
temperate and moral when living I'M
der the conditions they were born for.
The seas, the farm, the army, the
outdoor supervision of workers; ex-
ecutive positions where initiative and
strong actions are necessary, are all
shut out from the average woman or
girl.
Yet the instincts to be free in air
and acts, to have good food and plenty
if it, are so fixed in the blond type
that, fight as she will, the girl leaves
the home, the shop. the factory life
for life that gives her these things.
There are SO many of these racial
traits and instincts to be taken Into
consideration when advising our young
women who have to enter the world OF
strife, that not until they are well un-
derstood can we bring about a better
social adjustment aud avoid illness
and distress. 49, r~7se
II q girl is, Of. the decided type Of
blonde and becomes nervous, dissatis-
fled with her work and finally ill., 1t is
NOT necessary to see the. doctor, Look
into her kind of work If it. is of the
closely combining kind; IL she is work.
ing among hundred of girls of diff
ferent racial type, take her away at
once don't wait until She runs away
the true vikings instinct for free
dom, and you will generally find that
all the matter with her is her kind of
work. Such girl needs work amid
congenial surroundings anu among
men and women of her own type of
inheritance.
No girl of the distinct blond type
should enter factory work or be where
the majority are brunettes of total
~ different ethnic type. She cannot
be happy or well living under condi-
tons antagonistie to those handed
down to her for centuries
The Juvenile courts, tho hospitals;
yet, the streets, will show a. predoml-
nance of the blond type Of little girls
who have rebelled against a life In
shops and factories-aird they are not
to be blamed - New York American.