THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE BLONDE.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 89, 28 February 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE BLONDE.

It has been asserted that there has been a gradual decrease of blondes in Germany. Almost 11,000,000 school children were examined in Germany, Austria, and Belgium, and the result showed that Switzerland has only 11*10, Austria, 19-79, and Germany 31-80 per cent, of pure blondes. Thus the country, which since the days of ancient Borne has been proverbially known as the home of yellow hair, has to-day only 32 pure blondes in 100, while the average of pure brunettes is 14 per cent., and in some regions rises as high as 25 per cent. The 53 per cent, of the mixed type are said to be undergoing a transformation into pure brunettes. Dr. Beddoe, in England, has collected a number of statistics, which seem to point in. the same direction. Among 726 women he examined he found 369 brunettes and 357 blondes. Of the brunettes he found that 78 per cent, were married, while of the blondes only 68 per cent, were married. Thus it would seem that the brunette has ten chances of getting married in England to a blonde's nine. In France a similar view has been put forth by M. Adolph de Oandolle. M. de Gandolle found that when both parents have eyes of the same dolour 88 par cent, inherit this colour. But it is a curious fact that more females than. males have black or brown eyes to the proportion of 45 to 43. It seems that .with different coloured eyes in the two parents 53 per cent, follow the father in being dark-eyed, and 55 per cent, follow the mother in being darkeyed, An increase of 5 per cent, of dark eyes in each generation must tell in the course of time. WELLrgHAPED WOMEN. Here is an interesting extract from an article in the New York Mercury : — Art should always be based on nature, and no art is true which does 'not take nature for its model. A perfect, symmetrical, healthy woman of five feefc five inches in height must comply with the following standard : She should be 1381 b at the least, and could stand up to 101 b more without injury to health or artistic perfection. The distance between the tips of her two middle fingers when the arms are extended should! be exactly the same as the height, or ten times the length of her hand, or seven and a half times the length of her foot, or five times the diameter of her chest from one arcupit to the other. The distance from the^junction of the thighs to the ground sh&uld be the same as from the former point to the top of the head. The knee should be exactly midway from the junction of the thighs to the bottom of the heel. The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger should be the same as from the elbow to the middle of the chest. From the top of the head to the chin, with the head posed naturally, should be the same as from the level of the chin to the armpits, or from the heel to the, tip of the largest toe. The bust of a woman of the height named. should be 43in. measurement over the arms, and the waist 24in. The upper part of the arm should be -from 13£ to 14in. and the wrist 6in. -The ankle should be 6in. the calf of the leg 14in. and the thigh 25in. Any woman of the height mentioned who has these measurements can congratulate heiself on having as perfect a form as the Creator ever made,. Of course the proportions vary with the height.