BLONDES ARE DECREASING.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 193, 21 July 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

BLONDES ARE DECREASING.

Tiiat blondes are decreasing i:i number is one of tlie latest eonciusions of science, and a lend in:; r.n----thropologis-t lccently expros< a 'l the view that at no very di-if.w-; date the human race will have darkened to such an exient that people of the blonde type will he regarded as curiosities. It is a staiiling development, but is all in tiie direction of progress, people of fair complexions ;i re more liable to sickness than those of the brunette order. .Modern life in crowded citios makes a severe tax on Nature's resources, and in endeavouiing to build i;;> a disease-re.-isti?!g race ::!ie is forced to eliminate. tii" blondes, with their interior stamina From an artistic standpoint the f.u l is, of course, to ho rogrotied, for golden hair and blue eyes have been the delif'it of poet.; and painters I'm ;ikcs. Tii.it the t i i-~- gradually di-appearing, however, the« seems to he i*;> oi.ubt, lor many specific instances have bran er.te ! cspcieby in Anient.a. of the ! shy emigrants from eo'inl rica •. i.ere blendes aba ted ol' the (iistiaclive completion and hair and eve colours of their am • •tors, tie typ j darkening with each genciation.