HEROINFS OF FICTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2076, 27 October 1885, Page 4

HEROINFS OF FICTION.

Accoiuhnu t<> .1 -t iti-u u hn"!Mi litoi.u ■■ g. ntloinan, 110 h.i-i bi'( n iuakm n ' >omn in vostlgitiom into th<* htlinn |»ul»h-. ! u d f"i the yeai ending Much 'M, I^">, of tU h ■lmnc-t pnrti v>iml, I!?- nil 1 d -iCiibcd i b! >ii<l<m, while l'K) were biunctte-i. <) llu-so ">!>2 lulii's, 137 were beautitul women 271 win 1 in, mud to the nn'ii <>f tli' n ( L >ie w hile thuty were unfoitun ito I'liouijh to 111 1 I) >unil m wedlock to the wurng _m.in, the n in uudei h.i\ in.,' t itlu'i died bcfoie m inrig'' or lemainud single. Tho heroines, this writer finds are im )n living >.'icatly 111 hi-.iltli, .uid rlo not do ii' eirly al-ina 1 - in prcuous yeais, idthnu^li on Munition h iti!l in the lead among fatal lnaludieH to which thoy succumb. They an <ilso found to marry .v few jeai» oailici tli vi foimerly. Tlio jier-tonal clurinß of the heroine* include 1000 .ilmoned-shapod eyes and 7')2 shell-hke ears. Of the eyes 612 hive h.id a dreamy look, while eightysk have Hashed fire. Kyes of brown and blue aie in tho ascendant. There h.is .iho been u hr^e increase in the heroines who possess dimples. Fi\ohundred and two wero blessed with sisters, and 396 had brothers. In forty-seven cases mothcre had figuii'd as heroines, with 112 children between them, nuigui£ fioin one calendar month to eight year*, seventy-one of these children having boon rescued from a watery grave. Throe of the husbands of the-<o mu nod heroines ha\e been discovered to bo big.uin^t-', and smen h.ue found s\ note on the die-siug loom t.ible that explained " evi-iythittLf '— Vth ■kuiiiii.