Blonde or Brunette?
A French savant is busy fin %n elaborate inquiry into the relative predominance of blonde?; and brunettes, which-among other things will go to show once more that AlsaceLorraine is really France. It is in this \vay; As everyone knows, in the Germanic F&pe tb'e bjopde type preponderates, and such is found tp be the path in the greater part °f territorial Germany. Jlldudee are ipost preponderant in Schleswig-Holstein, and least in Alsace-Lorraine. In the former the proportion of out-and-out blondes (of persons, that is, with fair hair, fair eyes, and light skin) is 43 per cent;', in AlsaceLorraine it is only 18 per cent. The Alsatians are brunette as compared with the Germans, although fair as compared with the French. M. Topinard, the savant who is on this track, is now pursuing the investigations further, and hopes soon to be able tovturpish $ complete census of blonde and brunette. ' n I
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Evening Star, Issue 7332, 3 October 1887, Page 2
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153Blonde or Brunette? Evening Star, Issue 7332, 3 October 1887, Page 2
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