WHY FAIR FOLK SUCCEED

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 9002, 26 January 1906, Page 3

WHY FAIR FOLK SUCCEED

A boy who has been derisively called "Tow-head" in the playground by some .other boy does not soon, forget it. Of course, his tOTin.en.tor has dark hair and, he must remain speechless or find some other way of replying to this unpleasant allusion to his conspicuous tawny hair. If he only knew as much about\it as &ome. of the students of tfoe races of mankind, and had the courage of his convictions, he could retort, in a crushing fashion. According to some ethnolygistSj his hair is the badge of the dominant type in the ■world's history. Blondes and the blonde type have been demonstrated by some ethnologists to be possessed of more brain, and to be the most aggressive of mankind. Evolved in j the north-western part of Europe, in the '• neighborhood of the Baltic Sea, only tke strongest have survived. Obliged to use \ their wits in order to live, they developed j brain capacity. One man, curious to find out whether blondes or brunettes predominated among the famous people of .England, studied their complexions carefully, and found that more than two-thirds of the political reformers and agitators, three-fifths of the . sailors, and more than half of the scientists, the soldiers, the artists, the poets, the members, of the royal family, the lawyears, and the created peers and their sons, were blondes. From bis observation lie concluded that "an excess of fairness prevails among the men of restless and ambitious temperament—the sanguine, energetic men, the men who' easily dominate their fellows, and who get, on in. life, the men who recruit the aristocracy, and who doubtless z largely form the plutocracy." Artisans, peasants, the men of religion, "whose mission in life is to practise and preach are- > signation to a higher will/* fetors and thinkers, these, He obseoyed, were more apt to be dark than light -ia complexion. The fair man tended to/ be "bold, energetic, «cHess and domineering, 1111 11" 1 whole ' x the darkjnaa tendetLto be "resigned and ' religious and imitative, .yet .fiighly inteHiarnnf. " . I. - -.