BROWN-HAIRED AUSTRALIANS

Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 10287, 8 January 1917, Page 4

BROWN-HAIRED AUSTRALIANS

I RACIAL BLENDING PRODUCES I ' - TINT. ' ! Was it an effect of the' -sun or a true impression that, amongst the 15,000 State school children, and especially, the girls, who'took-part" in the display at the M.C.C. Ground recently, : brown, hair predominated? asks the iMelboua-ne Argus.. Certainly it seemed that there were very few blondes; that; jets were;an exception; and that. auburns. were a small percentage; while thousands could be cliaasiiied as light or. .dark browns. The interesti nig point : , arises,' if a closer examination; justified tbe analysis, has climate helped to . ciieato a standard hue ? ; :/ . f Opinions on this point were], sought from Collins Street physician?. One remarked .that it was extremely afoubtful that the brown tint Was thp result of climatic- condlitiorus. Changes and modifications'' of' physical attributes from environment, nutrition, and other influences were not .produced in hundreds of years, and in the comparatively short term of settlement in Australia, such a thing could hardly have occurred. It was more probable that it was the outcome of the 'blending of racial, attributes'in Australia's hetero-geneous population which would show results in a generation. .Probably that blending had almost eliminated the extreme ■ types, stueh as golden hair or jet black, and' created an intermediate or average type, which, was, perihaps, brown. Amongst the offspring of parents of black and red hair, for- instance, some of the children migOit have hair the colour of the mother's,' others would have the same strain ais the father, while tbe remainder would fee a blend of the two. It time this average colour would 'become more , general. Possibly it. stood in a: some- j wihat similar light to the iMendelian discoveries in plant and animal" hered- j ity. Another medicali practitioner 1 supported tbe theory that racial in- J ter-mixture, not tihe climate, had in-' fluenced the colour of hair; Scandinavians and Germane were the lighthaired people, and.the darker ' shades. were represented in our ancestors from England, Scotland and Ireland. ! Tbe sprinkling of tlie deep, Hack hah-.. of, Italy, Spain, : and! Portugal was negligible. „ Don't failto see the lovely Onepiece Dresses clearing at 9s lid at Court's, The Busy Corner.—Advt. A sure corrective for acidity of the 'stomach and at the same time a gentle aperient will be found in Sharland's Magnesia.—Advt. Washboards are a thing of the past. Every housewife now uses "No Rubbing Laundry Heln" for washing clothes clean without i.«jury to hands or clothes. Seven washings ls—Advt. - ,- ■-."'■■':. Heartburn and sick headache is re-, lieved' by ; Sharland'a' Magnesia;-— Advt. ■ ■".■:■■ ;•■ v