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Show ARB BLONDS TO DISAPPEAR Probability That In the Future We Shall All Be Brunettes. BBB Tho somowhat startling statement has been made that the bluo eyed, golden haired and light comploxloned BB variety of tho human rnco is in tha BBb course of extinction, and thnt, within WB a tow moro generations, blonds aro B likely to becomo so raro In tho world's BBb population that thoy may bo lookod BB upon as curiosities, somowhat as al. BBh blnos nro to-day. Tho blond typo has been so often chosen by artists and poots to roprcscnt their noblest con- BBa coptlons of human beauty that no one B can regard oven tho baro suggestion of Its extinction without dismay, Bfl Moreover, somo of tho world's great. Bfl est races and many of Its most mas. Bfl tcrful personalities havo bolongcd to this typo, nnd Its admirers havo some. tlmo3 gono so far as to aver that light BBb comploxlons, nnd In particular light colored oyes, aro tho favored llvory oj Efl tho highest genius. This Is undoubtedly an oxtremo and untonnblo claim, yet it cannot bo do. B nlcd that history shows an oxtraor-dlnary oxtraor-dlnary number of men and women o( tho first rank In all tho hlgbor fields of Intellect who possessed tho charac-torlstlo charac-torlstlo marks of the blond, and this BJ not only In countries whoro tho light BH typo prevails, but also in lands Ukq Italy, whero the gonoral comploxlon o tho population is dark. Success. |