Show in every country where scientific observations have been made niada tho the fair complexion blonde proves to bo be lying dying out it will vanish altogether ether unless the decline is ia checked everywhere races tile tho conclusion is the same a dark type supersedes supercedes the fair A few years ago dying the british medical journal raised objections out to sonic onto of tile arguments advanced but ut nl at the close it mournfully admitted that tho fair leair so much beloved by poets and artists seems to bo be encroached upon and by E 0 MINNICK even replaced by that of darker hue it is ia a inclan melancholy choly prospect for the estlie esthetic tic even peoples people 9 like the spanish and italians with whom black locks are tile rule conceive celestial beings as fair but I 1 t apprehend that consequences might follow even graver than the loss of beauty it cannot be an accident that nearly all those conquering 0 races which were also colonizers have been fair perhaps there is only one indisputable exception the arab for of the tribes which furnished a large proportion of the roman ionian armies in the alie earliest time some were blonde doubtless as tile the tc so it was with the spanish conquerors one may inay see flaxen 1 hair blue eyes and even red cheeks in costa rica segovia and ald I 1 elsewhere 1 not infrequently to this day but set against the dark colonizing people which might bo be found the multitude of bauls Teu tons slavs greeks scandinavians english 0 in europe persians medes indian aryans afghans of asia the preponderance of tho the fair is overwhelming mr le discusses tile qua qualities lipics of each nationality represented in the french foreign legion and there were many iio he finda himself unable to set one above another for courage but bui he proceeds there was one class of men far more lively far less given to grumbling and altogether possessed of more brilliancy and resilience of temperament than the others this was the men of fair complexion pl exion all fair haired blue eved soldiers seemed able to withstand bad conditions of livin living 6 more easily and better than their dark complex complexioned ionel comrades if this complexion bo be declining now and vanishing those who fancy that eliat the aryan is played out may inay find there a striking confirmation of their views the fact is assured at iny any rate and the cause of it ascertained the constitution indicated by light liblit hair and eye is not adapted to the conditions of town life |