Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1916 — WILL THE BLONDS DISAPPEAR? [ARTICLE]

WILL THE BLONDS DISAPPEAR?

“If you aro a' 1 - blond, you belong to (lie best people in the world, but it’s all over with you! Your forebears committed the inistake of intermixing with inferior brunettes, and as a result the great qualities of tlie blond race, which gave the world tiie highest type of culture, have been sadly undermined. The complete triumph of the brunette is '•fore-shadowed, especially in the United States.” This is tho gloomy future ahead of blonds, according' to Madison (’.rant in “The Passing of a Great Race.” Th© yellow and red. heads were doomed anyway, bnt the European war has hastened their eventual extermination. For, says Mr. Grant, it is (tie Nordic ldond clement that tends to make the greatest sacrifices in war From earliest times, the Nordics invariably came as conquerors into the countries of brunettes, only to allow the brunettes to conquer them by assimilation. Blonds were born to be aristocrats and rulers. And when certain brutal necessities forced them from time to time to wield the ax and follow tho plow, they simply could not endure the strain. So the blue-eyed Nordic giant of tin- North died, and left the field to liis inferior, the native brunette. Mr. Grant doesn’t leave a molecule of hope for American blonds either. What with the immigrants and t lie negroes, and the loss of the best, breeding stocks in the civil war, fair hair hasn’t a chance of surviving another century. Lawrence Huyler of Yulan, New York, age 00, is learning to operate an automobile, whieh was giyen to him by his son as at birthday present. It. is the first automobile lie ever rode in.