The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 28, 1933, Page 8

TTT UT} NUTT HT TT a, mM SOT tesa mM 2 IM MIATTINT me o Nortu, Youne@ BLonp. By Richard H. Syring F YOU are one of those natural blond creatures with blue eyes whom gentle- men are supposed to prefer, be sure to take your sunlight in moderation. In fact, if you wish to maintain good health, it’s not a bad idea to go north, young blond, go north—away to a clime where the sun is obscured many days by rain, fog and mist! This is the note of warning by Dr. Sceva Bright Laughlin, professor of economics and sociology at Willamette University at Salem, Oregon. For many years Dr. Laughlin has been making a study of blonds. Today he has many theories, many of which he can back up with figures and facts. “As early as 1895 the Anthropological So- ciety of Munich began publishing material on blond people,” Dr. Laughlin says. ‘‘They de- clared: ‘That pigmentation of man was evolved for the purpose of excluding the dangerous ac- tinic or short rays of light which destroy living protoplasm.” “All anthropologists agree that the original primitive man originated in Asia. Those who went south developed more pigmentation to withstand the hot sun. Thus we have our Negro and dark- skinned people of the tropics. This acclimati- zation, of course, didn’t occur in a few years, but in many thousands. G6MMHE reason a white man is white and a ‘4. negro is black is due to the excessive pigmentation of the negro. A negro has many more pigments per square inch of skin than any other race. Hence, he can probably withstand heat much better than anyone else, since the only function of pigmentation is to protect the nervous system from too much sunshine.” So, according to the western doctor's theory, the blond man or woman who wishes to stay healthy had better be careful about staying out in the sun, This will include Jean Harlow, the blond goddess of motion picture fame, and many of her fair-haired sisters, who, during leisure hours, bask in the hot sun along the seashore. It light-haired actresses persist in exposing their bodies to the sunshine, Hollywood in time may be without any blond actresses! Because Mr. Sunshine will take his toll! And you can’t fool old man sunshine, Dr. Laughlin says. Movie stars who become blonds overnight through the aid of drug store prep- arations needn't worry! Their hair may be blond, he says, but the pigmentation of the skin remains the same. “There is ample proof today of what is hap- pening in southern California,” Dr. Laughlin declares. “People from the east, north and middle west go to southern California for their health. They recklessly expose their bodies to hours of sunshine. ecnek the first year or two they feel greatly im- proved. They will write home and tell how good they feel. ‘The sunghine has had a stimu- lating effést upon their nervous systems. “But, unless they are ex- treme brunets, with enough pig- mentation to withstand the sun’s rays, after two years or more many of them suffer breakdowns. “Life insurance companies figures prove this. Except for one year, some southern Cali- fornia city has had the highest suicide rate for many years. Many of them, of course, are the consequence of nervous breakdowns caused by too much sunshine!” Blond people originated nea: the Baltic sea, where rain, fog and mist hide the sun’s rays on many days, the Willamette pedagog declares. The only section of the United States anything similar to the Baltic sea region is the Pacific North- west, he says, where rainy and cloudy days are prevalent. “The northwestern _ states are best suited for blond people because of the absence of a burning-hot sun,” the Oregon savant believes. “Consequently, the blond has less to fear. Dr. G. C. Bellinger, in charge of the tuberculosis control in Oregon, has figures which prove that there are less violet-rays in a year’s time in the northwest than in any other section of the United States.” While the northwest is best-suited for blonds, there really is no section of the United States actually located in the blond belt, Dr. Laugh- lin says. HOTNPCC 0 M A Go Norrtu:! ee Baltic sea is located about 55 degrees latitude,” he explains. “Los Angeles and Hollywood are about 35 degrees latitude; 20 degrees farther south than where blonds originated. “Now here’s a good way to find out whether blonds or brunets live in the same latitude with the southern California cities. Follow the 35- degree latitude mark around the globe and what countries do you find? You'll come upon the Sahara desert, the Arabian desert, northern India and southern Persia. “Did you ever hear of a blond native in any of those countries? I think not. They are al! dark-skinned. They have to be, to withstand the heat. Parts of Japan and China are in the same latitude. Never a blond Japanese or Chinese!” Dr. Laughlin has lived in hot climates. In 1912-1913 he taught at the Friends’ Boys School at Ram Allah, 10 miles north of Jeru- salem. He explored caves and had plenty of opportunity to examine the natives. And he never found a blond Egyptian, or anything even approaching one. He did see, he says, a red-haired Arabian, whose ancestry probably could be traced back to some philandering foreign sailor. AQ? mentioning red-heads. Did you know that a red-haired person is the difference between a brunet and a blond? That's what the Willamette doctor says: and that makes Clara Bow, the red-head of the films, just o generation or two away from becoming a nat- ural blond! “Dr. Adolphe Bloch, the anthropologist, wrote: ‘In fact, the blond races begin by having the hair red before it becomes blond, just as they may have eyes that are green before they are blue or gray,’ Dr. Laughlin points out. “This proves, then, that many of our blonds today may have had red-haired ancestors.” To blonds: who desire fair-naired children STELLATE RCL a with blue eyes, Dr. Laughlin sug- gests that they marry blond men. To marry a dark-haired man, might result in brunet-haired chil- dren, since blondness is a weaker Tean Harlow, filmland’s blond goddess, had better not treat herself to fat too much sunshine if she wants to stay healthy, says Dr. Laughlin. “We know that blondness of hair, face or eyes is a recessive trait,” he explains. ‘Subject to the Mendelian law of inheritance, brown-eyedness is a domi- nant trait. Thus the inter-marriage of a blond and a brunet will generally result in brunet and dark-eyed offspring. The blond recessive traits disappear. “This is probably why we find so few blonds in the southern part of Europe. The blond Vikings of Norway invaded many countries, but the blondness soon disappeared through marriage with brunets, in the succeeding gener- ations, Clara Bow, the red-head of the films, who is just a generation or two away from becoming a natural blond! aS SM “¢PQUT the Mediterranean invaders certainly left their mark in the Baltic sea regions, “Who blackened the eyes of the Nordic peoples? Nobody else but the dark-skinned people of the Mediter- ranean sea regions! “Today we have many beautiful Irish girls and handsome men—black hair, blue eyes and a fair rosy complex- ion. Such characteristics are without a doubt the result of a union between Nordics and people from the Mediter- canean sea regions, “Maj. Charles E. Woodruff, doctor with the American troops in the Philip- pines during the Spanish-American War, has made some interesting observations of the effect of tropic sunlight on white men. “He tells of two Catholic priests who came to the islands. One was a blond; the other a brunet. The blond, evidently unable to withstand the sun’s rays, lived but a year and a half. The brunet priest put in 40 useful years on the islands. “Dr. Woodruff also believes that the blond type of man is, and always has been, the best sailor. He claims they are a maritime race. He offers the Scandinavian countries a: his proof. “WE know that the English have lived in India for more than 300 years, but not once in that time has any one family succeeded itself beyond the third generation. They either move back to England or die out. Churches . sending missionaries into the tropics now gener- ally pick on brunets because they can stand the heat better. “I have a blond girl in one of my classes whose father is a missionary in India. When in India in the summer this blond girl has to seek the highest and coolest mountains to escape the sun’s hot rays. Her father, she says, who is a brunet, gets along very comfortably in spite of the sunshine.” (Copyright, 1933, by EveryWeek Magazine—Printed in U. 8. A.) ATLL MAUL TA OOSUDUMOLVOUVUUTHVOTNNYE _ WEVITVOCHUNTIOUHNOenoveniey cm SMA EU SSN —s 5: Horace Greeley’s advice - to young men is paraphrased by this college professor who warns of the ill-effects of a too-sunny climate on the fair-haired sisterhood If you have blue eyes you are one person in 20. And you can almost gamble that your an- cestry had its beginning back in the regions of the Baltic sea, declares the western professor. Most of the people in the world are dark- eyed. The percentage is increased by the mil- lions of people in China, India and tropical countries. Your blue eyes, however, are almost sure proof that your grandparents, or great- great-grandparents, were blonds. “A blue-eyed person with dark hair is gen- crally the last bit of evidence that his fore- fathers were blonds,” Dr. Laughlin asserts. “Since blue-eyedness is part of blondness, the recessive traits are gradually disappearing through marriage with dark-eyed persons.” BE sparing in your praise of big-city blonds! Nine times out of ten their blondness is due to the quick working of chemicals. Because, as the Williamette professor points out, there is a natural tendency on the part of blond people to live in the country, where mountains and trees form natural shelter against the burning rays of the sun. While blonds naturally shun cities, they also are at extreme disadvantage on plains and prairies. You'll generally find them near the seacoast, where cloudy days are frequent. An excellent example of people with a great deficiency of pigmentation is the albino, says Dr. Laughlin. “Apparently there is no indication that blonds * are a species of albinos,” he declares. “We have no proof connecting the two. It seems that albinos are the result of a pathological condi- tion, The extreme cases have skin of milky color, very light hair, and eyes with a deep red pupil, with the-iris pink or blue.”” Are blonds more intelligent than brunets? Dr. Laughlin believes there is no evidence to prove any superior mentality on the part of blonds, And: speaking of the Nordics, Sweden is the world’s center for blondness, claims Dr. Laughlin. All of which must prove there is no question as to the nationality of the much- discussed Greta Garbo. HAUSA MANN TU TTT