However, let us waste no time in philosophizing, but turn promptly to page 30 of the 320 fascinating paxes of this slender clearly-printed "thrill where is immediately foun something that should attract the attention of even the dumbest girl typist or the most dunce-like hob-Bledehoy, "Hair and Eyes Shov Numerous Gradations of Colour, as does the Skin," Is it exaggeration when one suggests that such a legend on page 80, for example. seems certainly of more than passing interest io the average young person? Lo listen:
Among races without any admixture of red or fair strains, blends arouse a curiosity in which there is an unde tone of dislike; and thirty or fort Years ago, up country in Japan, a tall, red-haired Englishwon was dri danger of being mobbed.
The Mediterraneans are predominantly dark, but from time immemorial ey have been diluted with fair strains, with the result that throughout the western world blendness is suffciently common to escape "freaklshness" while sufficiently be rare to deemed a beautiful asset Tt will be remembered that when, at the end of the sixth century, Pope Gregory the Great saw some tall bland Angles exposed for sale in the Slave-market, he exclaimed would be angels. not Angles, if hey were Christians," In men, angels were usually depicted as bland:
"There is an element of sexual fetishism in the attraction exerted by fair hair and blue eyes: and in all ages women especially courtesans) have known that what we now call an appeal to the subconscious (the "Sex Appeal" of the films) makes "zentiemen prefer blondes."
Hence im all ages the pedlars of cosmetics have driven a good trade in means for producing artificial blondes, but have found the eyes of dark-eyed Customers more difficult to "improve." ^f gentlemen prefer blondes, they marry brunettes." said the cynic: and there is no warrant for the belief that either men or women with fair hair and blue eyes have a better, or 3. worse, character than brunettes. "rose who fancy otherwise must be incapable ut the Jens of Credence than the contrary assertion of Woltmann and Hitler Earlier Days The late Professor Magnus Hirsch-feld was born in 1868 at Colberg on the Baltic coast, where his father was medical office of health. The families on both sides, paternal and maternal, had been seitied in Pomerania for centuries, but whence they came thither is unknown. Hirschfeld grew to Young manhood during a period when the German Jews enjoyed their blossoming season, most of their legal and many of their social disabilities having been removed.
As a medical student he studied in Berlin under the guidance of Vir-chow and Clu Bois-Reymond. pen ning for his doctorial degree a thesis on Influenza and its Pathological Effects upon the Nervous System, in 1892, and in 1896, when he was not yet thirty, he published his first opusculum upon the topic which was to bring him world-wide fame and a good deal of undeserved obloquy. This was entitled "Sappho und Sokrates, Wie erklärt sich die Liebe der Manner und Frauen zu Personen des eigenen Geschlechts?" His great work, "Die Homosexualität des
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