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The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], Fair hair and dark hair. (search)
t fair hair was then much less common among her country men and country women than she remembered in her youth. Dr. John Beddoe took the pains to collect some statistics on this subject. He gives particulars respecting the color of the hair anvalence of dark hair in England is due to what — slightly varying the phrase which Dr. Darwin has rendered so familiar--Dr. Beddoe calls "conjugal selection." It should be noted, too, that Dr. Beddoe's figures established not only that, speakingDr. Beddoe's figures established not only that, speaking generally, a dark haired woman has (at least in the west of England) a much better chance of getting married than a fair-haired woman — the proportion of fair-haired women who failed to find husbands being to that of dark-haired women who similarly his observation, twenty-two per cent. were single, while of the women with black hair, only eighteen per cent. were so. Dr. Beddoe had some reason for supposing that dark hair has been on the increase in England from as far back as the Norman conques