I don't know about the blond as the only beauty. There certainly are stereotypes of beautiful Mexican women in the Southwest (I am thinking long ago), beautiful black or red-headed Irish women, beautiful Italian women....Creole certainly...some groups are left out to be sure...until WWII probably Japanese women for example .....the blond was very likely off limits for religious reasons to many people and they would have probably been off limits for her..I bet she the stereotype was a farm girl with Danish ancestry and was a Lutheran....and yes she was very pretty and probably healthier than a lot of the women living in tenemants and catching TB and fighting off rats...And she the blond Danish girl it is said escaped from poverty faster than others because she was willing to be a maid and some like the Irish it is said just did not want to go that route, although my ancesters did. and many did...mg