Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1880-07-10
Hygiene KeversiOn.

Qualities in animals which are the re-
sult of breeding tend to die out-that is,
the animal rcverts to his earlier and
longer established characteristics. The
mustangs of Mexico are descendants of
.lomcsticatcd horses, which, having wan
dcrcd from the Spaniards, gradually re-
ycrtcd to their primitive type. The
shorter the time in which new quail
tiles have been cultivated, the stronger
the rcvcrsiOnal tendency.
Ii is somewhat the same hygienically.
A person would have perfectly healthy
organism if the sum of the forces ope-
rating within his ancestors had always
been on the side of physiological sound
ness.
IL such a one were attacked with dis
ease from some external causes, his sys-
tom would rapidly eliminate the dis
order and revert to its wOnted state.
This tendency to revert is weakened in
proportion to the number of ancestors in
whom morbid causes have operated. II
the tendency to consumption, for in
stance. has been in family for many
generations, it has become an accumu-
lated force, and can he extirpated from
the family blood only by nnremitting
efforts, kept up through several genera
tions. If it has come to one from out
side causes simply, the tendency is
weak, and is easily kept in allegiance,
or it may be wholly killed out within
single lifetime.
AS general thing, the sick tend to
get well: for the average of inherited
vital forces exceeds that of the morbid.
The vital forces thus prepOnderate from
age to age because the less vigorous die
early, leaving those to perpetuate the
race in whom these forces have accumu-
lated for numberless generations.
Where morbid qualities inherited from
one line may be strong they may be held
in check by superior vital forces in
herited from the other line, but these
qualities may reappear in grandchild,
or, even lcaping over two generations,
in great grandchild. This is known as
atavism. Youths Companion.
People Who Live Near the Pole
The Rome correspondent of the Phil
adelphia bulletin, speaking of the Gin
kci. a remarkable people discovered by
the Swedish explorers of the North Pole
region, says: The people found there
were not precisely savages-they were
clothed (roughly, perhaps)-but they
were clothed in skins of reindeer or seal.
Their costume might not perhaps suit
Partisan taste, but it was adaptable to
their cline 1t is composed of reindeer
skin stockings lined with eider-down, REIN
deer or sealskin boots reaching to the
knees. and under these, again, reindeer
of sealskin trousers, over which are worn
in extra cold weather other trousers lined
with fur. And then trlnic, coat, OF
blouse of the same materials reached to
the knees, and, according to the weather,
several of these are worn one over the
other. For the head they wear cap to
match the rest of the charming costume,
and this cap is tied under the chin like a
baby's cap. Finally they wear over their
chests kind of bib of sealskins, which
bib they draw over their faces, when the
air threatens to bite their noses.
The very fashionable people Of the
country fastcn tails of animals to the
edges of their coats. This is to show
YOU that they are rich, rs their riches
consist in reindeer, some families posses.
sing as many rs 100, 900 of these animals.
The ladies wear the same costume as the
gentlemen, which gives them a strange
and awkward walk. However, as little
distinction, they wear their hair in two
long plaits at the side of each cheek, and
their neck and back are bare. 1t seems
that the cold has less effect on them thar
on their lords. 1t is true that when they
have young children they carry them or
their backs, and that shelters them
Both men and women are short of stature
but stout and wonderfully strong, as they
can walk for miles with burdens on then
backs which We Europeans could no,
even lift Their faces are large and
broad and they have no foreheads. h
this the women would be quite the fashion
in Europe, where the ladies do all they
can to conceal their foreheads.