Morning journal and courier., 1889-11-04

any OF them. For instance, there are Jewish
women In whom the aquiline peculiarity of
the nose ls more than counterbalanced by
fne, dark eyes, oval outlines of face and
beautifully curving lips. The highest type
of beauty, 30 far as relates to form, is doubt
less found In combination of straight nose,
oval face and small mouth. Whence came,
for instance, the hooked nose that is the
most striking characteristic of the Jews and
portion Of the Arabs2 Did the Semitic
branch of humankind-that Is the Jews. the
Chaldeans, the Tyrians and the Arabs =
descend lineally from some particular species
Of Darwinian ape, or was the physical
speciality the result of Some wholesale scrim-
mage at some prehistoric Donnybrook fair,
Tie displaced cartilage being duly transmitted
in the line of heredity. There is another
supposition that even a Berkeley scientist
need not regard with scorn. After the evo-
luton of man and before the differentiation
of the Semitic branch, the fashion of thrust
ing fishbone through the cartilage under
what we now call the bridge may have pre-
vailed among that portion of humanity liv-
ing by the summer sea, where fshbones were
easily obtained. This style not being
agreeable to their neighbors, they were
driven from their abodes into the desert,
where they founded Nineveh and Babylon
and began writing authentic history. Fish
bones were no longer to be had in sufficient
quantity, but the elevation of the bridge of
the nose had by this time become fixed
fact-that is, hereditary-and subsequent
centuries have not been able to eradicate 1t.
The high cheek bones seem to have branohed
of from the round faced type. and as soon
as they wers differentiated sufficiently to be
noticed they excited such an aversion among
their next of kin that they were driven of
into the regions of cold, and darkness adja-
cent to the North pole. The very long faces
were driven into the less desirable regions of
the North, and the pug noses and thick lips
into the heart of the Dark Continent, where
it was thought the unhealthy climate would
make an end of them, which is far from
having besn the case. The high cheek bones
having been driven into Siberia, expanded
toward the West, begot the Laplanders and
Finlanders, and transmitted a portion of
their popularity to the Swedes, though not
enough to spoil the good looks Of one of the
best looking people of the North. The most
exaggerated features of the type are seen
among the Aoneols. Light sdmixtures are
observable among other races in various latt-
tudes. The round-faced type seems to be
the one to which the world is most indebted
for the propagation of the different forms of
beauty. The Italians, an uncommonly
handsome people, especially in the center
and south of the peninsula, are at present Its
best representative; what there Is best and
most peculiar in the personal beauty of Spain
and the south of France comes from the
same source. It Ia not the type which OOH
noisseurs regard as absolutely the best, but
1t produces the best by admixture with the
longer faces of the North. 1t has produced
the very handsome and manly oval or mode
rately elongated facial outlines that we find
in the north of France, in England, and even
in America, united with dark eyes, dark
hair, and often with a dark complexion.