The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-21

and certainly neltnef can pc 1uStln0Q by
priori reasoning. Boys and girls alike
they wish to succeed in life, that is. to earn
independent incomes, or because they have
the instinct of students, and never think of
their own looks in connection with the mat
ter. Some women may, little later on-the
Unborn desire to attract acting as spur and
kind by superiority Of another, as it also
urged that unusually ugly person, John
Wilkes, but they begin their course before
personal vanity has any decided power. As
3 matter of fact, in both sexes, successful
students have been occasionally noted for
and Lady Mary Montagu) and for ex-
ceptional absence Of form, (take Socrates,
and the philosopher who was said-unjustly,
as we think-to be his own missing link
The truth we take to be that the modern
world almost unconsciously confounds ex-
cause intelligence in most cases produces
expressiveness-there are marked excep-
tions-therefore there must be some init
mate relation between beauty and intelli-
gence, or even much more remarkable err
For, the possession Of knowledge.
"There is, however, no such law, and no
reason why there shout be. the power of the
brain and the shape of the bones and flesh
being almost entirely disconnected. Beauty
is a result of race, of circumstances, such
as personal freedom and mode of life, and
of continuous diet, not of intelligence, and
still less Of the acquisition Of knowledge,
which latter can only benefit the individual,
whose features are fixed past serious change
before study is even commenced. A man
or woman inherits his or her face, and
mental habitude, though it may greatly at
feet its meaning, can no more alter Its
shape than assiduous training can turn a
smooth fox terrier into the wiry kind from
Airedale.
1T may even be doubted, strange as manv
will deem the assertion, whether continuous
education will produce beauty, whether the
growth of intelligence will even in ages
yield the physical result which we notice
the authors of Utopias always assume, as
il it were scientifically demonstrated con-
sequence Of the new society. The most
beautiful black race in Africa, tribe in
Nyassaland, on whose looks even mission
aries grow eloquent. and who are
statutes, are as ignorant as fishes, and
thuogh they have discovered the use of
fire have never risen to the conception OF
clothes of any kind. The Otaheitan, when
discovered, was as uncultured as the
Papuan now is; yet the former approached
does to positive deformity. The keenest
race in Asia, and, as all who know them
assert, the strongest in character, the Chi
nese, is decidedly the ugliest of semi-civi-
LIKED mankind, while the Hindu, if suffi-
GENTLY fed. is, even when as ignorant as an
animal, almost invariably handsome.
1.-The Circassians, who know nothing, and
are rather stupid than exceptionally inte lii
gent, are physically faultless race, far
more so than the Germans, who, though the
best trained people in the world. display a
marked cOmmOnness of feature, as If the
great sculptor Nature had used good clay,
but had taken no trouble about the model
inn Soma of tho vorv ah1oaf anon fhon,
belong to the fat-nosed, pufy-cheeked,
clipped variety. The keenest race in
the world, and probably the one most sus-
ceptible of culture, the Jew, presents few
types of beauty. being usually at once
hSok.nosed and a; 1, aabbyeh h though in
ally throws out transcendent examples.
The tanned Arabs Of Egypt, who seem to
possess poor brains, and, of course.
have no education, are often extraordina-
rily handsome; while in 1860 the grand
est head in Asia, head which every artist
Arab horse dealer who, outside his trade,
knew nothing. No modern men of culture
would pretend, in mere perfectness of form,
to rival the old Greek athlete, who intel
lectually were probably animals, or the
Berserkars, who were for the most part only
which has been cultivated for a thousand
years, seldom produces beautiful men. and
still schooner beautiful women; most Prin-
ceSses, though sometimes dignihed, have
been marked, as to features, by certain
ordinariness often wanting in the poor, and
especially the poor of certain districts, like
Devon in England and Aries and Marseilles
in France.
"Devon is no better taught than Suffolk,
but mark the difference in peasant forms.
In the last century the ablest men in Europe
were remarkable for certain supertiuity of
flesh, of which Gibbons face is the Uest
known and most absurd examples; and in
our own time, lntellect-even hereditary in
tellect-is constantly found dissoclated
from good looks, and even from distinction,
some of the ablest men being externally
heavy and gross. and some of the ablest
women marked by an indefnitness of cheek
and chin as if they had been carved by the
Tennyson without turning round, but
Browning would have passed unnoticed in
any English or Austrian crowd. The air
Of physical refinement, which is what
continuous culture should should give, is
precisely the an air .n, Which is s. often
also in many aristocratic families. Indeed,
= though caste must mean more or less hered-
| itary culture. it is doubtful if it secures
beauty, It does not in the royal houses
and in a regiment, though an officer or two
will probably stand first, the proportion of
6pleuO1O men WILL O0 lOuAO SAC0wOA 0AAOAk
the non-commissioned than the commits
stoned officers.
"Why not? just as no man can by taking
thought add cubit to his stature, 80 no ex-
tent of culture, even il continued for gem
erations. can make straight hair wave, or
reduce high cheekbones, or cut away a
hanging lower lip, OF refine that most fire.
quent of drawbacks, q cheek without con-
tour. We might as well say that it would
alter color, which, as far az evidence can
prove, is independent of everything,
whether mental or physical in influence.
except possibly-and that az yet is only
guess-of ages of hereditary starvation.
ut is not, perhaps, TO the injury Of the
world that the effects Of culture should be
thus limited. We rather dread the spirit
lot caste as an operating force, believing
that it tends to segreRating exclusive
ness. and already We see that the world is
dividing itself into two Glasses, those who
speak with the trained voice and those WHO
do not. the members of which instantly
yecognize each other, even in the dark, and
have very little in common. II the Gull
tured were likewise the beautiful, and the
|sneultivated the ugly. ths queen would in