New-York tribune., 1890-08-05
CULTURE AND BE1UTI.
WHAT MAKL5 BEAUTY.
rrnm Tnc London .ncllalor.

From The London Spectator.
Hcauy +, result If race, Of circum- lnoes, such
Il, ucr~,la freedom ana mOuo oi If. and O continuous
diet, not o intelligence, aud eil ie- OF ih' acquisition
0f knowledge. which latter ctu only benefit i' ma
before study j, even begun. man "f q woman ~
hcrt, hi or her ficc and mental habii"dc, th"Hfn s
~, M ,n@lc 'ntH i 'i c,ry lrd ir,n Irria,o
il may even be- doubted strange many will deem
the assertion. whether continuous education VIII pr}
even in axe, Weld uc physical result whicn We notice
the author, OF lioplls always assume a. II IL "cIV
a ,c.cntincally dcmon,irlbc consequence Of the De-"
500 "ty. The most beautiful LlhcN race In Africa
trif. in Nya,-aind whose looks even missionaries
grow eloquent and Who arc rca a. perfect ~ br"hhc
.'a,uc-. are a ignorant h,hc~, and though th,Y
have discovered Of hro have never risen - Ihc
,rhcn discovered wa, q, u0cuturcd the IaPuan
low Is yet the former appo'C hcd a. nsaty TO p'rhSc rh
beauty a. The latter doc T. P~itEe dcl"rm.S. ,n
kccncst race in Asia, and, "a, AL VINO hi"" th'H
cldcdly the uFlc-t OF 'tlnl cNII/'d mdnhHu VIM.
the lindoo, if sufficiently fci even when a, iSroT'h
Crc1-,i1u-, VINO hho" lpihlhs ana are rhlfr a,.tP"
than exceptionally intelligent are phy slcaly fau
bc,l trained people IN the world dieplay IlrAed ,om
monncSs Of Icaturc, ~ If tie great sculptor Na'uiF
m'dcng some Of the very ablc-t among them belong
TO the hat noscd. puny checked l0"-c rpcd varG,y -
III. kccuc,t race the world and probable IA" ono
most susceptible Of culture. the Je" presents i5" pes
Of beauty being usually at once hook n",cd ana nannS
checked though In physique a. III thought thdt ta'o
occasionally throws ont trdnsccndcnt example. l"c
tanned Arabs OF Egypt, VINO serm 10 POS ,,c ,,a
extraordinarily handsome. while IN lrdO the ghh',,t
Icad n, Asia a head which every artist copied "a H'
dc,I nf love belonged T. an Arab horse dealer Wit"
1-if.id. nj, trade, knew nothing No modern men oi
r,ltrc would pretend in mere pcrlc' tncas o form 10
i, IN" old t.rcci athlete, VINO intellectually wcro
rol,ably animals the Ter .crkar~ who were Igr l'
tnost pau only hard drinking soldiers. Inc hnNh
r,stc which has been cultivated for 1000 year sclu1.
,rnduccs beautiful men, ana siill schooner bcaul.
,n,n"n most prluccsacs. though sometimes dignu'u'
having h,ru Iarkcd, to tclturc~, by "A ccrlaih
nrilnnrnc>, often wanting In the poor, ana csp''aIf
thc poor of certain districts, Hike Devon ~ EhEdnu
and Arlc, ahd Mar-cIr, IN France. Devon j. Ho
Ic,f.r taught iIan suffolk, but mark the difference III
ca.,ut forms. In the last century the ablr>t men III
inrnnc T,crr remarkable for ccr'ain supcrhhlN -,
rr,7 Of which Gibbons face J. the best known anu
most absurd example. and IN oar own tlinc, HVH
nycn hereditary intellect l. constantly lpuhd az
o,atcd from good LOOKS, and even from dlstIh'u"l
.or,. of tnc ahlc,t men being externally hcaNN dHu
,r,.e and some of the abcst women iuarIcd py an
ndcnntcncss of check and chin aa II thcN had pcli
"sry,d by the finger, IN putty. No stranger ever hdH
rcnnyenu without turning round, but browning Wouu
nave uas,cd unnotlccd IN any English or AuNfidi!
crnud The air of pl steal refinement, when ], "at
cnntinuou, culture should give, !, precisely the an
when i, often lacking among the cultivated a, II !,
,Ien in many arlstocritic famllic. Indeed IhonE"
aec must mean mo.c or ic-a hereditary culture II ~
nuhtfuI If II secures beauty. II doe not IN thc Tos
ho,,,. and IN any regiment, though an 0h,cr or W.
oilI urob1bv stand FIRST, the proportion oi spenuidd
men viii be found greater among the non c0liSsioho'
than the commissioned oMccIS'