Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1890-08-17
EDUCATION AND BEAUTY.

Some lkamples which Go TO show ~
They Are Natural Enemies
Il may even be doubted. strange q
many will deem the assertion, whether
continuous education will produce
beauty, whether the growth Of intelf
gence will even in ages yield the physi-
cal result which we notice the authon
of Ctopias always assume, as II it were
a demonstrable consequence of ths
new society.
The most beautiful black race n
Africa, tribe in Nyassaland, on who's
looks even missionaries grow eloquent
who are really as perfect as bron,s
statues, are as ignorant as fishes, and
though they have discovered the ~
of fire, have never risen to the concep-
ton of clothes of any kind. The Otar
heitan when discovered was as uncul
tured as the Papuan now is, yet Tho
former approached as nearly to poi
tive beauty as the latter does to pol
tive deformity. The keenest race h
Asia, and as all who know them assert
the strongest in character, the Chimes,
Is decidedly the ugliest of mankind,
while the Hindoo If sufficiently fed h
even when as ignorant as an animal,
almost invariably handsome.
The Circassians, who know nothing
and are rather stupid than exception
ally intelligent, are physically fault
less race, far more SO than the Ger
mans, 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 taken no trouble about the model
ing Some of the very ablest among
them belong to the fat nosed, puffy
checked, loose Tipped variety.
The keenest face In the world, and
probably the one most susceptible q
culture, the Jew, presents few types a
beauty, being usually at once hooked
nosed and iabby checked, though in
physique, as In thought, that race occar
sionally throws out transcendent az
amples. The tanned Arabs of Egyp&
who seem to possess poor brains, and
Of course have no education, are oftsn
extraordinarily handsome; while iA
1850 the grandest head in Asia, . hsaA
which every artist copied a. his ideal a
Jove, belonged to IN 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 athletes, who IN
tsllectually were probably animalS q
the Bersekars, who were for the most
part only hard drinking soldien. Ths
royal caste which has been cultivatsa
for . thousand years, seldom produces
beautiful men, and still schooner bsautk
ful women; most princesssA though
sometimes dignifed, having been mark
cd as to features by . certain ordinaEi-
ness often wanting In the poor, and
especially the poor of certain distrio@a,
like Devon In England, and Aries and
Marseilles In France. Devon b no bst-
tsr taught than Suffolk, but mark ths
difference In peasant formA
In the Last century the ablest msn b
Europe wess remarkable for . csrtah
supssduity Of flesh, Of which 0ibbonS
fAss b the best known and most ahapa
example; and In our own tina ints,Iss4
even hsreditary intellect, d constan1ly
found disoclAtsd nom good Iooha -
svsn from distinctioa, sons q ~
ablsst msn beins sxtsmAlly hssvy -
gFoa, end sons of The sblsst voon
MARKED By IN lnds6nitsnsD q ohsGe
and chin - 4 thsy had bssn carved -
ths angsn IN patty. No stsanU1 svgB
NV Tsnnyson without turning rosn
but Browning vosld hAvs pansd -
sseIs:d = sag n,sii1A = A.suan