Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-09-06
EnucArloN AND neAurY.
they are Natural Enemies-The Uglines
Of Royalty.

They are Natural Enemies-Tho UShness
OF Royalty.
II may even be doubted. strange as
many viii deem the assertion, whether
continuous education viii produce
beauty, whether the growth of intelli-
Rence viii even In ages yield the physical
result which we notice the authors OF
Utopias: always assume, as if it were 3
demonstrable consequence OF the new
society.
The most beautiful black race IN AZ
RIGA, tribe in Nyassaland, on Whose
looks, even missionaries grow eloquent,
who are really as perfect as bronze stat
ues, are as ignorant as fishes, and,
Ehol Oh they have discovered the use Of
Are, 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 APP
preached as nearly to positive beauty as
The latter does TO positive deformity.
The keenest race in Asia, and, as all
who know them assert, the strongest in
character, the Chinese, is decidedly the
uQliest of. mankind; while the Hindoo,
if sufficiently fed, is, even when as igno-
rant as an animal, almost invariably
handsome.
The Circassians, who know nothing and
are rather stupid than exceptionally in
telligent, are physically q faultless race,
far more so than the Germans, who,
though the best trained people in the
world, display q marked commences
Of feature, as if the great sculptor Ma
ture had used good clay, but taken no
trouble about the modelling. Some of
The very ablest among them belong to
the fat-nosed, puffy-cheek, loose-lipped
variety.
The keenest race in the world. and
probably the most susceptible of Gull
lure, the Jew, presents few types of
beauty, being usually at once hooked
nosed and fabby-cheeked, though in
physique, as in thought, that race oc-
casionslly throws ont transcendent ex-
amples. The tanned Arabs of Egypt,
who seem to possess poor brains, and,
Of course, have no education, are often
extraordinarily. handsome; while IN
1860 the grandest head in Asia, head
which every artist copied as his idea of
Jove, belonged to an Arab horse dealer,
who. outside of his trade, knew moth
ing.
No modern men of culture would pre-
tend, in mere perfectness of form, to RI
val the old Greek athletes, who intel
lectually were probably animals, or the
Berserkars, who were for the most part
only handwriting soldiers. The royal
caste, which has been cultivated for q
thousand years, seldom produces beau
tiful men, and still schooner beautiful
women; most princesses, though some
times dignifed, having been marked, as
to features by certain ordinariness Of
ten 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 remark
able for certain superhuity of flesh, OF
which Gibson's face is the best known
and most absurd example; and in our
own time, intellect, even hereditary in
tellect, is constantly found ASSOCIATED
from coed looks, and even from dis
tinction, some of the ablest men being
externally heavy and gross, and some of
the ablest women marked by an indef-
niteness of cheek and chin as if they had
been carved by the fingers In putty.
No person ever saw 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 give,
is precisely the air which Is often lack
ing among the cultivated, as it is also in
many aristocratic families. Indeed,
though caste must mean more or less
hereditary culture, it is doubtful if it Sc
cures beauty. 1t does not in the royal
houses, and in any regiment, through
an officer or two will probably stand
first, the proportion of splendid men
will be found greater among the nom
commissioned officers. Science can no
more make Circassian than a one-leg-
ged race, and the physical attributes,
like the grace of God, are independent
of thinking. If they were not we
should some day have a race of heroes
indeed, stalking among lesser men as
Kingsley depicts his Cloths stalking
among the far more quick-witted and
better cultivated Alexandrians. An en-
tire race like Alexander the Great, the
man in whom, of all mankind, brain
power and physique were united in tn cir
highest perfectness, would soon be
more intolerable than the Venetian"
aristocracy whom Mr.. Disrseli derided,
denounced, and worshipped.-Specta-
tor.