Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
BEAUTY AND EDUCATION
Interesting Description of the Personne o.
Various Nationalities.

| Beauty is result of eli cumstances, such
as personal freedom and mode OF life and
OF continuous life, not of intelligence and
still less of The acquisition of knowledge,
which latter CAN only benefit the indivId-
ual whose features are fixed past serious
change before study is even begun. A
man or woman who inherlts his or her
face and mental habitude, though it may
greatly affect lis meaning can nc mere
alter its shape than assiduous trainl" 6
can turn a smooth fox terrier into the
wiry kind from Airedale 1t may even
be doubted, strange as many will deem
the assertion whether continuous educa-
ton will produce beauty, whether the
growth of Intelligence will even In ages
! yield the physical result which we notice
the authors of ULoplas always assume, as
| If it were a scientifically demOnsyratable
consequence of the new society. The
most beautiful black race IN Africa, a
tribe of Nyassaland, on whose looks even
missionaries grow eloquent, and
! who are really as perfect as bronze statues
are as ignorant as fishes. and though they
have discovered the use of fire, have never
risen to the conception of clothes of any
kind. The Otaheltan when discovered
was as uncultured as the Papaur now is;
yet the former approached as nearly to
positive beauty as the former does to posi-
tive deformity. The keenest races in
Asia, and as all who know them assert,
the strongest in character, the Chinese, is
decidedly the ugliest of semi civilized
mankind, while the Hindoo, if sufficient Y
fed Is, even when as Ignorant DIS an AMI
NAL, almost invariably handsome. In
Circassians who know nothing and are
rather stupid than exceptionally lnieil-
gent, are physically a faultless race
far more so than the Germans.
who, though the best trained
people in the world display
marked commences of feature, as if the
great scuIptor-Nature- used good
clay, but taken no trouble about the mod
cling. Some of the very ablest among
them belong to the fasnosed, puffy cheek
ed, loose-lipped variety. he keenest
race in the world and probably the one
most susceptible to culture, the Jew. pre-
sents few types of beauty. being usually at
once hook nosed and habby checked,
though in physique, as in thought, that
race occasionally throws out transcendenG
examples. The tanned Arabs o. Egypt,
who seem to possess poor brains, and, Of
course. have no educa' ion, are often ex
traordinarily handsome; while in 1860
the grandest head in Asia, h ad which
every artist copied as his ideal of Jove, be-
longed to an Arab horse dealer, who ont
side of his trade knew nothing. No
modern men of culture would pretend, in
Greek athletes, who Intellectually were
were for the most part only hard-drinking
cold Th,, ,11ll lNo,Y
cultivated for 1000 years, seldom produces
beautiful men, and still schooner beautiful
women; most princesses, though some
times dignifed, having been marked, as
to features, by certain ordinariness often
wanting in the poor and especially the ,
poor of certain districts like Devon in Eng !
land 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 a certain su-
pelfnity of flesh, of which Gibbons face
is the best known and most absurd exam
pie, and in our own tine intellect, even
hereditary intellect, is constant Y
found dislocated rom 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 indefniteness of cheek aud
chin, as il they had been carved by the
fingers in putty. No stranger ever saw
Tepnyson without turning round, but !
Browning would have passed unnoticed IN
any English or Austrian crowd. The air
of physical refinement, which is what CON
tinuous culture should give, is precisely
the air which is often lacking among the
cultivated, as it is in many aristocratic
families indeed, though caste must mean
more or less hereditary culture, it is
doubtful if it secures beauty. 1t does not
in the royal houses; and in any regiment,
though an officer or two will probably |
stand first, the proportion of splendid men
will be found greater among the non-com
than the commissioned officers |
Everybody who is smoking cigarettes
ought to know that he is probably robbing
an old man who will some day bear his
own name, unless bad habits Kill him
Done r.