The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-11-25
BABIES And MONKEYS,
And. incidentally, Mankind and
Several Other Kinds.
FUN AND SCIENCE COMBINED.
A Nest Amusing aud interesting.
Study as to the Sources of
Many Human Traits.
Ihor. the NinaeentA Cntarr.

TforI the Nind ecnth Crtfury.
IL IL SILL n matter Of scie ntifc discussion
whether man Is descended from Catarrhlne or
Piatyrhinc m,nkeys or from the Jcmu!pidea,
but there Is little question that his ancestors
were monkey-like, that thtg were decidedly
prognathous. tn At they wero covered with hair.
that they had long tails, that they were ar
boreal, and that they used both tho pedes and
mdnus rs hantss, the former mort than the lat
ter. Mans anc' stors, therefore, wpre very much
like monkeys they wore Slminl or Simioid,
"monkey-like'N-and. could ho SEQ them at the
present day. an Theological critic would proba-
bly, call them monkeys" without much cavil.
The Latin wo r1 sinus, whence our term "Simia,
monkey means literally, " fat or snub nosed."
This very feature, 80 striking in monkeys rs to
have become n name for all OF them. is very re-
markable in our babies. Viewed in profile. a
baby's nose will appear to make q concave curve,
.he nostrils being obliauely ~truncate. Tho
length OF the nose Is only equal to the breadth
across the nostrils. and those are remarkably
large, parted by a broad septum- During life
nothing chm ges moro than tho nose. AS the
baby grows into a child the length of the nose
Increases faster than the breadth, so the snub-
noscd baby grows into n more or less long-nosed,
and. IL may be, hook-nosed adult. The snub nose
remains o marked feature for q Ion ger or shorter
period of life-this Is a matter Of sex and
parentagc or raoes but the change Is gradual
and impe-ceptihe, generally more expeditions
In the male than IN the female, correlated with
various other characters, such as intellectual
attainments or weak constitution, and pro-
ducing somewhat different results. The change,
however, in the shape of the nose is one that con-
tinues throughout life. During maturity and
scnescence the bridge of the nose tends, as 1t did
during childhood. to become more and more
prominent: often II will become more and more
convex, 90 that extreme old age may frequently
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produce the nut-cracker type OF nose meeting
chin 80 ~noticeab bic In old people.
1t is only by a study of the face
in profile, and of the face of tho same
Individual at different ages Of life, that
the above changes can be properly noticed. The
three-quarter photographs which we leave be-
hind at the present day, faxed up by the pho
tographer's art, will be useless to the mon Of the
future as records to tell what manner OF people
we were. With lapse of time, the widening Of
the family circle. and the various Incidents of a
workaday life. 1t Is doubtful II these pictures
will be regarded with any reverence or affection
by our ~posterity from a merely sentimental
point Of view. But this would DO changed IL
photographs were, as should be all photographs
which atm to give n true picture of the face.
takn just two ~ways-profle and full face. They
would then be of scientific value; and even a
dilletante scientific amateur of the future would
esteem 2 family collection as something Of in
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"THs PICTURE OF HIS PAPA" IMPOSSIBLE.
1t is a fond delusion with visitors and nurses
that the baby is lust like It's father or mother.