The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-19
PARAeoNS OF UGLINESS.
STANDARDS OF BEAUTY-THE HOT.
TENTOT VENTS.
ChinIess MOngoIIans-CataSh Faces.
Cingalese MOnkeymen-The Hawk
bill Experimentation RivaIs-The
HOmeIiest Human Being on Earth
Probably "a south African.

Probably south African.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Thomas Carlyle predicts mat sooner or
later some proving highwayman or
I psalm-singing hypocrite will establish an
{ indisputable claim to the honor of being
the meanest man on earth. and travellers
4 may be equally successful in discovering
an evident ne plus ultra OF physical turpi-
I tude. Il might even be said that ihe
standards Of physical beauty are. on the
whole. less doubtful than those OF moral
/ loneliness. The old Roman philosophers
! expressed an unmitigated contempt for the
saints Of the early Christian church. and
the PaDuan Islanders consider it an act
I of religious duty to knock out the brains
of their decrepit parents. but Herbert
! Spencer's Principles of Physiognomy'
seem really to reveal the secret of a pre-
| dilectiOn which is more or less recognized
| by all nations OF the world.
The tests OF superior beauty he admits
are so Intricate that they might be easily
ascribed TO incalculable caprices. but their
analysis proves that. nevertheless, in
about nine out of ten cases, African bush
men. as well as Caucasian art critics
would be repealed by features that express
/ an unusual predominance OF the bestiaI
]
| one Of these indications is projecting
snout with big carnivorous teeth. Some
of the dragonlike sea monsters Of the fore
world had jaws yard long and next to
no room for brains. Alligators reproduce
that type on a smaller scale, and opossums
are not much prettier. but the ascending
scale of intelligence is marked by a steady
/ Improvement. In the docile spaniel the
I ancestral wolf-snout has already shrunk
! "a M In Iafs.a
OF monkeys the facial angle almost APP
| breaches tnat of primitive tribes OF the
/ human race.
/ From the skull of the Neanicr-Thal
apeman TO the Grecian ideal the progress
/ Is equally regular; but the masterpieces
I of classic sculpture combine "A small and
1 receding mouth with a rather prominent
( chin-the physiognomic smybol of resolu-
/ ton. II might, indeed, be questioned If
/ the bulldog type of a North British pugi-
4 nst Is nan as repulsiVe as the IDIOT profile
/ Of chinless dude, and the typical Aztec
faces that combined a defective chin with
/ a receding forehead must have inspired
/ Herman Cortez with the conviction of his
ability TO clean out 7.j6O.OO0 such apes with
spanish sOdiers-of whom, by the way,
only 10 had muskets
The only pretty items in the make up of
an Aztec head were the smooth raven
black hair ana the fine cut lips. but when
I those redeeming features were modified
by an admiXture of African blood the re-
4 suits We're often irresistibly grotesque.
I ON the markets of TampicO. Vera Cruz
and BUebla / have seen faces that could
1 have made the fortune of a photographer
/ IN the service of a comic periodical. Dur
1 ing the tow years of the French usurpa-
/ uon the workshops Of the Puebla arsenal
/ were IN charge of an American supern-
ttudent whose family occupied little
/ villa in recr Of the government rcserva-
/ ton, and l remember the effect Of the
sudden appearance of a Chfuaco fruit ned
/ der on the porch of the little garden cot
/ tage. The superintendent younggter q
BOY OF or years, was eating a supple
/ ment or his breakfast on a rustic bench
! an the shade or an awning, and the first
/ impression of that orane-outang face lit-
/ orally knocked him over with laughing
/ Hush up there, YOU little rascal whis-
! pered his mother, enforcing her admoni-
/ ton with a good kick, hut she might as
1 well have tried to stop the commissions OF
/ an eIileptie In spite Of bitten lips ana
| choking haRdkerchiefs 1.-THE paroxygnd
! broke out again and again, and at last
! became 50 infectious that the material
milias herself had TO beat a retreat into
/ the adjoining parlor. Gone in here. Won
| crazy Kid. she called out, as soon as she
had mastered her own emotions: don't
you Know you should not hurt that poor
| But glance at the visitors face proved
the Supernuity of such scruples With
/ me leather strap of his basket sluug
| across his forehead aud his shoulder
! pressed against the corner post Of the
/ porch, he stood staring, with a look MS
utterly, devoid of intelligence as that of.
wooden OK.
Father Hue, in his Thibetan memoirs
/ mentions Chinese philosopher who in
/ Weighed against water drinking as a nrar.
elCe unworthy OF a human being because
/ a iondhess Tor tea aud roy IA sort Of boiled
/ Wihe) was one Of the habits that distin-
gulshed man from his brute fellow rroa-
lures. Win q similar logic the Botocudos
or the Brazilian backwoods insist thai nd
self-respccting man should appear in pub
lie without a ROOd-sixed lip-DltIp 1--WE
want 1t clearly understood that we are no
Dush apes, SAID one OF their chieftains
when French missionary suggested The
propriety of disseminating the preposter-
Gus reformation. Children under years
are exempt from the obligations of the
hereditary custom, but at or soon after
his 1th birthday boy is taken I'm hand nv
surgical expert and has his lower Iip
split from cheek TO cheek parallel with
the mouth. ana is expected 10 wear a no
toque, or cross stick, intended to keen the
wound from healing. BY means of weights
and strings the lower Lip is pradtiail.,
drawn forward and downward till II MO
trudes like the proboscis of an antbear
| exposing the front teeth of the lower
jaw.
The effect may be imagined whom n SCOUT
is added TO that stereotyped grin. or when
the proprietor Of the botoqlie removes II
tongue through the slit of his supplement
tary mouth. Tho torture of the ira nsifiot,
period must resemble that Of n Chinese
girl with her feet in the toe-sereVy and ~.
exposure of the teeth is said TO result in
their premature decay; but considerations
Of that kind are outweighed by the undoni-
dbit- idtA tHht monkeys. IN q state of
ture. must forego the distinction of a pen
dulous lower lip.
The women of koula, on the Upper Nile
also perforate their lips, but IL ert a stick
at right angles with the line of the mouth
and keep it in place by knocking out a con-
pie of teeth. For symmetrys sake the up-
per lip too, has to be elongated till its tin
approaches the extremity of the ornamen-
tai projection, and ambitious individuals
acquire TIE knack Of twisting the conse-
quent proboscis in all directions, a per
formance which DR.. Monatt confesses 10
have disconnected him in he midst of more
than one religious sOlemnity.
A contrasting style of beauty is that of
the Northern Mongols, whose catfish faces
so shocked the nations of Eastern Europe
that their horror may have had something
to do with the military successes of the
Huns. Shrewd leaders, like King Attila.
availed themselves of that circumstance
by putting the ugliest old koumiss toner's
in the battle front, and several historians
of the conquered nations explained the
panic of their countrymen by the state
rent that the race Of the victors owed its
origin to a liason Of demons with the sa-
tyrs or panther cats OF the Monaghan step
pc. Jornandes, in his Chronicle of the Wis
igoths," quotes that theory as in accord
ance with pretty well established facts
and adds that those who did not save
themselves by timely flight risked 10 he
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