The Indianapolis journal., 1904-05-15

produce in the form of woman a change
that can be inherited. Each healthy girl
or our civilization Will continue to be born
with properly proportioned waist, just s
for centuries each healthy Chinese girl
baby has continued to come into the world
with prettiy shaped feet.
That the petite and blonde types of wom-
en- are becoming less plentiful as the years
pass on is another of DR.. GiI's opinions.
The entire human race is growing larger.
The armor of the ancients is too small for
our men OF to-day. immigration is bring
ing in more and more OF the brunette races
or Europe to our domain. These, far in
preponderance over the blonde peoples, are
blending with our blood and reducing the
numbers of the fair-haired and blue-eyed
type.
Prof w. j. MCGEE. director of anthro-
pology for the st Louis exposition, is in
doubt about or becoming brunette race.
There is an opposite force at work." said
he, the bleaching of the skin as a result
or culture. Aesthetic development tends
TO whiten the skin. and the pigmentation
or the skin. hair and eyes seems TO cor
relate Culture would, therefore, tend to
produce blonde race, while vigor, on the
other hand, would help to establish a bru-
nette race. Increased vigor seems to cause
increased fermentation. and We are the
most vigorous people earth. So, you
see. there are two forces at work
American women are more beautiful
than those of ancient Greece or Rome.
our growing standard of beauty appeals
just as much TO cultured foreigners as il
does TO Americans themselves The Amer
lean girl is envied by her European sisters
because while abroad she attracts Euro
pean men,"
CALIFORNIA GIRLS MOST BEAU
TIFUL.
Professor MCGEE regards the California
girl as representing the highest type of
beauty to be found in the world. In that
State have been most concentrated and in
tensified all the forces at work TO improve
our race-especially pioneer influence and
admixture of blood.
Prof. Otis Mason, curator Of etymology,
United States National Museum. believes
that the blonde girl is decreasing among
US year by year.
THE skin. hair and eyes of the Indian
are the colors which nature loves in Amer
ica," said he Eventually we will all have
dark hair, dark hazel eyes and dark COM
plexions, depending somewhat upon the
altitude in which we live. People who live
on low ground will have more leathery
skins than those at higher elevations. The
stature of our women we'll men
depends primarily upon nutrition. The
meat-dfet people are usually tall and the
fsh-dfet people short and stout. Vegetar-
ians grow meager in body. The influences
| of our environment upon beauty may be
observed by studying the differences of our
Indian tribes. Our Eastern soil would seem
to be productive of a long nose, strong
chin. deep. eloquent mouth and full,
heavy eyebrows. The tribes of the Pacific
! had fat faces but this NAV have been due
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| to their fish Diet
| DIR. r. w. Schufeldt, the biologist, dis
cussed the question to what attributes
| different races acknowledge to bis beauti-
| full:
''It really seems that the lower the race
| in the scale of civilizations the more fixed
| and restricted are their ideas in this di-
rection. On the other hand. the majority
of the men at least. among the Indo-E
| peans, to which race we belong see beauty
! in the greatest variety of women of other
|
| But the American girl. as we'll as her
| foreign sisters of the same race, is not
beautiful in the eyes of all the peoples
| of the earth, according to DR.. Schufeldt
| The American Indian regards her skin as
| too light The black of Africa re-
| gard her nose as too long and her lips too
| thin A native of Cochin-China once spoke
| with contempt of the beauty of the British
ambassadors wife. He complained that
she had white teeth like dogs and "a
rosy color like that of potato flowers"
Thus it would seem that beauty is not
only skin deep, but that ii is without honor
| save among its own race.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
| Copyright, 19O4l