Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-02-21
The Work Of Nature.

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called savage races that one would e1
pect to find physical perfection; ID
enlightened communities the mind is
trained at the expense of the body.
In the very center of the globe g
surf4ce, reckoning th the equator a.
a division line between north and
south and the Greenwich rotations
east and west, there lives a race OF
beings who have ver,table paradise
for home and very intelligent minds,
combined with almost perfect ply.
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The Samoan Islands have a Climate
which is conductive to languor and
inactivity, yet their people are busy
race. Tney do not labor much dur
ing the day, but IN the early morning
hours they vie with each other IN
fishing, rowing and all aquatic sports,
also gathering their susteuance from
the great height of the cocOc4nut tree,
Car yIng large lunches OF bananas,
and countless other duties, all c4lcu-
lated to develop 6ue mu-cles.
The S,moans nave been kept prac.
ticsJ y unspolled by the great proaFess
of our Wanted civIllz alton; their Is
lands lie out of the way of the great
thoroug fares of the world and IL is
only within comparatively recent years
that attempt has been made to utilize
their natural facilities In a CONNER
cial way. 1t Is not known just when
or in what manner the islands were
first inhabited, but it is a conceded
fact that the Hawaiians, the Ssmoans
and the Maorls OF New Zealand were,
in earlier years, one people occupying
the same islands.
II seems incredible that such people
with little or no idea Of navigation, no
snips but their long canoes and no
Idea of the geography of the earth's
surface, should have become spread
over such an area of space. The
Maorls tell IN all their old legends of
their people, tired Of the battles
among Aelghborlng tribes, setting
forth for new lands, sailing long dis
tances over terrible seas and finally
landing 10 the lovely land OF New
Zeaiand. As to their proves on
water 1t ia truly remarkable far out
at sea, perhaps hundred miles, you
will pass as you 90 In the great
steamer that carries one to these
lands, little white winged canoes fly
Ing before the breeze like a strange
bird.
Neither the Maori nor the Hawa-
Ian has preserved the free untram-
meIed lite OF the Ssmoans, and with
other labor other climate and less
natural existauce has come a steady
and gradual decline of OF their phys
zeal perfection.
The Samoan youth is in his prime
at IS; he is strait as an arrow, broad
of shoulder, with loose muscles that
change with every posi- ton his color
Is rich mahogany brown, his features
straight and though, perhaps, some
what heavy, are rarely. coarse. Tue
hair is coal black and lies in great
waves. the despair of the fairer races.
Their voices are exceedingly rich; in
song they have the effect Of some
deep instrument, such rich, btll-like
tone prevails.
The women are beautiful and in
glory of perfection at IA or Is years
OF age. Their features are delicate,
their hair is black, wavy and very
long, d their limbs are round and
beautiful.
Their lives among themselves are
very happy, they are moral, very
kind, generous and thoughtful, while
their dispositions amicable aud loving
as child