The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-29
FOLKS OF THE FUTURE
THE MEN WILL BE BALDHEADED
AND THE WOMEN WILL
HAVE Boards.
WILL SURELY De ODD FREAKS

n 0CAShtlhC IOpilCb misses W anu
Makes Prediction That 1t Is to Be
Hoped Never VIII Happen. Some
of the Things to Come.
In spite of the skepticism of the
age the days of prophecy are by no
means over, and every now and then
some scientific or medical prophet
rises up to utter predictions concern
ing the future-most of which pre-
dictions, it is devoutly to be hoped,
will never be fulfilled, says Answers.
Curiously enough most modern
prophets are unanimous in believing
that the men and women of the fu-
ture will be very ugly to look upon,
and will lose many of the redeeming
features which now make them pas
SADLY handsome.
According to Prof. Kromeger, a
German, for instance, 5000 years
hence all males of the human species
will be completely bald-headed. 1t is
assuring to know, however, that
women will retain their beautiful
tresses.
Only One Toe, Too.
According to DR.. Clement Lucas
we are likely to become a one-toed
race In an address which he gave
on one occasion before the Royal
College of Surgeons he stated that
our big toes have undergone an ex-
traordinary development, while our
other toes, not being so much used in
walking, are tending to become
smaller.
"If the world goes on long
enough" said DR.. Lucas, in perhaps
half million years the useless outer
toes, being less and less employed,
may gradually disappear.
Happily, we shall none of us be
alive to see the change.
Another prophet, Mr., Brandt, of
Copenhagen, has an even more horrid
vision of the future. 1t is his opin-
ion that most of the women in years
to come will have flowing boards and
long mustaches!
Already SprOuting Them.
NJ. Brandt has taken the trouble to
write book on the subject, in which
he gives many arguments in support
Of his idea. He says that even at
present quite ten per cent of women
have sprouting mustaches, only we
do not notice this, as the ladies are
very careful to pluck the hairs out!
He says, also, that the change will
come very slowly and that a race OF
bearded women need not be expected
before a couple of centuries.
A we'll known doctor recently made
the alarming statement that only
about 80 per cent of our present pop
ulation have normal eyesight, and If
things go on as they are going now
he foresees a time when practically
the whole of the British nation will
be a nation in spectacles. a.,
How to Avoid Catastrophe.
The doctor thinks that the best
way to avoid such catastrophe
would be to give children only oral
! lessons in the early days of their edu-
cation. When Lessons are written they
should be done by the teacher on a
large blackboard in very bold style.
The late Dr. Forbes Winslow, the
! famous specialist in mental diseases,
! held that the increase Of lunacy was
so great that I'VE shall be mad
world in 800 years time" But he.
also thought that it was possible that
the mad world full of geniuses-a
state of affairs which might be al
most as bad as the mad era preced-
ing it.
One Ray Out of Gloom.
Amid so much that is gloomy it is
interesting to find that there is at
least one modern prophet who proph-
sizes that a good time is coming He
is NJ. Jean Finot, the we'll known
French writer, and his prediction
concerns the future of women.
"The women of tomorrow" he
says, will wear no iewelry and will
not bother their heads about the
fashions. They will be more elegant
than they are nowadays, but they will
renounce the arts and graces-which
they owe to the men and the favors
of fate.
"The woman of tomorrow" adds
NJ. Finot, will prefer to be a perfect
woman instead of the incomplete
man"