The Cairo bulletin., 1914-05-16
ALL MAY Be FREAKS
Dire Conditions Predicted for
Mankind by Scientists.
All the Males VIII Be Bald Headed
and All the Females Bearded-Hu-
manity to Be Ualier With
Only One Toe.

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-Inost of which predic-
tons. 1t is devoutly TO be hoped, will
never be fulfilled. says London An.
swers.
Curiousiy 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 viii lose many of the redeeming
features which now make them pass.
ably handsome.
According to Professor Kromeger. a
German. for instance, 5000 years
hence all males of the human species
will be completely bald headed. II
is reassuring to know, however, that
women will retain their beautiful
tresses.
According to Dr. Clement Lucas, We
are likely TO become a onetoed 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 extraordinary de-
yeiopment, 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. Lucac, 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, M. Brandt of Co
penhagen, 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
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 sproNting mustaches, only we do
not notice this, as the ladies are very
careful to pluck the hairs out, He
very slowly, and that race of beard
ed women need not be expected before
a couple Of centuries.
A weil-known doctor recently made
the alarming statement that only
about 80 per cent of our present pop
citation have normal eyesight, and IL
things go on as they are going now
he forecasts when practically the
whole British nation will be a nation
OF spectacles.
The doctor thinks that the best way
to avoid such a catastrophe would be
to give the children only oral lessons
in the early days of their education
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 we shall be mad world
in 300 years time" But he also
thought that 1t was possible that the
mad world would give way eventually
to world full OF geniuses-a state
OF affairs which might be almost as
bad as the mad era preceding it.
Amid so much that Is gloomy it is
interesting to find that there is at
least one modern prophet who prophe-
sizes that good time Is coming He
is Jean k'ingot, the well-known writer,
and his prediction concerns the fu-
ture OF women.
The women OF tomorrow" he says,
will wear no jewelry and will not
bother their heads about the fash
ions. They win be more elegant than
they are nowadays, but they will re.
nounce the arts and graces-which
they owe to the men and the favors
of fate.
The woman Of tomorrow" adds M
Ffnot, will prefer to be perfect
woman instead Of an incomplete man."