The mirror., 1919-10-23
BLONDS THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION
An Interesting Article Anent Nationality. Heredity Char
acterestics. Latitude. Climate Etc.
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clOudlneSS OF the SKY tn0 more
darkly pigmented the people that
live unders it. The Eskimos, an
apparent exception, are dark, as a
protection against the sun-glare on
the arctic snow during their day
of six months.
Skin pigment has a relation also
to somatic heat. The blacker an
object is the quicker it radiates the
heat it receives; the whittier it is the
slower it radiates received or
stored heat. Arctic animals have
white hair or fur for this reason,
and northern men are white; the
farther north you 60 the whittier
men are. Tropical animals have
dark pelts and are nocturnal in
habit; tropical men are black. A
Sioux Indian in Dakota is white,
an Apache Indian in Arizona is
black.
Men are differentiated into races
and thrive, develop. and reach
physical perfection within we'll
defined climatic areas. As fauna
and flora exist and persist as dis
tinct species within certain zones
bounded by isotherms, men so
exist and persist as distinct races.
Nature preserves the race that is
best fitted to a given environment
and kills off the unfit. The natural
geographical position for the black
man is, roughly. from the equator
to the thirtieth parallel of north or
south latitude. From the thirtieth
to the thirty-fifth parallel is the
zone of the brown man, like, say,
the Malay. From the thirty fifth
to the forty-fifth parallel of lati-
tude is the zone of the brunette
Mediterranean type of white man.
The zone of the European blond is
above the fiftieth parallel.
To indicate just what this would
mean to Americans of the north
European types, DR.. O'Malley
points out that the fiftieth parallel
in America passes through British
Columbia about 48O miles north of
the uppermost boundary of the
United States. The forty fifth
parallel passes near Halifax. Ban
gor in Maine, Ogdensburg in New
York. Ottawa in Canada, St. Paul,
the lower border of Montana, and
the uppermost third of Oregon.
In Europe it runs near Bordeaux,
Turin, through Bosnia, Roumania,
and the Crimea. Madrid, Naples,
and Constantinople," says DR..
O'Malley, ARE north of PhiIadel-
phia; New York is as far south as
Naples; Boston and Chicago as
Rome; St. Louis as Athens. and
Washington city is at the level of
French Africa.
Heat-zones must also be con-
sidered in a study of the effects of
climate on man. Humidity, says
DR.. O'Malley, is almost as impor-
tant as heat and light. "As the
summer heat is greater than in
Europe" he continues. 'the win
ter cold in America is severer.
Above Europe is a partly thawed
sea; above America hundreds of
miles of ice-covered land. The
European mountains are high and
they lie east and west and cut off
the arctic winds; southern and
eastern Europe is pocketed behind
high mountains. The American
mountains run north and south and
let down the cold winds. When
roses are in bloom on the Italian
Riviera, which is up at the level of
Lake Superior, the frost may be
nipping the Florida orange-groves.
which are down at the middle of
the Sahara Desert and almost with
in the tropics.
"A man from the north of Ire
land going to Philadelphia to ive.' .
says DIR. O'Malley, moves south
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