Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-07-06

of the cheek bones and that of the
angles of the lower jaw and in the
well nourished approaches a char
acteristic straight sided, rather
high oval. The nose is variable,
with tendency to convex (aquiline)
| in males, and concave-conveX in
females. The hands. feet, mouth,
ears are not large, but also not
small.
In declaring that there is no
American type of either man or
woman as yet. still there is an APP
proach to such type in physiogno-
my, statute, build, augmentation and
in other directions, DR.. Hrdlicka
said that heridity is still most in
evidence, but is no longer absolute.
The old Americans are to an inn
portant degree still the English,
Scotch or Dutch of their ancestry"
said the doctor, but in part they
are already something new, com
mon, acquired III this land-they
are American. Were it possible for
this stock to breed exclusively
among themselves for several more
centuries, according to all indica-
Ftions would produce as distinct a
lnationar type as nave the various
older European nations. But in
| termarriage with more recent ele-
ments of the population is so COM
mon that no hope can be entertain
ed for any rapid progress in this
direction. Form of head, that was
supposed once to show rapid
changes, was found under the new
environment to be one of the most
persistent of characteristics.
Another prevalent notion that
finds no support in the results OF
these investigations is that of any
physical difference between the OLD
Americans of the northeast, the
Yankees, and those of the south
There is no difference of any i'm
portance. The people of the south
Fare not darker, the Yankees are not
taller. The only regional difference
in the old American stock are such
as are due to different ancestry
English, Scotch, Huguenot, etc. But
the whole strain shows a plain
tendency toward darkening of haii
and diminution of blondness.'
The long governmental investi'
alton to determine whether there /;
such a being as the typical Ameri-
can did not take into consideration
those people who are to be regard
ed as the only true Americans--tht
Indians, or Amerinds, as they are
sometimes designated. Here a type
may be found, for the essentia
characteristics of the Indian are
uniform. Above the average
height, with a tendency to over
weight after middle age, the In
dams are almost in variably of rec
or copper colored complexion, witt
straight black hair, brown eyes
high cheek bones and rather broad
faces. No one would ever lool
upon a pure blood Indian and have
any doubts as to what he was.
AS the melting pot of the white
races. however, it is not to be eX
pected that America will develop .
decided type of men and womer
who may be readily identified az
Americans from their physica
characteristics. 1t Is not surpris
ing that it required eight years Of
research to find LOO individual
whose parents, grandparents, ant
great grandparents had been borr
in this country.
But there is one characteristic
other than physical which many
Europeans insist is distinctly Amer
ican--boastfulness. They say thai
we use superlatives only in every
thing we say about ourselves and
our country and our individual and
national accomplishments. They
even intimate that we have not
been at all modest in discussions as
to who won the world war.