Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-02

Civ faces, wooden faces. Indian faces
On >roing back to the street cars fol-
our daily personal transportation we
were strI ok forcibly by the facial char
acteristics of our fellow Washingtenians
Blls rider S are not usually in the best
position to s 9e others. They are crowded
into little sea It's, hemmed in by stand
ersbv in narr, wv aisles. intent only on
keeninp their S. ats once they get them
street cars. S'n the other rail, are
large: they conta. in multitudes, as Walt
whitman said of another matter; they
have the amplitu6 OF time and Tor
tune.
Riders in vehicles = hat go on tracks,
said by some to be on ne out grade, put
still doing very nice business, thank
you, have full opportunh 10 give thed
fellow passengers the ION. e over.
BY taking up ones seat on the cross
bench at the front of the c AZ, one may
solemnly stare into the full races OF on
or 90 other customers, all enga geo IN tne
exceedingly solemn task of rlolng 70
work.
Once such an observer gets tn idea
into his head that their faces ar m
dianlike in character, he will fin u
difficult to get it out.
He will find support for his theory IN
an article by the eminent Prof. Carl G
Jung in the April number of the Forum.
The Swiss psychologist, in an article en-
titled Your Negroid and Indian Be-
havior." declares in effect that there Is
something in the very air and soil of a
country which nlolds the inhabitants to
the type of the aboriginals, even to the
extent of their features.
With this observation in mind we
could easily fancy that the men and
women riding In our street cars every
day have Indianese physiognomies,
hence our opening observation of city
faces, wooden faces, Indian faces.
Undoubtedly this theory may be
pushed too far 1t is manifestly impos-
sible to disassociate the monotony of
daily habit from mysterious air influ-
ences, and to say exactly where one
leaves off and the other begins
Yet unquestionably the jaw formations
of Americans are undergoing a change.
One has but to look at the photographs
taken of the Union soldiers during the
Civil War to see the difference. Com
pared with the boys and men of today
those fighting men had slender faces.
NO doubt some of that aspect may be at
tributed to the cap, which today seems
strange, but physical measurements in
all likelihood would bear out the obser-
Walton.
Today's typical face is broader, fuller,
With higher Cheekbones, and with deeper
sunken eyes, giving the entire face,
especially in repose, an Indian charac-
ter, or flavor, which is often startling.
The mixture of races. too. is a factor
which cannot be overlooked. 1t is
fairly well established that the mound
builders of Ohio must have come to this
country from Asia, crossing at the Ber-
ing Straits.
Solidity of feature was perhaps the
most striking characteristic of the old
time Indian. If observations made on
modern Indians. as they come to WASH
ington, count for anything, it would
scarcely be fair to say that the newer
types are stolid
Certainly we have seen Indians on
lower Pennsylvania avenue laughing as
heartily as any group of young white
persons fresh out of school. The braves.
judging from the smiles, had keen
sense Of humor, and were not backward
about showing it.
Habit, great molder of emotions,
restricts the facial lines of the typical