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Show How the High Cost of Living Is Bringing Back Fairies FAIRIES science now is sure really did exlBt There is truth behind all the stories of them that have delighted nd frightened children for ages Only they weren t quite the kmd of people that the fairy books make out They were science believes prehistoric dwarf races of Europe usually swarthy and mischievous They were swarthy small and prankish because for gene rations their race had not enough to eat They had in fact like Peter Pan never grown up And being still children they behaved like children. It was the memory of these little people and this name given them by the Irish is scientifically literal that crystallized into the stories of dwarfs kobalds pixies and so on in the fairy stories The really Interesting part of all this however is that American Medicine the famous medical journal says that the fa ries are com ng back to earth and through the causes that originally produced them English anthropologists and physicians says American Medicine have noticed for a long time that the prehistoric, small dark types which were sub merged by the Celtic and Teutonic invas ons have been reasserting themselves numerically and have also been I percolating back to the areas from which they were driven by these bigger fiercer blonder immigrants Much of th s s due to tl e more perfect adjustment to the climate of the oldest stocks tnrough hundreds of millenniums of survival of the fittest whereas the last Invasions have brought in types which are Just enough unfit for the new climate to lose ground in proportion to the rest The big blonds are -not dying out by any means Indeed they might be increasing and their control of national affairs is stronger every decade perhaps but the smaller darker types are ap parently getting more numerous In special positions which kill off the more recent Teutons The pigmies on the other hand are apparently small sizes of all tl e types which make up the population tl ough no exact observations have been made of their physical characters No one knows what causes such variations but we can well imagine a thousand things which may happen to check growth and as the un fortunates are largely in the lowest social classes we are Justified in suspecting disease and underfeeding as the most common "Very small or dwarf specimens are found in every species and In every litter of pigs there Is a runt Tl e phenomenon Beems to be universal and there is no reason to doubt that dwarfed types have appeared in England ever since man was man If he was too little to lold his own in those fierce days he perished Copyright, 19H by tho Star Compai if too b g he was likely to become too aggressive and to be laid low by strategy As a fact prehistoric skeletons of one locality and time are remarkably uniform as also are the modern savages of one tribe In modern civilization on the other hand size has absolutely no Bearing upon the survival for no matter how little or how big a man is he can find some way of making a living and some climate which will not hurt him Industrialism fur nishes innumerable opportunities for little men who have sufficient Intelligence and they do not have to resort to tailoring shoemakmg or servile attachment to the more efficient big men Their numbers ought to Increase and perhaps they are increasing through out northern Europe which has formerly been fit for only the big types but now puts subsistence within the reach of millions of little men some of whom cannot even shoulder a gun to keep out nvaders If the dwarfish types are not g fted with enough m elllafence fcr skilled labor thtv are in a pit able condition for they cannot do hard laboring work. A big Imbecile can shovel dirt but the little man can not prosper without brains These stupid dwarfs clothed in rags and begging an existence are the most pitiable sights in London Will America furnish pigmies when the price of food advances to the high relative level of Europe? We have always prided ourselves on the good phy sique which comes with our more liberal feeding but there is a suspicion that we have seen our best days We are beginning the successful importation of meat from Argentina and it stands to reason that as in London there will be some men too feeble mentally and physically to get enough of it for their children Most of our little people are foreign born but the native born are not sizing up as formerly and some time ago the manufacturing tailors reported that the demand was for smaller stees of boys clothes for ago than formerly The process of dwarfing must have been going on for some time unnoticed It is not possible to get ex act data on this subject as no records have been kept of weight and height for each year but our child wel fare folks are doubtless collecting such information for future use The matter ought to be looked into now as it is quite disconcerting to think that tl e pouring of hordes into the melting pot Is to result In under sized people as In Europe even pigmies as in London. Every immigrant may help to shovel dirt for railroads but he brings one more mouth to fill while the meat production Is diminishing It is all very well to say we will give these poor failures of Europe a seat at our table but what If our own children go to school hungry? iy Great Britain Eights Reserved. |