| Show BECOMING THAT AMERICANS ARE developing ON THAT LINE in faces to the aboriginal type A study of heads with especial attention to the ecal dents of pennsylvania it is an extraordinary question in anthropological science which has been propounded popularly of late the influence of environment upon the race resident in the united states must in the course of four centuries produce certain marked and undeniable physical results it is not generally acknowledged by american anthropologists that there is a tendency of reversion to tha type indigenous to the soil but foreign students of race with more perspective have offered interesting food for reflection A writer in the chicago times herald commenting on the assertion of the french authors eliat on this continent the american white man has varied toward the indian type offers a supporting study which is curiously fascinating possibly vastly important first the familiar the jurists turis ts creation are called in as witnesses tho hankee and thi large and loose limbed of these pictures are types even as the stout full faced john bull is a type found in another environment both american favorites of the cartoonist have high cheek bonc s and usually excellent straight koscs those witnesses are not of course eciek admissible the faces given vt by tho caricature makers are imbres biens not testimony lio wever is the study offered of the pennsylvania germans a happy thrifty frugal people who have been subjected to american conditions for nearly two centuries very little intermingling with other races much less than the english people ID new england or in virginia it is true that the pervasive and beguiling irish huic intermarried inter married somewhat with these old pennsylvania settlers but in tho main it is a very exclusive pure blooded palatinate stock Data havo been secured relative to a largo number of school children and to adult males from 20 to 50 years of age and many copies of portraits of original settlers it appears that stature increases and that other important generalizations may be made tentatively of course the increase of finger reach is marked and the head measures aro important por tant tho anthropologist places considerable value upon certain proportions or relations between measures says the student of the subject thus the length of the head and the breadth cf the head when compared give numerical expression which is called the cephalic index to find it tho length is divided into the breadth and the result multiplied by A head one half as wide as it it long would have au index of 50 one three fourths as wide as long would have an index of 75 one cs wide as it was long would have an index of there is no race whose head is normally noi mally so wide as to leavo an index of or so narrow as to have one of CO the higher the index of course tho broader aa sounder the head the lower iho index tho longer ard ar d narrower the head germans generally are notably round headed pinard To gives for borne of lorraine tho index of the average index of pennsylvania germans is which is notably less and narrower the heads of our northern and eastern indians are still longer and narrower we cannot at present make a further comparison with profit what wo havo already said roay provo erroneous when we learn tho actual palatinate type we assume now that tho palatinate germans acro of medium stature light haired blue rr light eyed round headed with a finger reach of wo find that tho german children are dark in hair and that the men aro probably of in creased nt aturo that heads appear to bs lengthening that arm reach appears to be increasing in all these respects the pennsylvania german varies som the assumed palatinate typo and in ho of the indian if our assumption proves valid we may claim that our evidence shows change which if con tinned may forin an indian type the german all abi p U must bo noted is absolutely from any of the reasons for discussing the tendency of americana to revert to original types from the infiltration of the red indgin blood itself in the veins of the white race from tho days of the old french and indian wars fireside tales of new england intermixture of that sort hao been common enough A recent novel has expressed the country knowledge in new england that there is an occasional streak from ancestry that approached new england from tho west as well as that which approached the cast across hc atlantic in the western states and territories the great numbers of halt broods whose descendants find their way jato the life of cities brings to bear a curious and force in the development of tho fiber and sinew of tho race in north america boscon tran script |
