Show fHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST 4 1935 lioloaical L lerican UNBIOLOCJCAL! The Dowry la an Enemy to Natural Marriages Hence to Racial Beauty —and Here the Caricaturist in Cartooning a Particularly Unattractive by Couple Brought Together Mama’s Money Tells It At a Glanc On X " " W Sj tf J ' ‘0 - 4 ' ft- Yes Our Women Really you’ve heard it said probably you’ve tame opinion your- “The American girl is the most CERTAINLY 300 Years the world European visitors who have come to eur shores and inspected us have disagreed on various phases of our existence but they all admire the loveliness ef our women American travelers similarly at variance as to what they have found in this or that part of the world usually return with the same opinion You’ve looked 'em over yourself maybe—and though you may appreciate In the loveliness of certain fuu ORIENTAL -- individual femi- nine members of other nations you very likely have mentally awarded the mythical Golden Apple to the girls of your awn country And now if you please Science — that definitely unromantic traditionally unemotional field of human endeavor In which a shapely limb is only a nfieans of locomotion and a kissable mouth merely a o the esophagus — has agreed Science In the person of Professor 1 trap-doort- V Are Lovelier — and Science Says It’s the Result of Democracy Pins Selec tive Breeding Over BEAUTY UNDER THE MICROSCOPE Dr G G Dearer Student of Biology and Anthropology Inspects the Blood of aa Americas Ctrl— and Finds That Science Has a Reason for Her Loveliness Clf: ' S'K T" w medical ( science both and In primitive communities women squat on their haunches when weaving preparing food or by the campfire Their leg muscles are therefore long and since the hip muscles are not used in sitting on chairs benches or post-patall- were likely to be even more beautiful than their mothers It’s all perfectly sound biology whether we’ve been conscious of it or not according to Dr Dcaver Today after three centuries of this kind of natural selection aided by a Crossing of various immigrant strains Fa- Three Generations of American Life in Her Vitality I y beds they become more or leas atrophied as in simians “To a ljsser degree but still bo an extent that affects the bodily structure this is true of certain European women particularly before and shortly after childbirth Figures that look like fence- - !' is not" says Dr Deaver to men ana women “Now in America we have not practiced conscious eugenics any more than they have in Europe But we have to an extent achieved a result at least comparable to that which we would have if we had all these years been consciously matching our best - looking healthiest males with our most AMERI CAN IDEAL V The Perfect 1 1 Biologic Type of — ? Beauty Thus May Be Considered Miss Naomi Ben-ci- d Who Won First Prize in a Recent “Body-as-- a Whole" Contest in New York City ’ r - develin breeding-orga- nic opment under propitious c cumstsoces anti a care that permits health and preserva- if ' BEAUTY “Body-as-a-Who- v G G Denver of New York University very definitely considers the American girl the most beautiful in the world And more than that Science— again in the person of Dr Denver — has figured ut why It’s a subtle reason but it embodies a deep biological laA It’s because I you and you— and even you It’s because even more of your father and grandfather and It’s because in a word for a good many generations we’ve been carrying on here in America a process of what science recognizes as “unconscious eugenics" We’ve been choosing our sweet-heart- s and wives for several generations now because they were naturally beautiful— not because of any artificial ideals pot t because they bad family name or a sizeable dowry—but because they’ve been good sound human beings And thus our nation quite instinctively has been turning out daughters who by heredity and by environment great-grandfathe- T tion of adolescence and who “The African tribal women” Say Dr Deaver “are for how much work they can do rather than from any ideal of beauty” heads In the pursuit of what they — and their boy friends — consider beauty To us the bearded lady of the circus is a freak yet even in the Latin countries of today a slight feminine mustache is regarded as a sign of unusual beauty But we need not go to extremes so exotic in tracing the difference between American girls and those of other countries —even in a phase so prosaic as the economic For according to Dr Deaver — expert that he is in analyzing the hnman form and a recognized authority on its development and uses— the economic factor has also been extremely important in building up the American girl as distinct from her European sisters “As tn economic factor" he says "the dowry is extremely important Consider the familiar European candid tion under which the homely girl with e ’ dot ‘ becomes the wife and mother wherees the really pretty and shapely girl without a dowry is often forced to accept the undesirable husband or as hsppens eery frequently becomes a mistress and not a mother “Suck conditions do not make for beauty and physical fitness in children You can- - see bow this is the case Highly developed man— and unattractive wife with money Undesirable attractive girl as mistress fits and than as wife— because she bes no money— and no- children “It never takes man very many years to achieve uniform types of high beauty —and high usefulness — in domestic animals Look r fine horses dogs cats pigeons cattle chickens It is just d v vet tion socb as no other people here “Let ua roughly divide the world’ population" ha continues “into three portions The first is that of China Japan Siam Korea and the other definitely Mongolian areas As the second group we may take the and uncivilized peoples of all tha earth As the third group let us consider the peoples of the civilized white nations "The only women among w the Mongolians who approach beauty w even in the full bloort of their youth are those tf such rank and station that their mothers have been chosen for their beauty who ere not forced into marriage and motherhood before the expirasemi-civiliz- SOCIETY a in the radical sense Changes in the see or body 0 tbs human being by the Isw 0 evolution take thousands of year 7t is rather selection A Attractive Peggy Stevenson Won Content for the Loveliest Face end Figure Among American Social Regieteritea Who Entered n Charity Affair Amaxingly Girl’s MeasureThis Smart-Sa- t ments Are Almost Exactly Lika Those of the Priio-WinnPictured Elsewhere n This Page "evolu-tio- - A to-b- r jl 'ey troupe of Ubangi savages in the circus —the most beautiful woman is considered to be the one who after child- birth have care andleisnre This la true of the first group “Of recent years in Japan especially the Ideal of feminine beauty has been carried— oddly enough chiefly through the American rqoviev— from the western peoples And so they are beginning over there to have the process of selection which in America we have been unconsciously developing for some time Japan is just beginning to enshrine her beauis not yet beginning ties howeverr-an- d to make beauty at least in any wholesale way an absolute requisite for marriage an4 reproduction “In the second category —the tribal peoples of the earth— instances of true beauty of face and figure are found but these are violent assertions of Nature Insisting npon her rights what the biologist calls a ‘sport’ Among the black brown or red tribes the man thinks not of the beauty of an individual wife- he has no such ideal as we have— but of the number of wives he is able to ecause the same laws that apply to livestock also apply results are beginning triumphantly to show in the pretty girls you see on every gjdel Vtt a matter of selective breeding and ' important “Physically there is one consideration of immense importance in the care which we give to our women through Pari-eian- Chinese Girl mous in the Movies Shows the Effects of the-girl- biologically Gallic Lovelineie ae Repratanted by Francina Argal Pretty — She Approximates the Frenchman’s Ideal Which Is Mora Exotic and Lass Healthful Then the American Standard BEAUTY— AMERICANIZED Anna May Wong California - Born acquire either by purchase or conquest and to maintain “In this category a father’s will bring him so many cows or other possessions apiece His sons are for warfare —eveq the All eripples or deficients — are sold into wifehood motherhood and the bearing of burdens or if not sold at least are married off to the most likely male available under the most advantageous eircum stances possible At any rate their marriageability is judged not by the standard of their beauty — even considering that standards of beauty vary very widely geographically —but ratner by their ability to perform the tasks assigned to the women members of the primitive tribes “Now we come to the third group— the group which includes the peoples of Europe as well as ourselves “And here we find again a difference which though not so pronounced as that which divides us from the tribal peoples nor even the Mongolian races is still can through the years stretch her lower lip the furthest to contain a dinner-size- d plate In another tribe the women stretch their necks adding year after year another brass ring until theit heads in some rails with a knot in the middle or sau- cases perch as high as eighteen inches sages with strings tied around them— above their shoulders often seen in quite young European The women of many tribes of Africa women— can be accounted for by the lack and Australia tattoo their faces in weird of such and post-natcare as designs with the idea of increasing their America gives its women as a matter of attractiveness to men Chinese and course women for centuries bound Japanese “When the fundamentally vigorous their feet in childhood to keep them and - southpeoples of south-eentreastern Europe learn to give their small — and incidentally useless for women proper rest and care after childwalking — iq accordance with an' Orienbirth their average unshapeliness will tal idea of beauty an idea that is abhorrent to the European or American disappear in a generation or two” Ideals of boauty in women as Dr and besides is not biologically sound Deaver mentions vary quite a lot in In Europe and America s woman’s various parts of the world Among some hair has long been referred to as “her African tribes —as most Americans crownipggloryu!! buttbe women of some know through the appearance of a other parts of the world shave their nfrik(i lilt tti rntini gjvtflatM m Msrgit Synio Won First Priso in n Hungarian Bennty Contsst—How Do Yon Think She Compares With the Average American Girl? - pre-nat- al K at-ou- e beautiful healthiest females In fact the democratic tradition has been doing this for ns aD along “Little or no consideration is given the dowry requirement in America The unattractive whatever her fortune girl often more or less early determines to devote herself to a career other than marriage or motherhood — and remember that I am always talking about the average There are many such careers open to her in America which are open in no other country She does so devote herself and in the main— though I suppose the psychologists have ground for disagreement there — she is content At least she does not reproduce — again in the main— her unattractiveness “The same is the case with the physically unattractive male Of course we have many cases in which rich often elderly mostly biologically-unat-tractiv- e males marry lovely biologically - attractive females The same is true when the sexes of the participants are reversed But though we hear a lot of such cases they are extremely rare as compared with the unions of natural selection — in which g young men marry pretty girls merely because the young men ara good looking and the girls are pretty" Dr Deaver considers that in patronizing beauty parlors and going in for athletics American girls are responding to their men’s ideals In the latter activity they are helping the biological trend But quite as important as any of these considerations Dr Deaver points out has been America’s immigration policy and her traditional status as “the melting pot of nations” “The Vikings homing brought their choice of the women captives" he says “We bene£t by that in the beautiful and statuesque blondes of our northwest Chivalry from the days of King Arthur gave women a certain preference and demanded of them a dignity and a charm to match We reap the harvest today in our English Irish Scotch ahd-Welsh descendancies Teutonic women were their men’s helpmeets from the days of Tacitus and were valued in return "All these types and many others— the dark beauty of the Latin countries the vivacitf of the Gallic the alluringly aloof quality of the Nordic the exotic attraction of the Near East-ha- ve been blended even in' a relatively few generations in the American girl “So in a completely scientific sense good-lookin- we bave-qu- ite unconsciously-develop- ed in America the most beautiful woman the world ever has known Be very sure that reasons for her beauty exist-f- or nothing in life exists without reasons “We still are carrying on albeit still unconsciously these same laws of 'naturally eugenic’ development I should like to be alive one hundred years from today to see our women of the fourth generation hence" And boyi Wouldn't tout |