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Show BEAUTY OF THE INDIANS OF MEXICO. The beauty-of the Indian women is one of the charms of Mexico, says the Indianapolis Sun. In the capital, where the Indian was degenerated by contact with the whites, by extreme poverty and menial service, it is less to be remarked than in the smaller towns and i; the country. But the beautiful faces one takes in memory away from Mexico are those of Indian women. Fine eyes are universal and. what one hardly expects, fine features, according to Caucasian standards; broad brows, straight noses, well formed mouths and chins full but not gross or heavy. The expression expres-sion is very generally intelligent and often one is struck, both in Indian men and women, with the nobility and refinement of the countenance. One frequently sees tynes among the peons that seem to belong to some highly civilized ancient easle. an Egyplian priest of royal blood, a Roman centurion, an Aztec emperor. The women are gently gen-tly lovely where they are beautiful and the men at ttheir best in carriage, in manners and in countenance counte-nance are strikingly like the very advanced product prod-uct of Civilization. In the north the "noble red man"' has chiefly been found in our poetn- and romance. At their highest they possessed only the savage virtues. Here in mid-Mexico, even after four centuries of subjection, the Indian i.s plainly of better make of higher ethnic development, of infinitely greater possibilities. Tt is a far cry from the Apache to the Aztec. |