The Thames Star. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1912.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10200, 1 May 1912, Page 2

The Thames Star. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1912.

EDITORIAL. _ 4^ THE FINEST RAGE.

A great diversity of opinion seems to exist among prominent mien regarding the relative merits on the physical side of the races of thte world. The late Lord Ledghton, according to an article in the "Strand Magazine," said thrift the nearest approach to the Gredk female typo was the modern Englishwoman of tine upper arid middle da«ses. But Professor Blergmirnin, of Munich, says that tha natives of Samoal ai'e the most baaiutiful race in the World, and thait the people of Switzerland and Scandinavia, as well as those of Ttja.ly and Turkey, should be placed before the British in the matter of comeliness. Mr Frank Dioksee die famous artist, says that he cerainly does not. regard the British raicie as beautiful, and Sir William Goscomixs John, 8.A.. l>elievesj thait the southern Italians are the finest people in the world. Dr. Harrison Petrie awards" tliio palm for men to the Spanish peasants, and for women to the Venetians of the working class Mr Eugene Sandow, who has a claim tcf speak authoritatively, says that the British people are superior to all other rates in the power to; perform physical feats, and that next come the agile and/ energetic Japanese. Profoi&sor iMterediih Grease, on the other hand:, states that at the last Olympic! Garnies. Avhen the athletes of a dozen different coulntrk.'a marclied before thle King, "the unanimous opinion wals th-ut the British contingent was by far the poorest specimen present, both in physique and in deportment." Sir Ernest Shaokletoni, who sjays that he has i visited ovfary Gauntry in the world, from the South ,Sle|ais to CHiina, declares that "fee diances are:—'taking even Italy—that when one sees a. ■beautiful Vvtonvan' walking along, she. is either English, or American." The editor of the "Sitrand Mngnaine" summarises the opinions thait. have ibteoav 'offered in an interesting note. He says .that thd men of Italy amd the womipju, of .Biritain siecuv'e tine majority of the vtiites. The iSicandinaivian nations stand high on the liat as regards both SHxes, and the Turks and the French aire selected more tlian once. 'The Germans are n.ot mentioned exoept in. disparagement, wliile the Ainericaiiis are 1 quoted generally as ;\ race that is" improving rapidly. But the people vho have not bson favoured in the wiwparisonn can console thiemselves by th<? reflection that tlie jury may be biased.