SHAPE OF THE HEAD.
Professor’s Pronouncements Excite Germans. LONDON, November 26. The Berlin correspondent of “ The Times ” says that thousands of roundheaded readers of German newspapers have excitedly read Professor Kruse’s declaration that a long head does not necessarily result from Nordic ancestry.
He declares that the shape of the head is largely accidental. If babies were laid on hard pillows, they would retain the long-shaped head with which most were born. If they were laid on a soft pillow they would probably lie continually on the back of their heads, and so become round-headed.
The Professor has also compiled statistics showing that town-dwellers are more often long-headed than peasants.
“ Kruse could scarcely have made pronouncements more calculated to stir the Nazis’ ire, owing to the slump in the stock of the long-headed. “It now remains for him to prove that blue eyes and fair hair are eqtially fortuitous, and a swarm of amateur eugenics will be forced to scuttle back into obscurity.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20483, 8 December 1934, Page 25 (Supplement)
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