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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



SHORTER ARTICLES 



THE SPANISH AMERICAN TYPE 

 The twenty portraits reproduced 

 here are those of Central American stu- 

 dents taken in a haphazard way in a 

 Costa Rican government college. The 

 composite photograph expresses well 

 enough the features common to most 

 of them: the large, dark, dreamy eyes 

 and the relief of both mouth and chin. 

 It may be considered as a good illustra- 

 tion of the Spanish American type. 

 Mexico receives an increasing American 

 element; Brazil and Chile are some- 

 what Germanized; Argentine is flooded 

 with Italians-, in Central America, the 

 race, the habits and the language are 



still comparatively free from foreign 

 admixture. 



By foreign I mean exotic. A stream 

 of Indian indigenous blood flows in the 

 veins of a large number of Central 

 Americans. It reveals itself here and 

 there on some of the faces which sur- 

 round our central picture. 



Aside from that occasional modifica- 

 tion the Spanish American is not un- 

 like his Spanish cousin. His features 

 are those of the Mediterranean race. 

 His skull is dolichocephalic. His 

 body is slender. The stature is variable 

 although generally inferior to that of 

 the Baltic race. The circumstances 



Composite Photograph giving the Type of the Spanish American Student. 



