RACHEL 



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RACINE 



V. Straight or Wavy Hair, Dark Eyes 



18. Ainu 



19. Polym 



20. Indonesian 



21. South American. 

 VI. Straight Hair 



22. North American 



23. Central American 



24. Patagonian 



25. Eskimo 



26. Lapp 

 IT. Ugrian 



28. Turkish or Turco-Tatar 



29. Mongol 



Population of the Earth According; to Race 



Consult Haddon's The Wanderings of People; 

 Deniker's The Races of Men. 



Related Subjects. The reader who is inter- 

 ested in the details of this subject is referred 

 to the following topics in these volumes : 

 Anthropology (with list Ethnology 



of peoples and other Evolution, subhead 

 related topics) Descent of Man 



Archaeology Geology 



Ethnography 



RACHEL, ra'chel, the favorite wife of Jacob. 

 To win her he served her father (Laban) seven 

 years, "and they seemed unto him but a few 

 days for the love he had to her" (Genesis 

 XXIX, 20). Offered Leah in her stead, Jacob 

 had to serve La- 

 ban seven more 

 years. Rachel's 

 elder son was 

 Joseph, beloved 

 above his breth- 

 ren; her younger 

 son was Benja- 

 min, "the little 

 one," born in the last stages of the family's 

 long journey from Mesopotamia to Canaan. 

 After the birth of Benjamin, Rachel died. She 

 was considered the tribal mother of the north- 

 ern tribes of Israel, and when they were car- 



TOMB OF RACHEL 



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ried into captivity, she was represented as being 

 inconsolable in her grief (J t n niiah XXXI, 15). 

 This passage is quoted (Matthew II, 18) in the 

 account of the murder of the innocents by 

 Herod: 



A voice was heard In Ramah, 

 Weeping and great mourning, 

 Rachel weeping for her children ; 

 And she would not be comforted because they 

 are not. 



RACHEL, rashel' (1821-1858), one of the 

 greatest of French tragic actresses, was born 

 in Switzerland of Jewish parents. Her ival 

 11:11110 was ELISABETH RACHEL-FELIX. She be- 

 gan her career at the age of four, singing on the 

 streets of Lyons. 

 When she w a s 

 nine years old, 

 she and her elder 

 sister sang on the 

 Paris streets, and 

 their voices, crude 

 and rough as they 

 were, attracted 

 the attention of 

 the director of a 

 school of music; 

 he took them im- 

 mediately under 

 his protection and 

 gave them in- 

 struction. Mile. 

 Rachel, however, soon lost her singing voice, 

 and began to study dramatics with Saint-Au- 

 laire, a noted actor. In 1836 she became a pu- 

 pil at the Paris Conservatory, and the follow- 

 ing year made her first professional appearance. 

 Her debut excited no great attention, but in 

 1838, in the Horace of Corneille, she won a 

 gratifying success. In 1855 she toured the 

 United States, but her voice was impaired, 

 and the venture was not a success. She died 

 in 1858, of tuberculosis, and was buried in 

 the Jewish section of Pere Lachaise, the most 

 famous cemetery of Paris. Her best roles were 

 always those in plays of Racine and Corneille, 

 and her interpretation of the leading part in 

 Racine's Phcdre has never been surpassed. 

 Within her special range the portrayal of hu- 

 man suffering Rachel has, perhaps, never had 

 a rival. 



RACINE, rascen', JEAN BAPTISTE (1639- 

 1699), one of the foremost writers of poetic 

 French drama. He was preeminently a trage- 

 dian, and the presentation, in 1667, of Andro- 

 maque, the first of his seven masterpieces of 



ELISABETH RACHEL- 

 FELIX 



