v, p. 327). The
common use of powder among the women of dark-skinned peoples
bears witness to the existence of the same ideal.
Stratz, in his books _Die Schoenheit des Weiblichen Koerpers_ and
_Die Rassenschoenheit des Weibes_, argues that the ideal of beauty
is fundamentally the same throughout the world, and that the
finest persons among the lower races admire and struggle to
attain the type which is found commonly and in perfection among
the white peoples of Europe. When in Japan he found that among
the numerous photographs of Japanese beauties everywhere to be
seen, his dragoman, a Japanese of low birth, selected as the most
beautiful those which displayed markedly the Japanese type with
narrow-slitted eyes and broad nose. When he sought the opinion of
a Japanese photographer, who called himself an artist and had
some claim to be so considered, the latter selected as most
beautiful three Japanese girls who in Europe also would have been
considered pretty. In Java, also, when selecting from a large
number of Javanese girls a few suitable for photographing, Stratz
was surprised to find that a Javanese doctor pointed out as most
beautiful those which most closely corresponded to the European
type.
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