arity of the North German woman is
notorious; an uncharming person. Why? It has nothing
whatever to do with race. The growth of the Hanseatic cities
brought great wealth in North Germany; money-bags married
money-bags; the result was a people of severely plain
aspect. There are not many money-bags in America, although
there are many money-bags in the hands of a few.

American Men Marry for Love.

The American is insulted if mention of dowry is made in his
wedding arrangements. He marries because he loves the woman
and she him. Hence, the American people have become
exceedingly beautiful. Then the facilities for divorce
presented in the United States are an important factor in
the beautification process. Love is really at the bottom of
it all--not money-bags or race, but love.

The French are always talking about _l'amour, l'amour_; but
really there is no _amour_ there at all--people generally
talk most about what they haven't got or don't know. Yes,
indeed, so rare is _l'amour_ in France that it accounts for
the decline in facial beauty of the French woman--not in
movement, for in movement she excels the world, but in face.
Rome and Greece were ruined by treating marriage as a matter
of business.

Complementary to Dr. Reich's praise of the American woman's beauty is his
criticism of her love of domination. In that characteristic he reads the
doom of America. We quote his reasons from the New York _American_:

Nations differ in nothing so much as in their women. The
French, English, or American woman is easily
distinguishable. The American woman is totally different
from the English woman. So is the French woman, though the
difference in this case is not so intense; so is the German
woman; so is the woman of Italy. The American woman, while
differing from all her European sisters of to-day, bears a
marked resemblance to the woman of ancient Sparta. The
Spartans resembled the present-day Americans; the Athenians
were like the English.

I do not blame, I do not praise; I only say, and I say
emphatically, that the American woman is not womanly; she is
not a woman. The whole of the United States is under
petticoat government, and man is practically non-existent.

In America, woman commands man. Man does not count there.
The last man that came to America was Chris