other elements of the population, goes along with certain other
features of the dolicho-blond temperament that indicate that this racial
element had once been for a long time a pastoral people inhabiting a
region with a humid climate. The close-cropped lawn is beautiful in the
eyes of a people whose inherited bent it is to readily find pleasure in
contemplating a well-preserved pasture or grazing land.

For the aesthetic purpose the lawn is a cow pasture; and in some cases
today--where the expensiveness of the attendant circumstances bars out
any imputation of thrift--the idyl of the dolicho-blond is rehabilitated
in the introduction of a cow into a lawn or private ground. In such
cases the cow made use of is commonly of an expensive breed. The vulgar
suggestion of thrift, which is nearly inseparable from the cow, is a
standing objection to the decorative use of this animal. So that in all
cases, except where luxurious surroundings negate this suggestion,
the use of the cow as an object of taste must be avoided. Where the
predilection for some grazing animal to fill out the suggestion of the
pasture is too strong to be suppressed, the cow's place is often given
to some more or less inadequate substitute, such as deer, antelopes, or
some such exotic beast. These substitutes, although less beautiful
to the pastoral eye of Western man than the cow, are in such cases
preferred because of their superior expensiveness or futility, and their
consequent repute. They are not vulgarly lucrative either in fact or in
suggestion.

Public parks of course fall in the same category with the lawn; they
too, at their best, are imitations of the pasture. Such a park is of
course best kept by grazing, and the cattle on the grass are themselves
no mean addition to the beauty of the thing, as need scarcely be
insisted on with anyone who has once seen a well-kept pasture. But it
is worth noting, as an expression of the pecuniary element in popular
taste, that such a method of keeping public grounds is seldom resorted
to. The best that is done by skilled workmen under the supervision of a
trained keeper is a more or less close imitation of a pasture, but
the result invariably falls somewhat short of the artistic effect of
grazing. But to the average popular apprehension a herd of cattle so
pointedly suggests thrift and usefulness that their presence in the
public pleasure ground would be intolerably cheap. This method
of keeping grounds is c