Darker Americans?
SIR.—I confess-that I can see no signs here of the dark-complexioned future Sir Evelyn Wrench fears for us, but perhaps after a winter as sunless as yours we are not at our most frightening. In another few months (we hope) the younger generation will be busily taking on a "decidedly darker hue" on all available beaches and sun-porches!
Seriously, though, the families with coloured blood who "pass" into white society and eventually intermarry, can only do so if (hey are light-skinned enough not to be recognised. How could they_affect our colouring ? As to the pigmentation of our remote descendants, I decline to worry: the danger of there not being any, coffee-coloured or other- wise, is more present to my mind these days. More than that, I am not even sure that I should object to a darkening skin, if it brought us some of the things I have admired in many Negroes; the talent for enjoying a hard life, loVe of music, and immense kindness.—Yours sincerely, with gratitude for all the satisfaction the Spectator brings us.
HELEN SARAH EUSTIS.
27 Kenilworth Drive, Berkeley 8, California.
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