Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1911 — A Race of Tenors. [ARTICLE]

A Race of Tenors.

Generally speaking, races Hying at high altitudes have weaker and more highly pitched voles than thoseUivtng In regions where the supply of oxygen Is more plentiful. Thus, In South America, among the Indians living on the plateaus, between the ranges of the Andes, at an elevation of from 10,000 feet to 14,000 feet, the men have voices like women, and the women like children, their singing being a shrill monotone.—Harper's Weekly.