The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1839-06-01


ilton, Esq, Acluary of the Franklin Institute,
Philadelphia.
Finally, if any gentleman intends to clear from
twenty to fifty acres of woodland this spring or
early in the summer, in the western or north
western parts of Pennsylvania, will he please to
inform me OF the fact as soon convenient.
Journals Of the weather also for the 10th, 18th
and 18th Of March, 1898, kept in various parts
of Virginia and North Carolina, are much des-
red; and if gentlemen can even tell me how the
trees are thrown down indicating the direction of
the wind, the information will be highly valuable,
and should not be withheld if moth ny is known
OF recollected.
| am, gentlemen, yours respectfully.
..-... JAMES p. EsPY.
Philadelphia, .2prl 2, 1880
THE COMPARE 1--WE BEAUTY OF NATIONS.
The comparative beauty of nations will proba-
bly, be a matter OF dispute until the worlds end.
Custom, taste, circumstances and necessities,
form the standard of national beauty. 1t is noto-
rious that the African admires thick lips, corpu-
lence, oily skins, and deems black the perfection
of color, if so it can be called. The Chinese,
whose eyes are formed, in his Tartar state, into
two Sits, by gazing on the alternate rosts and
fire of the Tartariansands, thinks the large Euro
pean eye disagreeable. The Frenchman wor-
ships the drum-shaped forehead, turned up nose,
and pair Of eyes the color of rappee. With
every foreigner, brown, varying from the color OF
to cohee-grounds, is the original
color of Eve in Paradise, and is Indispensable to
all living loneliness. With the Englishman, the
lily and the rose, the red and white, by natures
pure and cunning hand laid on, are essential to
beauty. 1t is fortunate that diversity of taste ex-
lists, and that each man most values the beauty of
his own country, because it is obvious that this
diversity of hue and color is the necessary result
of time and climate. The burning sun Of Africa
and India, by natural process, blackens every
complexion. Even the more temperate glare of
Southern Europe necessarily embrowns the cheek;
the features too, are the formation of circumstance;
The bending of the African brow, the deep-sunk
eye, the projecting lips, and the high cheek
bones, the palpabe result of the natural effort
to escape the glare of a fierce sunshine. The
eye equally delicate perhaps in all countries, is
in all the chief object of projections; the whole
Of the features seems to exist solely
for the purpose of protecting the eye. 1t is re-
markable that the same effects are produced in
cold countries, and in countries brolling under the
tropical sun. The, Tartar, the Lapander, and
EsquimauX, have all the same height Of cheek
bone, projection Of brow, and narrowness of eye.
In every country Of the earth, the man of the
nigh lands, exposed to storms, is narrow-eyed
and high-cheek- boned. There are, of course,
exceptions; there are African tribes with European
features Some Of the East Indians have fea-
lures formed on classic models, but we speak only
of the great classes of mankind. In every in
stance, the more temperate the climate, the less
exposed the national physognomy is, by dress or
to the influence of sun and air, and
the less glaring the sky, the more perfect is the
development of the human countenance. All
these advantages are papably in favor of England:
the temperate climate, the colored sky, the general
absence of harsh wids, and even the habiual hat
or bonnet, which shades the eye, are all in favor
OF the soitness, shapellness, and bloom of the
English physiognomy. The French peasantry
have no protection for the female head in gene
raj, except the little twisted handkerchief, which
leaves the eyes and the whole face exposed to
the burning sun, and in the course Of few years
makes the skin the color of Russian leather,
Thus English beauty has the natural right, at
least to be the lovelincss Of the European world.
1t is true, that beauty, even in England, is rare;
but this is evidently owing, in a great degree, to
the extraordinary mixture of the English blood,
during the last century. Our colonies have
spoiled our national features; the population is
mingled hourly with the sun-burnt physiognomy
of the West Indian, the soot-colored skin Of the
Asiatic, and the Tartar physiognomy Of the Ca
madam. We have kept ourselves clear of the
Negro blood; but the progeny of the half-caste
and the Creole make fearful inroads on the ma
tional countenance. 1t is chiefly in the retired
districts of England, that the original beauty Of
the English countenance is discoverable and there
it sometimes exhibits specimens of very high
Blackwood.
Neao Remedy for deafness.-ln a communica-
ton in the Lancet" from Mr.. Curtis, tn Surgeon
to the Royal Dispensary for diseases Of the Ear,
who from his situation must have had great ex
perience in this line of practice, an account is
given Of the employment OF q new remedy for
Diseases OF the Far, the value OF which has been
exempliied in several cases After remarking on
the prevalent mistake that these diseases are in
durable, and the consequent neglect OF them, to
which he attributes the greater number of cases of
deafness, he observes that one o! the principal
and most common causes of that malady is def
cheney on the natural secreton arising from
want OF action in the cerumlnous glands, on ro-
moval of whic the deafness generally disappears.
For the purpose of effecting this, Mr. Curtis has
lately employed solution of kreosote, the appli-
cation of which does not cause any pain or smart