New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-18

one may see Norwegian and Swedish with faces
which measure from six to ten inches the jaws
with thick neoks and arms as large round baby.
This Is the gross. and purely physical. The bread Of
these people Of barley rye. hard and black often
part Is OF bark The Vandels and other northern
people who invaded Rome in such swarms lived on the
same kind Of bread. People whose bread does not
tain proper proportion of glnten cannot perpetuate
themselves There is doubt but unboted wheat for
steady and desirable increase Of population. superior
to any other Many who wished to this bread have
found great difficulty in procuring good and have baked
1t in an unlesvened state. The trouble Is that In rails
ing it, the bran part will get sour before the -four rises
What is called Boston brownbread is an attempt u
correct this ard it contains sugar or moiasses II
not good The true way Ia to raise the -four by itself
and when the batch is ready to knead, add proper
proportion Of bran, when both will rise together. A
little experience will enable woman to make the
lightest and best bread that can be imagined
The deficiency of men In New. England is accounted
for BY saving that the young go West, or to sea-
There is something in this but it is not all the truth
Really fewer males than females born. Degeneracy
in people always shows itself by superabundaDce OF
females Nothing is certain than that the system
Of poygamy sustains itself by an excess Of female
births
At this very hour. let one 60 to any New. England
town, or indeed, wherever the New.Engand people
have settled-in Cleveland Toledo. Detroit, Chicago
Milwaukee or St. LOUIS as well as in all small hour
ishing towns-and he will find the laborng people Ia
be foreigners, mostly Germans. They lead humble
lives; they early and late whA they earn they
carefully save they educate their children and seek
every honest, honorable way to get along. With the
Al has ba
ers to do the labor his orefahers used to d. and be
lives simply his energy. The time has passed
when New England girls could do Homework. Pa
tcniy German girls take their Places the young Ger
man farmer takes the place OF the Yankee youth; and
in few years they enough to go into business or
to buy farms Of their own When married they adhere
to diet and to active industry. Does any one
know what these things mean, They mean that these
foreigners unconsciousy awaiting their tiIne 1t
certain to come. All wealth all science. and whatever
makes happy and life desirable rest for founda
ton upon labor.
surprising fact recently has come to light 1t is
that In New England towns there arc more birth:
among those foreigners who do the work. than among
those for whom the work is done. There can be but
one result: the New England New England
soil is destined to be annhilated. Elsewhere they may
appear Oucc HoIc, Lue shining Uiru u'ee
into the water and again shows its plumes afar off
The signs OF decay long have been visible. The pale
complexion the chest and the fanced inability
to labor place their vitality. notwithstanding theiI
learning upon a level with the ignorant refugee. The
universal tendency to consumption the fruit Of modern
habits and families wonder why they connot be spared
for the great usefulness they have prepared themselves
tor Happy IL that woman and that family who through
what they think adversely are Obliged to labor.
Consider the fact OF learned and popular divine not
daring stir of the house for weeks because th
wind is north east and yet the TO which he look
Is rusted fast Or Of another with national Teputa
ton changing his clothes five times day 10 meet The
changes II the weather. AT the same time they wh'
earn their bread and who disregard wind and storm
perhaps have not change OF garment.
II is very doubtful whether what am saying will IL
the least affect the Of the New England people
Individuals undoubtedly will heed the lesson, and
glimmer OF these things happily may flash upon IN
generation which. through the might OF labor des
incd to occupy the place Of the proud people about u
pass away. y. Z. NJ.