New-York tribune., 1867-10-12

dCvrlopment cannot be too highly commended. TO per
suade women to give up fashion Is more diilculi Dut
tIrc bas Cen some improvement i'm the fashions them
selves Of late years But sti there IS the custom OF
clothing the body urcquay, so that the breast ana te
arms and legs arc not kept well guarded lnst SUD
den changes the weather the other parts Of the Doy
The effect Of this Il Is 70 produce congested star W oo
blood The Of fine wheat -four In newly-Daked con
dOn brings on dyspepsia indigestion ana eosIl.tn,iss i
Girls put 10 school TOO early ana IN every p3ti9
their education is too stimulating and exciting Tor c
orauiZation reform must alsC e effected IN the nOtOs
OF the object OF marriage ana the qaues ms mail w
sought for in wife. Instead or the slender foiI Sa
oped body, good health a sound constitution ana
knowledge of domestic duties be the qualities most pre-
The paper was very concise and able presentation OF
his views, TO which the above abstract hastily prepared
Quite an interesting discussion followed the reading Of
this paper Tie Hon Amasa Walker opened ~ ne ne n
Allen and stated that to his mind the great mistake W
the ne was that the women or the day were aDsur7y
educated that in system Of female education more
attention was given the study Of Greek and Latin,
and the higher branches Of mathematics which were
duties lie did not believe that girls should be taught to
read and talk Latin before they could make eonora-
bic loaf Of bread or decent pudding
Mrs Caroline H. Dali did not exactly like the sentl.
ments of Mr. Walker and said So She hoed tltt nl9
remarks would not DO msCOnstrued, as no sentiment
should 60 ont from this Association that would tend 70
interfere with interrupt the WORK now DelR u9e ~
the direction Of female education: HonanS Tn m @
Lain and Greek would learn these studies so that
She might be able to say in five minutes II 1t was re-
to press The great trouble that womans muscle
was educated uniformly with her brain IbeIe was
in the higher circles disaso for household labor ana
for any branch Of work This must be dSspated Deloe
anything can be accomplished Neither inc m,uoJ % & htr
classes despise and frOwn upon IT,
Mr. Walker explained that in his remarks his intention
was not To depreciae education, but TO call attention 10
the misdirectiOn Of it in the case OF women;
Dr. H. B. SoTer, one OF the foremost ana most zealous
workers in the reform OF antiahOrtiOn, added lew
words TO those Of DE- Allen In his paper TO make the SUD
| ect as emphatic as possible
Mrs Dr. Young of Lowell declared that her inyestiga
ton physician OF the cause OF the diseases o1 woman
had taught her that not so much from her style Oh
| his vital force dcgeuerHtcd ana WeakeHed' -
Two or three others spoke on the subject under con
sideration but brought very new ideas or slg-
gestious Tho subject was then dropped I0r 'he tlle
DE- Edward Jarvis Of Dorchester then read an interest
ing and able paper on tle GoRpapavG p NaT I hay hat IL IL
City and Country" lie recltcd the dNlhe MAXIM tiat
is not good for man to be alone ana sd tat nsV
ITf aUgs s o i h part Of any person or family
is manifestation OF some mental or moral oDnqlly, OF
the result Of peculiar circumstance which Is neither
volnntarily encountered nor willingly endured from
choice The families Of the earth not willing to live
out sight reach Of each other NcghDOrhOOd Is dc
sirable and almost necessary; ana the closer Is te
richer the blessing that accompanies ~, AleI
stating the manner which villages and then cities were
formed, and the which operate 10 make one Guy
larger than Others he states the general law that ctes
have natural tendency to increase not only by excess
Tho county fbo latter benS AT the same time part Of
isnatural Increase In 20 years in Massachusetts, the
districts gained 40 per cent In the United States the
gain of cities 1865 per cent and the rural gain Was
25 per cent in the same period from i8iV 10 iSo W
represented by l745 and 1871 per cent respectively LOT
city and country In the southeast tho figures eoI ana
81 show the prOporOnate increase The States west
of the Alleghaes and north OF the ONO River gained
457 and 1853 per cent in the same TINS the soutWes
ern States 2261 and 1865. In all the above examples
the larger number shows the per cent OF increase OF
cities containing over loCCe people IN he t%o dGGade
Massachusetts In town OF over lOVpl people, IN
cent: in 1865 495 per cent The same dsproportion
growth exists in other countries In England the large
towns increased 1897 per cent IN the 40 years IRON 1901 10
1870 and 463T per cent IN the ensuing 20 years. The
rural population during the periods increased but
in large towns in Scotland 10 the whole population in
creased from 249 cent N eO to $40 per cent Bel
GUM Prussia Austria Bavaria, Baden, Sweden aud
France also brought to tic stand TO testify to the
same law. The last instance is very marked; During
cent. the country 80 per cent. Paris in so years
i9S per cent The population in all France is
doubled years in 40 large towns IN 50 years. In
Paris in % years The population OF cities increases not
density for given space as LOCO in all France ana the
number for smaller but determined extent M Gf
in the city than in the country on Its own basis
Thus; - go .-, Gar. ,,
Ess: . 4i @ r, e FL e: :s :5s 5 i. @ 5
or TO state it in words, whatever nay have been the
76 per cent and in Paris 76 per cent IN Is years
The cities live at the expense OF the country Families
cOmers from the country TINS was ilustratedD by
the case of Paris where IL was estimated by WHtcr IN
were probably 1000 who could trace their families n
that city back 200 years. or the 100000 pe0pt living IN
TO 900 900 in centuries had dwndled down 10 1000
According TO Price, 10000 and according TO Hume 5000
iatiOn Of London up to its number
The tendency Of Pop912,n, TO T rs SeSy Nam o2
fctufes, wealth. and learning But another question
Ms Who I 20 tbns crowd toeether iis is not new GGcs
tom II is referred the annual reports OF the Regis
gssnsIal Fs SSaSry O In q s the G S Genera rPodd
that the people of districts living in England wide apart
experience low mortality ana tlcir mortality increases
in proportion as their dwellings are brought ia closer
proximity rms opinion Is p9rht out ly Hl 5u'sequeht
reports. The report for 1856 divides England INTO two
classes as TO density Of population. In the first
quarter acre Of land, tho deaths were at the
rate of 26J in 1000 for year. In the second class where
considered an overestiinate table condensed from
OF these reports shows that the mortality steadily de-
population IS less crowded Thus: The aver
age rate OF mortality in Is districts where each person
had from O4 TO 00 OF an acre, was 22 TO OOJ OF pOpu
atiOn. Sixty districts where person had one to two
acres show Of pa In four districts where there
were but one person 10 the rate 175.
rate was 100 TO each 10 600 Of population large number
OF other examples given OF this rule.
Nearly all the causes of death are more efficient In the
dense than the sparse populations yet the efficiency Of
some increases more rapidly than others with the con
from an English report is inserted to show tins fact OF
Of death, beside old age, only 10 produced
greater proportion of deaths tho country than in the
city, produced the same and all others showed greater
per centage in the city. Consumption produced 70
Der cent feyers, 25 per cent; diarrhcal diseases,
g6 per cent, and cOnyulsions, l55 per cent more
Zymote diseases in the city exceed those in the country
by 70 per cent nervous SO per cent lung 40 per cent d
so In all classes together 40 per cent more died IN
the city than in the country The city i especially de-
strucye TO children is shown by abundant statistics
as well the fact that the mortality IS widely different
in different parts Of the same city The general law de-
duced from all these statistics Is that the more closely the
population live together. the smaller their hOd Oh NE
and the greater their danger of death.
whether this condition is Inherent and unavoidable The
construction of cities is here dwet uPon and the fact
itary advantages smallest and the waste ana min