, 1873-04-06
. EVOLUTION,

TO The Editor 9f The Chicago Tribune:
6tR: The intelligent foreigner is again among
us, notebook and pencil in hand. This time il
is the learned German scientist, Dr.. Buechner
who communicates to the GdrtenIaube the re.
results Of his observation upon American pc
cuiiarities at an evening party. These, accord,
ing to = late number Of the Walton, are, thai
The ladies, in the round dances, moved with 4
more gliding step than do their sisters in Ger
many And this fact he explains by thosa 1aws
OF race which gave the Indian his crafty, slen
football Is he approached the s1umbering village
in order to murder the innocent inhabitants
Not only America, but the whole civilized world
is indebted to the thoroughness Of German
scholars for the solution Of many problems, that
in all probability, would otherwise have remain.
cd in mystery unto this day.
As 3 people, We have Hospitality welcomed to
our shores foreigners Of every rank and degree,
except, perhaps, His Serene Highness OF Mech
lonburg's e1-convicts, and hare got our reward
In various ways and degrees, from American
Notes. to "spiritual Wives" but one such
find" as DR.. Bnechner atones for many pre-
vious disappointments, and will, for time,
cause us to infuse heartiness into the welcome
which will be extended to the gentlemen who
arrive from foreign parts with eye-glass on the
alert, and notebook convenient; which after
events may show to hare been hasty and il1ad-
vised.
We are certainly indebted to Dr.. Buechner for
discovery which native scholars would have
overlooked to the end Of time, perhaps It is
true that the learned Doctor ignores the beer,
and kraut, and Genue:t tlichken, which, to the un-
counting for the fact that. the belle
Of the Doctors native land is usually creature
Of less ethereal mold than her transatlantic
sisters, who, as school-girl, is, OF the writer's
succulent alate-pencil and the promiscuouB
pickle, and whose step would naturally hare
some relation to her pounds avoirdupois.
It is also, Of course, just posaible that some
OF the ladies who came within the range Of DR..
Buechner's spcctacles we're descendants Of the
old Knickerbockers, who came over in ships as
broad- -bottomed and unwieldy as themselves;
but do not wish to say anything that would
have tendency to detract from tho value Of the
learned Doctors deductions, for / nm firmly
persuaded Of the value Of the theory which
he advances, and beg humble leave to offer one
or two illustrations in its support, which have
hitherto been source Of considerable mental
anxiety to me, before the key was offered for
their unrayeling, by the opportune arrival Of
the intelligent foreigner.
satiable craving to obtain hair which has be-
longed to some one else; and why do great
many Of them bedaub their features with hide
GUS pigments7 There is not mothers daugh-
ter Of them that is contented with the quant11m
OF hair Nature gave her. How shall we explain
this startling fact? Evidently not otherwise
than by those subtle laws Of descent which make
her inherit, in modified form, the passion
which possessed her ancestor to require the
hair OF his foes. Nor is this all. The descend
to their elevated station by reason Of their sue
cess and diligence in accommodating the much.